Good point abt why some turn to Islam in this country...
Many young black men who land in prison fill the void with the strictures of Islam, looking for what they needed in childhood...Malcolm X was one...
Unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t work out for them (Malcolm X in fact) and their women become second class citizens.
Many of the leaders of the black community have truly let their people down...could say the same abt some in the white community, too.
What I’ve hear of the Black Islamist movement’s appeal is that it religiously justifies how its adherents want to behave anyway.
IMO young black men sometimes go for Islam in the same way that poor Southern whites sometimes go for racism: it puts them in a class above many others (in Islam, women and infidels), so they no longer feel like they are at the bottom of the barrel.