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I think being able to do something for yourself, rather than have it done to you is always a positive movement. I don't know about his views on his father, but plenty of people want to start again on their own terms. More power to them.
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being able to do something for yourself, rather than have it done to you is always a positive movement
Whether to reject the parent or to reclaim agency in your own liberation by rejecting the white abolitionist, decoupling from Cassius Clay might be a positive step. To then deliberately associate with the Nation of Islam just looks like two steps back.
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Which is odd, since it was his father's name and his father was called that in honour of a noted abolitionist. There are plenty of good reasons to change your name, including wanting to disassociate yourself from your family, but choosing a name which associates you with a racial separatist movement doesn't look like a step forward.