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Life For African Americans with Islamic or African Names after 9-11 ?

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I have been living with my last name Shabazz since January-2- 1992 on my 25th birthday, I decided I was a new Man who now knew and was convinced that God had revealed my Idenity, Purpose, nd Lige Calling ! I was 9 years old when I first got introduced to Islam not knowingly ? There were this African American family in the neighborhood who dressed and carried them selves differently from the rest of us African Americans ! My friend was name Jamal and he wore a bow tie and a suit every time he went to school and he went to a Private Muslim School called Sister Clara Muhammed ! I remeber he I use to play together on weekends but I was never allowed in his house untill one day his older brother ask if I wanted ice cream with Jamal !  The first thing I noticed was his Mother and Sisters all had beautiful head scarves and they address each other as Sister ? I noticed his father Jeremiah Shabazz ( Not the Famous Boxer's Muhammad's Ali's Godbrother ) but his father was clean cut and everyday wore different classy conservative suits with pointy shoes ( Stacy Adams ) that were different colors ! He always smiled at me but never spoke to me but he always had no less then 3 Men around him like they were his bodyguards, and they always address each other as Brother ? After they got use to me coming around they felt comfortable being in there house and I noticed there was no music or TV ever playing ? The house was always quite and if you tried to listen to there conversations you could not because thewy spoke low and whisper like ? And if you did make noise his father would just look at us once and we shut up automaticaly ? At 9 years old I was IMPRESSED !

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