[Mr. Mojo]

she wants to know why [Ali], who claimed he was escaping “slavery” of the white Christianity, converted to a religion whose holy man enslaved blacks.

Because Ali, like all other American black converts, perceived Christianity to be the white man's religion, and therefore that they'd be getting back at whitey (and Jews) by converting to Islam. That's pretty much what this phenomenon is about.

[Impala64ssa]

Ali, like all other American black converts, perceived Christianity to be the white man's religion, and therefore that they'd be getting back at whitey (and Jews) by converting to Islam.
Those who do convert to islam think their "sticking it to the Man", but in reality it's one of the saddest examples of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

[stellaluna]

Exactly.