Right! Evangelical Christians scour the prisoners for new converts. Did you experience a lull in your life so to liven things up you murdered in cold blood a classroom full of kids at your old high school? Angry with your husband so you bundled your little children into the car and drowned them? NO PROBLEM. The Born Agains will accept you.

“Hi there, Degraded One! Come with us! Be part of our family! Doesn’t matter what you did to anybody. Jesus loves you and already died for you so don’t you fret none! Just swear that Jesus is your Savior, and you won’t even have to promise not to do anything like that again! You can keep right on being the total fucking creep that you are! Just have your epiphany and swear that Jesus is your SaVior and all will be well. In fact, you’ll get thru them Pearly Gates, guaranteed, while the ones who don’t believe and do good works won’t! Yep, we got it all fixed up for ‘ya. Feel better now? ”

Its no wonder the jails are full of Born Again Christians.

And, yes, I’m ranting because this “Jesus died for our sins” crap drives me nuts! Nobody can absolve anyone from sin! Personal responsibility is what cleans the slate! Try telling that to my relatives though. Thank God they live far from me in the Deep South. Thank you, God and thank you, Jesus!

Amen Aqua….people feel the need to “belong”…if others turn their backs on them, they will seek the company of others who will welcome them with open arms, trying to convince them that they NEED this need organization/group & how they will be so welcomed to join….for a PRICE.

Even if it means this “new group member” has to CHANGE their own personal point of view….to be ACCEPTED into the core group..sometimes is enough.

They had some other “Grammy nominated” dude that actually nominated himself for a Grammy, or some nonsense, even though he had to standing to do so.

All true, PM and BL! Poverty is not the fundamental issue! No matter their skin color or nationality, people with very low self esteem, who believe they don’t matter, who believe they have nothing to contribute are SO vulnerable. Their emotions are so easily manipulated by demagogues who know exactly what buttons to press.

I hear you and agree with you on everything you said, Balletlady. Indeed, MLK would be turning in his grave at the segregationist goals and purposes of the NOI. So wrong, so unrealistic, unworkable and downright stupid. Personally, as an organization I think of the Nation of Islam as the (thankfully tiny) African American equivalent of the proudly ignorant, stupid, racist Blood and Soil crowd – that thankfully tiny group of Caucasian Americans who have, unfortunately, been given a “voice” of late.

Where’s the editing feature when I need it…..my keys having been sticking lately….so damn it….SEGREGATE

What are trying to do is to SEGRATE themselves….sadly….Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King FOUGHT For EQUALITY….now they want to set things back decades.

What gives the NOI the RIGHT to talk about such nonsense….if NOI wants to separate themselves from “white society” & society as a whole…..let they BUY their own Island somewhere and go for it.

As for myself and my friends of color….we all will be glad to see NOI go elsewhere….of course giving up all their RIGHT TO THE USA BENEFITS they now receive. since they don’t want to be “part of us”.

Keep in mind people feel the need to “fit in”….if they feel accepted and welcomed whereas others have rejected them, they will jump on the band wagon full steam ahead.

Anony, keep going. Learn your basic world history from the last 500 or so years. Sub-Saharan history for the last 1,000.

You’ll understand eventually. I charge to teach what one should already know as an adult. If you are a child just continue with your general education.

Aqua, none of it makes sense. Neither the founder nor the current leader of the NOI are even African American – Muhammad was South Asian-Anglo, and Farrakhan is Afro-Caribbean and has said himself that he believes his father was Jewish!

Their plans are similarly unrealistic though, like Scientology, it’s at least possible to see how in mid-century America they might have made a sort of sense to some people.