{"id":13661,"date":"2014-04-07T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13661"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:57:37","slug":"bling-from-whites-are-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13661","title":{"rendered":"Bling from ‘Whites are Devils’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jay-Z wearing his bling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men are the devil, the Christian God is nothing more than a ghost and only a small percentage of people understand the world.<\/p>\n

These are just some of the \u00adbeliefs behind the bling \u2014 the gaudy Five Percent Nation \u00admedallions worn by Jay Z and Carmelo Anthony.<\/p>\n

Last week, all eyes at the Barclays Center weren\u2019t on Jay Z\u2019s better half, Beyonc\u00e9 \u2014 but on the coaster-size golden pendant swinging from the rapper\u2019s neck as the couple sat courtside. Asked once if the group\u2019s symbol \u2014 an eight-point star with the number 7 in the middle \u2014 held any meaning to him, the rapper shrugged, \u201cA little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what exactly do Five Percenters believe?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rationale is that the black man is God and created the universe, and is physically stronger and intellectually stronger and more righteous naturally,\u201d says Michael Muhammad Knight, an author of two books on the radical group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhiteness is weak and wicked and inferior \u2014 basically just an errant child who needs to be corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group was founded in 1964 in Harlem by Clarence Smith, who later changed his name to Allah, a former student of Malcolm X who disagreed with the Nation of Islam over the nature of God.<\/p>\n

Smith rejected the notion of a supernatural deity and instead believed that all black men had God in them and that black women were \u201cearths\u201d who took on a complementary yet subordinate role to their gods.<\/p>\n

The idea is empowering, Knight says.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime someone is saying you have to accept your conditions of oppression and slavery and pray to an unseen god \u2014 that kind of god is just being used to keep people down and to keep people from looking to themselves as a solution to their problems,\u201d he notes. \u201cIf there is a problem, no one will fix it for you, except yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five Percenters don\u2019t consider themselves Muslim, but their name comes from the Nation of Islam\u2019s belief that 5 percent of humanity are \u201cpoor righteous teachers\u201d who exist to enlighten the masses about the truth of existence.<\/p>\n

Members will sometimes refer to themselves as \u201cscientists\u201d to drive home the search for truth. And they face a tall task, because under their belief system, 10 percent of the world\u2019s population controls the other 85 percent by spreading the belief in a \u201cmystery God.\u201d<\/p>\n

To show followers the way, members must learn the Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet \u2014 powerful tools to decipher the meaning of the universe. In both, each letter and number represents a concept, for example, 1 is knowledge, 2 is wisdom, while A is Allah and B is be, or born. The number 7 on Jay Z\u2019s pendant stands for God.<\/p>\n

Caucasians, meanwhile, don\u2019t enjoy an exalted status in the narrative of the Five Percenters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first lesson I learned from the Five Percent was simple: F\u2013k white people. Seriously. White people are devils,\u201d Knight, 36, who is white and converted to \u00adIslam as a teenager, once wrote.<\/p>\n

Source: NYPost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black people are the fathers and mothers of civilization, white men are the devil, the Christian God is nothing more than a ghost and only a small percentage of people understand the world. These are just some of the \u00adbeliefs behind the bling \u2014 the gaudy Five Percent Nation \u00admedallions worn by Jay Z and … Continue reading “Bling from ‘Whites are Devils’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[530,2439,8786,8787,8785,3609],"class_list":["post-13661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-anti-white","tag-beyonce","tag-bling","tag-five-percent-nation-medallions","tag-jay-z","tag-rapper"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jayz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13663,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions\/13663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}