Pulling the race card? How quaint. I take it you don't have much knowledge of your maternal great grandmother's people. Then again, you are four generations removed.
Islam fosters competition, not cooperation. Do you know what happens when you spend 1400 years with walls separating you from your own next door neighbors to prevent interaction? Not much community building and altruism going on.
NY, NY, the big gateway. English, Germans, Irish, Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican. Five of those made it out of the slums by networking. One is still there, seven decades later. Want to take a gander which? Here's a clue, primo, you don't like them either for a reason.
You do have a reason, or are you just following orders?
Call it racism if you will. Ignorance gives you the license to do that.