first and foremost, i am truly sorry this happened to "Joseph", but it is a big mistake to generalize it.
as it's being said in a previous comment to this article, "Moroccans are themselves from a diverse skin color".
statements as such,by Joseph is propaganda. i admit there are some people who'd pick on others just for the sake of it, but saying " It happens all the time, everywhere " is just false,wrong and misleading.
i am familiar with the country's culture,have friends who live there and study with foreign African students, nobody attacked nobody. then again, everywhere you go there are respectful people and bullies. don't start propaganda, don't generalize. talk about "your" experience. not everybody else's.
Have a blessed day!

It's a totally bias, agenda-led piece which doesn't serve any good, nor does it portray a fair and balanced story. Moroccans are themselves immensely diverse in color, ranging from white to black and yet Moroccan people have coexisted as one for centuries. There is however a gross misunderstanding and a great level of mistrust which has generally developed between the sub-saharan population and Moroccans, and we must explore the reasons why if we are to solve them. It is not simply a case of Moroccans being "racist", this is simply not true. Moroccans are known world wide as welcoming, generous and open people and the early sub-saharan immigrant population will themselves testify to this if they are honest, unfortunately however, a significant number of the illegal-immigrant population have exploited all that; they've cheated (fraudulent business claims), robbed, assaulted and committed numerous other violent crimes against Moroccans for many years now (http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/08/53158/arrest-of-100-sub-saharan-illegal-immigrants-in-rabat/) and as such Moroccans have unfairly begun viewing all sub-saharan immigrants with skepticism. It is a natural response. Today the hasty and malicious generalizations are being made by both sides but as far as root causes go, Moroccans are not to blame here. It is a problem however that needs addressing. People from sub-saharan countries should also appreciate that Morocco did not profit from colonization, nor does it profit today from the continual exploitation of poor countries by the developed world (and thus justifying the immigration of people from nations being exploited to the nations doing the exploiting), Morocco is rather a victim of all that too. Unfortunately, because Morocco has progressed at a faster rate than most other African countries many illegal-immigrants have not only flooded to Morocco as a gateway to Europe, but as an alternative to Europe, thus burdening both the state and native population which are both still considerably poor. This is not a fair predicament that Morocco finds itself in at all. On that note, Morocco's borders are actually sealed off from Africa at the present (sahara conflict in the south, and the Morocco-Algeria borders are closed), so one wonders how these illegal immigrants actually enter Morocco through Algeria in the first place? Many in Morocco in fact consider the mass flow of illegal-immigrants into the country as being the work of the Algerian authorities.