African Americans: Paradox of being Christian...?

Question

How can you be in the military for this country when your parents were allowed in the same restaurant as whites? How can you be Christian when you were originally Muslim before your parents were raped and separated through slavery? I'm just curious. The darker the skin, the deeper the roots but mentally and spiritually, are you guys still chained up? Oh my God, please no I feel the love, read the Bible, he died for our sins, this and that; just think before you answer. No offense to any one.

Corrections; ...were'nt allowed in the same restaurant...

Racist is to hate some one; this is historical facts. Another reason why some one would call some one else a racist is for other people to think he is a racist and alter his answer. Maybe you just want to think I'm racist b/c I'm making a good pt but it is some thing you don't want to deal with. Slavery is not your fault, it is historical and we should approach it as it was a crime against humanity.

Actually 80% were Muslim from West Africa, most from Mauritania. I don't have a white hood b/c I'm not white, I'm from Afghanistan.

A majority of those African American Muslims actually faught in the civil war for all of us to have rights now.

There is no reason to bring your big toe into this conversation, your point was smelly enough. It is sad that some people define themselve with information on paper. Go to your roots and see who you are. And becareful of facts of slavery are altered so the great devils don't look so bad.

Answer 1

I love this guy...Dead on my man dead on...All I can say is amen to you brotha no matter what your skin tone your mind is right so I call you my brotha.

I will touch on this, the mind is still chained as we search for truth in our cultureless intoxication. We try but come short. For everything we cling to was placed to be clinged upon. When will we wake up i ask, never? tomorrow? We fight our brothers and sisters for a country that did unthinkables to us yes. You are most correct

Dumb Deaf and Blind the race is

Answer 2

Segregation, "Jim Crow Laws" were a southern American phenomenon, the north did not have those laws. Not all Black Americans today have "roots" in the south and many Black Americans did not have ancestors who where slaves, they were indentured servants when they came here originally.

African Americans originated from West Africa and Islam was not a large movement there, it was tribal culture they were not practitioners of Islam.

Some of the first slaves arrived in the Virginia colony 500 years ago from the West Indies, why should blacks still be bitter? Some also were in Massachusetts, and were never brought here in chains.

The past cannot be changed, the only thing we can change is the present so that the world has a brighter future.

It's 2006 after all.

Answer 3

Uh, yeah, Jesus was actually a very dark-skinned person himself, and probably looked a lot like a modern-day Iraqi. Shocking, eh?

Have you heard of conversions..? It's when one person switches from one belief system to another. Last I checked "person" meant anyone. "Anyone" falls under the category of "all races."

Let's see, what else... how can an African American be in the military? Well, let's just pretend you're black, for a second. You went through slavery and a lot of injustice in America, but then all the sudden, people started to rebel, whites even, to get you some rights. So then you had rights. Isn't that just amazing? Now you can join the military because you actually respect the country you're in!

So yes, due to a profound sense of ignorance, your comments *were* offensive.

Answer 4

It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to Speak and remove All DOUBT! My ancestors and parents were not Muslims. Your Sanitation of Reality is an Abomination unto God! You have just shown that Racism still exist to white so-called Christians who deny it. You are a Racist Prick and a white Devil therefore you need Deliverance from your bondage of being a racist mentally and spiritually! No offense taken. God bless you for your Parents have taught you well! When you go to Hell and want a sip of water remember your ignorance.

Answer 5

If I weren't an African American Christian I would satisfy your question with a racist answer to your racist question. God is no respecter of person. He created ALL in His image. Your racist question seems to confirm the fact that YOU are still chained to your pointed white hood.

Answer 6

There were black christians before slavery and the US existed. Remember in the day of Pentecost there were Jews from Ethiopia. Remember Acts 8:26-40 with the Ethiopian Eunuch when Philip was sent to him to baptize him. Remember Jesus when Simon from Cyrene which is a city in Libya. Get the facts my friend before you flaunt the false.

Answer 7

Being someone of African descent who also studies the African Diaspora at length, I can say you are definitely wrong that 80% of slaves were Muslim, though some were. I am not in the military, so I cannot speak on that, but as a Christian I can. Of course the religion was forced on us as slaves in America. That doesn't mean I should attach myself to a belief that is practiced in Africa just because. That would make me fake-to be a part of something I don't believe in when I do believe in Christ.
As far as the man who questions being "African American". My ancestors had no choice as to whether they wanted to be American or not, but they were born African. Not to say that I want to move back to Africa, but it is part of my ethnicity and that is why I identify myself as African (I also identify as Irish...is that wrong, or is just identifying as African wrong to you??), something that Americans are obsessed with, otherwise no one would define themselves as African, Italian, Irish, Chinese, etc.
I don't understand why that's even a viable question--isn't it a person's personal decision to make how they define themselves??

Answer 8

And in that note...

Any of you "African Americans" ever been to Africa? Hold African citizenship? If you've spent your whole life in America, aren't you "American"? Any white people out there hold citizenship in Africa and America, making you "African Americans"?

Am I "European American" because my ancestors came from Europe? Am I not "Native American" since I was born right here in America?

No offense... my big toe.

Answer 9

Not an answer, I do not qualify for this, just for info.

Not all the African Americans were Muslims, most of them had pagan belief. The slave trade itself had been carried by Muslim Traders (though the trans-Atlantic passage had been dominently by Christian traders).

Answer 10

This doesn't sound like a real question - it sounds like your attempt to be inflammatory and stir up people’s emotions. Talk about stereotyping a whole group of people into one narrow-minded person’s point of view!

But of course, no offense….