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20 Nov 2019 Conversations with Tyler Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
“Some of the principles of all the faiths — it’s one of the things that I love, is that I can pull from any of those tenets and doctrines something that’s useful and meaningful to my life spiritually today.”
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…Do you think of yourself as a black Muslim the way Malcolm X was? No, I no longer subscribe to the Islamic faith. I actually haven’t subscribed to that faith in years, in decades. Some of the principles of all the faiths — it’s one of the things that I love, is that I can pull from any of those tenets and doctrines something that’s useful and meaningful to my life spiritually today. I probably study more Eastern philosophy than anything because I’m really about self-governance. I’m all about personal responsibility and accountability, and I don’t think that you have to deify that in order to be successful and to be spiritually connected. I think that it’s just a pathway to deeper learning when you don’t have the restrictions of somebody else’s dogma. The Melanic Islamic Palace of the Rising Sun — what role do they play in prisons?…
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