African American Experience

Here is a supplementary website that deals with the conversions of the African American religious experiences.

http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/conversion.htm

I am still reading Not A Genuine Black Man and it is pretty good so far. It is sad how even on his 35th birthday the people in town still considered him just a black man. Also, I found it interesting when there were two black young males in the car in the neighborhood and Brian thought it was suspicous. All of those years that he was told that black was bad, and that balck people are up to no good, he started to believe it for that one second. When he found out that the young black males were up to no good, it was almost as if his "people" failed him. He wanted to believe that those young teenagers were not doing anything bad, but they were. So it was as if everything the white people had told Brian as a child were true. I cannot imagine how it would feel to be Brian in a community where he is the only one of color, and to think that other people of color like the two young males, were foreign. It was almost as for a moment he forgot about his own complexion, because he considered himself white.

In Los Angeles the population is so diverse that it is difficult to understand this.