during the Second World War and came of age in the 1950s when everyone in America was afraid of communism or anything not American. Between the Korean War, the Cuban Revolution, and countries like Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Ghana digging deep into their wombs to start the tireless work of thawing off centuries of colonization when she came of age, my grandmother was weary of political unrest and sought agreement with the Black Christian churches who said we had to be consciously smarter than the rest. I didn’t think she understood anything about being a Black Muslim.
