"Do you do that every day?"
"I try to the best of my abilities."
"But your son didn't do that. He wasn't Muslim."
"Yes, he was. He took his shahada."
"OK, Champ, one last question" Camden used to be more mixed, but now it's almost all blacks and Hispanics. There's something about the segregation of this society, you know, that's overlooked."
"Yeah, and that ain't going away. Even when they were here, it was segregated. When I first moved into South Camden, it was an Italian neighborhood, and Whitman Park was Polish."
"Race has been in the news a lot lately because, you know, Ferguson and" the shooting just yesterday, so are you optimistic about racial relations as we moved forward?"
"No."
"No""
"Like I was saying, it don't have nothing to do with race. If you follow God's teaching, then it don't make a difference what color you are, but if you start making your own rules, then all of this stuff happen."
"OK, one last question" You said they want it this way. They want this confusion, right?"
"If you want to call it confusion, yeah, but it's a plan. There is no confusion, bro."
"But who are they?"
"Ah man, I don't know if we have time for this" It's the people who run this country, bro, the one percent. They want it this way. Nothing is gonna change."
"So you're not optimistic about the country's future?"
"No, but I don't even care about it. I hate to put it that way, because my grandkids are coming behind me, but they already know that Allah is where it's at, so they ain't got nothing to worry about either. This is nothing. What I'm doing here is nothing. It's just something to keep me focused and out of trouble, but it's nothing."
"I try to the best of my abilities."
"But your son didn't do that. He wasn't Muslim."
"Yes, he was. He took his shahada."
"Yeah, and that ain't going away. Even when they were here, it was segregated. When I first moved into South Camden, it was an Italian neighborhood, and Whitman Park was Polish."
"Race has been in the news a lot lately because, you know, Ferguson and" the shooting just yesterday, so are you optimistic about racial relations as we moved forward?"
"No."
"No""
"Like I was saying, it don't have nothing to do with race. If you follow God's teaching, then it don't make a difference what color you are, but if you start making your own rules, then all of this stuff happen."
"OK, one last question" You said they want it this way. They want this confusion, right?"
"If you want to call it confusion, yeah, but it's a plan. There is no confusion, bro."
"But who are they?"
"Ah man, I don't know if we have time for this" It's the people who run this country, bro, the one percent. They want it this way. Nothing is gonna change."
"So you're not optimistic about the country's future?"
"No, but I don't even care about it. I hate to put it that way, because my grandkids are coming behind me, but they already know that Allah is where it's at, so they ain't got nothing to worry about either. This is nothing. What I'm doing here is nothing. It's just something to keep me focused and out of trouble, but it's nothing."
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