Tamara Gray – Bringing Our Diverse Communities Together Anse
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The speaker discusses the struggles faced by the black American community during the post-war protests, including racism and the negative effects of their actions on society. They highlight the success of their Mosques in attracting conservative groups and their strong community activities. The speaker emphasizes the importance of learning from history and finding one's own path in Islam.
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We absolutely don't have a pass anymore. And had we, had we done a
better job in keeping racism out of our communities, in sticking to
original attitudes of in recognizing the post colonial
effects on our community? Had we done a better job, our mosques
would reflect America better. The best and most beautiful mosques in
the United States. I stand by this. Based on everything I've
seen, the best and friendliest and most open mosques in the United
States are the mosques run by the war Dean Mohammed movement Period.
End of story.
They have the best community activities. They feed people
they're involved in the communities around them. They have
excellent programming. Their khutbas are relative and about the
people in the room. The the social services they have are positive
and their their gender attitudes are up to date with both Islam and
open minded non colonialist thinking.
So we need to learn. We need to learn from one another. It's a
great tragedy because the Arab and Desi and Asian community in the
United States has a lot to offer the black American community. If
we could get together, if we could get together, there's language,
there's Quran reading, there's did we? There's experience. There's a
rich history of experience in Islam.
But we have to get over we have to get over the hump of does Black
History matter or not?