The Violence of Ideas - Violence of Slavery, #2

Rumi grows up in 1880s' Egypt as his father, Sharpy, extended the rights for workers in Morocco. But Rumi is plagued by ideas of violence when a person's value is demeaned. He struggles with the ideas of identity, ethnicity, and truth. Who are we? An ethnic group, a part of a social movement, the color of the skin? Frustrated by his father's work with Arabs, Rumi turns away from the ideals of his hero, the poet Rumi.
He needs action. He searches for a cause. Rumi wants to free Blacks in most of Africa. But his frustration of dealing with lies from his family drives him to gun running and a seedy lifestyle. Through a prison stay, he learns about self sustaining as a means to free local tribes from a growing imperialism. Once out of prison, his actions with a spiritual leader creates a Black Power movement that builds a sanctuary called tents or a different form of temple.
However, enemies including the spiritual leader, force him to leave Africa. His pilgrimage Hajj allows him to reconnect with Islam. He meets a Frenchman who speaks of the failed Paris Commune and the ideas of communalism. In the midst of European banking control over many lands, Rumi sets up coops to counter the bankers' power. By the time he reaches America, Rumi finds the companies of former slaves his father set up need help.
Banking interests have taken the power away from the companies. Rumi's system of coops and self sustaining create a new Black Power movement. Rumi's activism ends in a near assassination in New York, but his son, Huey is hoped will continue the struggle. Rumi fears the growing war sentiment that seems to be headed for Europe. Yet that will have to for his son to solve.