Mathematics contains universal truths, but no one needed its wisdom more than poor black men at the end of the last century. So many of us were so lost—deprived of knowledge of self, of others, of the world we lived in. Even in the Islamic world, commentaries on Muslim books were teaching that the black man comes from the grandson of Noah, who was Ham—a man who was cursed, made to be despised, a servant, a slave. That’s a myth, but it was a myth taught in both mosques and Christian churches, a myth taught to the slaves as well.
