Considering our history and past experiences with Arabs, our neurosis is dully justified. Not only Arabs, many sane black Africans view any fair skinned individual , Whites, Chinese and Indians with great suspicion. It is rooted in our history, for hundreds of years Arabs have been the architects of our miseries, like the infamous East African Slave Trade. Without a trace of doubt, history tells us that not long-ago Zanzibar was the epicenter of slave trade.
Unless you're a religious zealot who puts sensationalism over empirical and scientific fact, this relationship is like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes.