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What's really astonishing is the commitment to racialist understandings of society years after it was proven to have no basis in genetics. We don't seriously entertain the idea of alchemy in the 21st century but for some reason we entertain the idea of race.

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And yet a few American blacks have been attracted to Islam. Cassius Clay rejected his “slave name” for Muhammad Ali.

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