Jay-Z’s 5% Pendant Draws Some Attention

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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 beliefs behind the bling — the gaudy Five Percent Nation medallions worn by Jay Z and Carmelo Anthony.

Last week, all eyes at the Barclays Center weren’t on Jay Z’s better half, Beyoncé — but on the coaster-size golden pendant swinging from the rapper’s neck as the couple sat courtside. Asked once if the group’s symbol — an eight-point star with the number 7 in the middle — held any meaning to him, the rapper shrugged, “A little bit.”

So what exactly do Five Percenters believe?

“The rationale is that the black man is God and created the universe, and is physically stronger and intellectually stronger and more righteous naturally,” says Michael Muhammad Knight, an author of two books on the radical group.
“Whiteness is weak and wicked and inferior — basically just an errant child who needs to be corrected.”

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.

Smith rejected the notion of a supernatural deity and instead believed that all black men had God in them and that black women were “earths” who took on a complementary yet subordinate role to their gods.

The idea is empowering, Knight says.

“Anytime someone is saying you have to accept your conditions of oppression and slavery and pray to an unseen god — 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,” he notes. “If there is a problem, no one will fix it for you, except yourself.”

Five Percenters don’t consider themselves Muslim, but their name comes from the Nation of Islam’s belief that 5 percent of humanity are “poor righteous teachers” who exist to enlighten the masses about the truth of existence.

Members will sometimes refer to themselves as “scientists” to drive home the search for truth. And they face a tall task, because under their belief system, 10 percent of the world’s population controls the other 85 percent by spreading the belief in a “mystery God.”

To show followers the way, members must learn the Supreme Mathematics and Supreme Alphabet — 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’s pendant stands for God.

Caucasians, meanwhile, don’t enjoy an exalted status in the narrative of the Five Percenters.

“The first lesson I learned from the Five Percent was simple: F–k white people. Seriously. White people are devils,” Knight, 36, who is white and converted to Islam as a teenager, once wrote.

He insisted the movement has been welcoming and that he views the controversial sentiment as a statement about power rather than biology.

“For me, it is about who is marked as privileged in the power relations of this society,” he says.

Some followers take exception to those who transform their flag into a fashion accessory.

“Jay Z is not an active member — no one has vouched for him” Saladin Allah, a representative of the group’s upstate region, told The Post. “It was always understood that you don’t wear the regalia if you don’t totally subscribe to the life.”

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i wonder if this get some traction if he'll wear it out again or come up with some silly reason why he wears it

 

[Colilluminati]

They can call us devils.

 

[Nomad1]

"Jay-Z’s bling from ‘whites are devils’ group"

 

[really tho]

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Jay knows what he's doing ... as long as people are talking about you, you stay relevant. controversy and bad press is better than no press.

Take the whole trip to Cuba as an example.

the devil is a lie, brehs

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

^^^^ anything for publicity

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Go pro black after being called out for being a c00n brehs

 

[Squirtle]

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dikkriding fakkit you love the attention.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Jay-Z and Jaz O were huge followers of Dr. Malachi Z.York and the Nuwabians in the late 80s/early 90s.

Anything pro-black or for the empowerment of the black cause is considered "racist" or "anti-white" by white people cause they don't know or experience racism. They just perpetrate it. This the closest they'll experience anything close to it.

That is all.

 

[Big Mel]

Jay-Z and Jaz O were huge followers of Dr. Malachi Z.York and the Nuwabians in the late 80s/early 90s.

Anything pro-black or for the empowerment of the black cause is considered "racist" or "anti-white" by white people cause they don't know or experience racism. They just perpetrate it. This the closest they'll experience anything close to it.

That is all.

This.


Listen to the Jaz album ' to your soul'.

 

[Trillion]

Jay-Z and Jaz O were huge followers of Dr. Malachi Z.York and the Nuwabians in the late 80s/early 90s.

Anything pro-black or for the empowerment of the black cause is considered "racist" or "anti-white" by white people cause they don't know or experience racism. They just perpetrate it. This the closest they'll experience anything close to it.

That is all.

not to mention how dirty they did malachi

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Hov has been claiming godbody for a minute...listen to the music kids.

 

[The Bookie]

The Daily Mail are reporting it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dallion-group-believe-whites-wicked-weak.html

 

[RAX 010]

Jay-Z and Jaz O were huge followers of Dr. Malachi Z.York and the Nuwabians in the late 80s/early 90s.

Anything pro-black or for the empowerment of the black cause is considered "racist" or "anti-white" by white people cause they don't know or experience racism. They just perpetrate it. This the closest they'll experience anything close to it.

That is all.

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You must spread reputation to at least 40 other user(s) before you can give reputation to *F*U*N*E*R*A*L* again.

 

[The Bookie]

Drudge Report too.

There's about to be some blowback. No more White House visits for Euro-Hov.

Beyonce's gonna do a J-Lo on him to salvage her reputation

 

[Harry B]

Go pro black after being called out for being a c00n brehs

Post comments about incidents without knowing the timeline of the incidents brehs

Drudge Report too.

There's about to be some blowback. No more White House visits for Euro-Hov.

Beyonce's gonna do a J-Lo on him to salvage her reputation

It's NYPOST, nothing will happen.
They've had a beef with Jay since way back, same paper that said Jay should name The Nets the Brooklyn Nig gers.