ATH: Imam Mohammed "Race and Genetics from an Islamic Perspective"

Eve Ewing - a line from her Poem about Phyllis Wheatley

“If I know of Ovid may I keep my children.”

[The False but instantiated frame in this culture is that “Black people are not human”]

“There is a presumption throughout American history that continues into the present that if black people perform enough humanity in a forceful enough way appealing to logic that we can somehow win acceptance or be proven human or earn the right to move, live and breathe like human beings. The system of white supremacy built upon the edifice of chattel slavery and the genocide of indigenous peoples is based on the fundamental presumption that black people are not human beings. That is an ideology that was a necessary precondition for slavery. And it’s an ideology that I believe to the core of my heart persists in the United States today in a variety of nefarious forms [in all of its institutions]. And if you’re dealing with people that don’t believe that [blacks are human beings] that’s not a logical thing and therefore it can’t be overcome by logic.”