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Five-Percent Nation
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The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by the Nation of Islam that was founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, by Clarence 13X, who was previously known as Clarence Edward Smith.
Members of the group call themselves Allah's Five Percenters, which reflects the concept that ten percent of the people in the world are elites and their agents, who know the truth of existence and opt to keep eighty-five percent of the world in ignorance and under their controlling thumb; the remaining five percent are those who know the truth and are determined to enlighten the eighty-five percent.[2][3]
The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches the belief that Black people are the original people of the planet Earth and are therefore the fathers ("Gods") and mothers ("Earths") of civilization.[2] The Nation teaches that Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet, a set of principles created by Allah the Father, is the key to understanding humankind's relationship to the universe. The Nation teaches that the black man, insofar as the Nation defines this race, is himself God, with the black race being a race of actual gods.[2]
- ^ Muhammad Knight, Michael (January 8, 2013). "What I Learned from the Five Percenters". VICE. Archived from the original on May 28, 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
- ^ a b c "God, the Black Man and the Five Percenters". NPR.org. NPR. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
- ^ Chandler, D. L. (June 28, 2012). "The Meaning of the 5%: A Look at the Nation Of Gods And Earths". Hip-Hop Wired. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
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