Does your Shaykh Trivialize the Oppression of Black People?

Does your Shaykh Trivialize the Oppression of Black People? 2017-09-02T11:15:45-05:00

  Which statements is out of place in relation to the others?

 

A) “The biggest crisis facing the African American community in the United States is not racism. It is the breakdown of the black family.” — Hamza Yusuf

 

B) In slavery, it was nothing for a Black woman to have a baby—she was supposed to have a baby. And the father, the Black man who fathered the baby, was never permitted to have the responsibility of a father. All he did was make the baby. He couldn’t recognize it as his; it was going to be sold as soon as the master wanted to sell it. He was never permitted to develop a sense of responsibility for taking care of his own offspring.  We weren’t like this in Africa. This is a throwback, this is a holdover, from slavery. We’ve got to get rid of it. But you’re never going to get rid of it until you get rid of the cause, and man, you know who the cause is. ”  Malcolm X

C) I would watch their faces when I told them about that, because the white man had completely erased the slaves’ past, a Negro in America can never know his true family name, or even what tribe he was descended from: the Mandingos, the Wolof, the Serer, the Fula, the Fanti, the Ashanti, or others. I told them that some slaves brought from Africa spoke Arabic, and were Islamic in their religion. ” Malcolm X


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