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<p>Indeed. In the fifteen-block radius around my workplace, I have counted approximately 17 corner stores (there are no 7-11s in the locality). Not one of them is owned by someone of African extraction; the owners are mostly of Middle Eastern descent.</p>
<p>Instead, the muezzin blares his song via stereo at the appropriate hour, and while I am trying to order the day’s lunch, the individual behind the counter is participating in his orisons.</p>