West African Muslims who came to Harlem had “the racist stereotypes they had internalized prior to their migration…confirmed” when they arrived in Harlem and encountered poor black residents caught up in drugs and violence. These stereotypes were so “powerful” globally, that they had traveled all the way to West Africa. The question is, did the immigrants really find the majority of black people in Harlem in those lifestyles? There were definitely some. But perhaps this stereotype of low income black people being caught up in drugs and violence conditioned the immigrants to expect that to be the case. That made them look for black people caught up in that lifestyle. Maybe these immigrants were merely noticing what they had expected to find, not the whole picture of what was actually there. To what extent do stereotypes color our views of groups of people before we meet them? Is it easier for us to subjectively notice trends, (even trends that are not true for many members of that group) in those groups of people that confirm our preconceived stereotypes, rather than look at them objectively?