The question itself is fraught in current context - "While the biological conception of race may well be worth jettisoning, can we do so without discarding our rich inheritance as black people along with it?"
The question integrates a biological conception of race with the cultural inheritance distinct from biology, while deprioritizing race has no necessary relationship to the cultural heritage. Deprioritizing race (my interpretation of deracializing) has nothing to do with "losing" one's race or skin color. It is rejecting the drumbeat of selective biological essentialism for real, grounded, humane, culturally-embedded relationships.
The question itself is fraught in current context - "While the biological conception of race may well be worth jettisoning, can we do so without discarding our rich inheritance as black people along with it?"
The question integrates a biological conception of race with the cultural inheritance distinct from biology, while deprioritizing race has no necessary relationship to the cultural heritage. Deprioritizing race (my interpretation of deracializing) has nothing to do with "losing" one's race or skin color. It is rejecting the drumbeat of selective biological essentialism for real, grounded, humane, culturally-embedded relationships.