This is Karen Hunter and Gomez's book is Changing Our Country Marks,

Right, the transformation of African identities in the colonial in Antibell,

South, Brother Gomez up in New York University,

taught at Spelman for a while.

Chapter 4, it's called Praying on Debeed.

Chapter 4, Praying on to be, Islam in Early America.

Among other things, he's got a table in here,

for example, percentage of Africans imported into

North America from regions containing Muslim populations.

The Senegambia, that's Philip Sweetly's people, where Senegal is now, almost 15%.

Sierra Leone, 15.8%, almost 16%.

Gold Coast, so-called Ghana now, you know, arduous people around it, uh, 13% by the name, by the by for, that's all Nigeria now. 28, almost 29%.

What Gene just brought up, reminder from when we talked about that was these Africans who were Christianized, they forced them into Christianity, many of them were Muslims.

One of the way African Muslims hid their prayer practices

from these dumb social structure white Christians who think they Christianized

in them was to hide their prayer practices in the hymns and

when I follow my knees with my face to the rising sun that's the first prayer

today for the Muslims. That's the first prayer today for the Muslimsless, but they hit him the Christian song.

Y'all, what was that, what was that a can about a month and a half ago as you were reading through

Zoyne Hirsch that you don't know us Negroes?

Stop trying to force a hymn on these people.

Go to Congress and get them to pass laws to let us get a little bit closer to stopping it from killing us

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