Chapter Summary: Blackness In The Nation Of Islam
Chapter 6 Blackness in the Nation of Islam Summary
First of all, this chapter starts with listing seven important things that author believes Religion of Islam is about. The Religion of Islam implies to “put the black man of America on top of the civilization” (McCloud 101). People are considered Muslims who believe in Islam (McCloud 102). They are some things that they do as being Islam. For example, “pray five times daily, restrain from food, drink...” (McCloud 102). Muslims tend to memorize their holy book “Qur’an;” usually, they start around the age of seven (McCloud 102). Around the twentieth century, “‘blackness’ of Africans was seen as cursed” and after the end of the slavery, their population increased in America (McCloud 103). White …show more content…
A new description of “white” was created and whoever didn’t fit into it were denied from immigrations (McCloud 103). Christians focused on stopping black people from entering churches (McCloud 104). Curse of Ham’s story was mentioned and how black people are considered the descendants of Ham to show their status compare to whites. In spite of many tries of whites to keep black separate from them, black people still hopes that there would be a day when whites will see them as equal (McCloud 104). Father Hurley played an important role for Black people who tried to argue that “it was whites who bore the curse of Cain,” not black people (McCloud 105). Another person was Prophet F. S. Cherry who claimed that black were true Israel and white Jews were fake (McCloud 105). Islam believed that god came to earth to show the Islam religion to them through Fard Muhammad (McCloud 106). Then, “Fard taught that they were originally Muslims brought in chains to the shores of North American and they were descendants of the ‘original man’” (McCloud 106). He tried to explain the origin of their existence according to him. Since blacks were slaves, their children had little or no properties or ownership of something that was inherited
First of all, this chapter starts with listing seven important things that author believes Religion of Islam is about. The Religion of Islam implies to “put the black man of America on top of the civilization” (McCloud 101). People are considered Muslims who believe in Islam (McCloud 102). They are some things that they do as being Islam. For example, “pray five times daily, restrain from food, drink...” (McCloud 102). Muslims tend to memorize their holy book “Qur’an;” usually, they start around the age of seven (McCloud 102). Around the twentieth century, “‘blackness’ of Africans was seen as cursed” and after the end of the slavery, their population increased in America (McCloud 103). White …show more content…
A new description of “white” was created and whoever didn’t fit into it were denied from immigrations (McCloud 103). Christians focused on stopping black people from entering churches (McCloud 104). Curse of Ham’s story was mentioned and how black people are considered the descendants of Ham to show their status compare to whites. In spite of many tries of whites to keep black separate from them, black people still hopes that there would be a day when whites will see them as equal (McCloud 104). Father Hurley played an important role for Black people who tried to argue that “it was whites who bore the curse of Cain,” not black people (McCloud 105). Another person was Prophet F. S. Cherry who claimed that black were true Israel and white Jews were fake (McCloud 105). Islam believed that god came to earth to show the Islam religion to them through Fard Muhammad (McCloud 106). Then, “Fard taught that they were originally Muslims brought in chains to the shores of North American and they were descendants of the ‘original man’” (McCloud 106). He tried to explain the origin of their existence according to him. Since blacks were slaves, their children had little or no properties or ownership of something that was inherited