2024-08-30 14:40
I see a lot of discourse around what Muslims, particular African/African-American Muslims, Black Muslims are going to do this election cycle, and whether we are “black first or Muslim first.” This discourse ignores several things: 1) Muslims =/= Arab, 2) Black Muslims have been in the US for generations, in fact an estimated 60% of the slaves brought here were Muslim, so Black Muslims aren’t a new phenomenon and some families have been Muslim for generations, 3) this question lies on the