African American Lifestyle

There are many races of people out here in the world that does not know a thing about their history but will know a thing or two about their background. African Americans in particular do not know anything about their background, and most of them do not care to know. Now in these modern days it is important to know where one came from, and to know their background. Knowing ones history will be a benefit to that person, and his or her family because history is a way to success. African Americans are one of the races of people in America that is confused about whom they are. They do not know their background, because African Americans think that this is life for them and that is it. They do not realize the importance of how important of a people they are. If their original life were presented to them, majority will turn away, and the other half will come back to who they were in the beginning. While African Americans have lost their whole identity, their way of life, religion, culture, language, and education, there are those who are waking up to their true identity on a daily basis. It is a very sad thing to be living in a world for so long not knowing who you are, and where you came from. Yes, we as Africans know that we came from Africa but what part of Africa and who were our ancestors, what tribe of people are we from. African American history did not start here in America, and that is what is being taught to people. Our history started from Africa. How we lived and raised our family is totally different from how we did it in Africa. The African American people are living and raising their families the American way, which is why so many people are confused, and so much violence is in the world today. The African Americans does not realize that Islam is their way of life and background. We use to pray to Allah 5 times a day in Africa, and raise our children according to the laws of the Holy Qur’an. There are those that still do this today. If they would