No…


This has nothing to do with Elijah Muhammad. He indeed thought blue eyes were the very sign of the devil. But, you may argue, he actually said: white people are blue-eyed devils. But does this now mean Europeans were not devils when they had blue eyes and black skin? Enough of this nonsense. The thing that must be understood by all is that evolution will never fit with any kind of racist thinking. It’s a process with no direction, no designer, no purpose. Natural selection is not social selection.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...