Comments on: Six Questions For Reparations by Br. Baktra Tailar El http://www.soultic.com/articles/six-questions-for-reparations-by-br-baktra-tailar-el/ Make A Soulful Connection! Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: James http://www.soultic.com/articles/six-questions-for-reparations-by-br-baktra-tailar-el/comment-page-1/#comment-23 James Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:08:14 +0000 http://www.soultic.com/soultic2008/?p=42#comment-23 <i> “We are Moorish American because we are descendants of the Moorish Empire (Northwest and Southwest Africa) and born in America.”</i> Are you proposing, then, that black Americans descended from parts of Africa not associated with the Moors (for instance, from enslaved Africans taken from East Africa) should go by another name than Moorish American? Wouldn't that have the effect of splitting black Americans into different groups? Thanks, James “We are Moorish American because we are descendants of the Moorish Empire (Northwest and Southwest Africa) and born in America.”

Are you proposing, then, that black Americans descended from parts of Africa not associated with the Moors (for instance, from enslaved Africans taken from East Africa) should go by another name than Moorish American? Wouldn’t that have the effect of splitting black Americans into different groups?

Thanks,

James

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