These figures and developments signal some progress. It is perhaps incremental or isolated progress, but these are shifts that are needed to confront the anti-black racism thriving in the country today. Layla Abdullah-Poulos, a black Muslim scholar and author of a popular blog committed to addressing racism within the Muslim American community, rebuts that far more has to be done: "Muslims need to decolonize their minds, engage in active anti-racism to purge our communities of toxic anti-Blackness." Her call resounds as the intersection of being black and Muslim in the United States becomes more dangerous by the day. This intersection is seldom addressed within the convening halls of Muslim American power.

XREF: Connects to broader discourse on intra-community racism and intersectionality in American minority politics.

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