“The Somalis, aren't bad folks, but [they] have come down from the trees pretty early."

[CaptainMajid]

American diplomat in the 60's after a U.S.-built water purification plant went out of service.
Casual racism

This is a pretty book detailing the early Soviet relationship.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=nf...YMKHQrJBFoQ6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=trees&f=false

 

[John Michael]

Yet the still were humiliated nearly three decades later by somalis.