A strife that has created disharmony and potentially demise.
The demon of ignorance was inculcated with the first boat load of slaves and still exhibits that disharmony up to and including today.
I began by saying that it was not by accident that racial fractioning was inculcated in the black American race, if for no more than to weaken and keep enslaved. It was applied by every means available to the slavemasters in the foment thereof.
Some examples of how this "tool" was used to actually turn a people into a "culture of tools" is discussed in the book profiled, and as to how one man saw how to overcome it, but was quickly dispatched to preclude the message of what it was to truly be a people free in mind, body, and spirit.
Some sound advice...
More medical history is found in "Medicine in Mobile" by Bobby Buck...available at Amazon.com in Kindle format.