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By Robert M. Neer

Not content with worshipping the California sun, students at the University of California at Berkeley are talking about starting their own religion.

James Meredith, the first black to attend the University of Mississippi, says he's a prophet and is going to guide his followers into self-sufficiency and an understanding of the value of work. His church, he says, will be structured "like the Catholic Church, except it wouldn't have a professional clergy; in that respect it would be more like the Mormons."

And it will cater to Blacks: "I do not coner either Christianity or Islam to be the relisider either Christianity or Islam to be the religion of Blacks--they were both originally religions of whites," he said.

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