Why are American Negroes Converting to Islam ?

 Recently, I recieved a email from my friend in the USA that his neighbor a African American had converted to Islam. I was intrigued by this and realized that a lot many Blacks are converting to Islam. We must remember thatGeorge Washington led the war of Independence and the United States became a free country in 1776. America was virgin land and the white settlers opened up the country with plantations and factories. Thus there was a need for cheap labor. To get this cheap labor, a nefarious scheme to abduct and kidnap black men was commissioned. These Blacks were kidnapped from the African continent and brought to America to work on the plantations and estates. There status was that of slaves.

The masters of these slaves were all white men who regularly went to Church and were good Christians. The priests who gave sermons from the pulpits, found nothing wrong in this slavery of the black man.  These so called men of God did nothing about this. The civil war brought no respite and this slavery continued in the deep south. But over a period of time with the advent of 2 world wars a slackening of the hold on the Blacks was evident and a civil rights movement gathered steam as the Black man bid for his rights.

The transition was not easy and white supremacy organizations like the KKK appeared who killed blacks without compunction. The sad part is that these men  were good Christians and yet the black man was discriminated against. The Christian religion has a lot to answer for the state of the Black man in America for nearly 200 years or more.

There was bound to be a backlash and now the Blacks are converting to Islam. It started with Cassius clay becoming Muhammad Ali and now it has grown like ivy.This conversion is a failure of the Christian religion which is not a white mans preserve, as it has happened in America.