English Explanatory Dictionary

5 percenter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City.

Word forms

5 percenter 5 percenters Five Percenter Five-Percenter

Etymology

The term refers to the movement's belief that only five percent of all people understand God and consider the Black man as superior to all, leaving eighty-five percent as slaves to a ten-percent elite conspiracy that rules the world.

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