Blacks in the Arab Culture

Submitted by John (United States), Nov 7, 2011 at 11:56

If memory serves, in common Arabic, the word for a black person is "abd" meaning "slave." Doesn't that tell you a lot about where blacks fit into the Arab cultural thinking?

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