I threw out all my US history textbooks and listened to this guy. Let us remember his emphasis on the importance of historicizing through a people's perspective. What is truly remarkable about Zinn's work, from an Islamic perspective, is his documentation of Muslim involvement in slavery, civil rights, and black liberation/power eras...putting to bed the highly toxic/racist stereotype of the model minority Muslim which perpetuates anti-black/latino/a racism, US exceptionalism, and class patronage! Islam is not acquiescent to the iron fist or the crown (shoutout to House of Saud). Islam is political. Islam is transformative. Islam is justice.
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