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“For African-Americans, it’s part of their African heritage. There’s a long tradition (in Africa). ... It moves them away from the Christianity they saw as a slave religion, as the religion that legitimized their slavery.”

MANKING IN AMNESIA. Immanuel Velikovsky. page 154

A characteristic social and psychological phenomenon is taking place in the process of the black reawakening in the United States. The fourth- to tenth-generation descendants of slaves (in the case of of the West Indies only the third generation) feel a resurgence of the longing for Africa that accompanied the fettered slaves on their forced voyage to this country and and haunted the thoughts of the first generation of those working on plantations or in mines. But together with this Back-to-Africa sentiment, a strange, even pathological phenomenon takes place: the most militant among the Amercian blacks look to the Arabs as their allies and mentors.

The descendants of the slaves return to those who preyed on them, took them captives, chained them, drove them mercilessly across deserts, let them die from thirst exhausted at oars on galleys. The urge to return to the tormentor or to his descendants, to adopt their religion, and hail them as saviors is a reaction for which psychology knows the cause: a victim's children remain fascinated by the one who wielded a whip over their father...