Black supremacy

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{{cquote|...Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men...|||[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200304085122/https://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/33427/</ref>}}
'''Black supremacy'''
is a collection of horrendously vacuous [[Racialism|racialist]] and [[fascism|fascist]] [[ideology|ideologies]] that developed in response to [[white supremacy]]. Many of the largest black supremacist groups are black [[Muslim]] separatist movements like the [[Nation of Islam]] (though black [[Jewish]] separatist groups like the [[Nation of Yahweh]] also exist). Essentially, the more anti-Semitic, anti-white, homophobic segments of the black nationalist movement such as the [[New Black Panther Party]] act as a black version of [[Neo-Nazism]].

==Pseudoscience==
The ideology of black supremacy, of course, is the mirror image of white supremacy. While different groups put their own spin on things, black supremacy often involves the racialist [[pseudoscience]] called "[[melanin theory]]" and the [[pseudohistory]] called '''"Afrocentrism"'''. The basic idea behind melanin theory is that [[bait-and-switch | black is the "natural" skin color because humans originated in Africa]], so lighter skin tones are aberrations. Various melanin theorists build on top of this, positing all sorts of biologically unsupportable claims about melanin increasing muscle tone, brain activity, physical ability, etc. Some theories get into really batshit territory, claiming that melanin can grant [[paranormal]] powers like [[ESP]]. These pseudo-scientific beliefs may express themselves in [[black brute#Miscegenation | sexual language and practice]]. The Urban Dictionary says:

{{quotebox|BNWO stands for Black New World Order. A fetishistic term related to BDSM, specifically Race play. Wherein black supremacy over all races (especially white) is fetishized.<ref>[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BNWO Urban Dictionary: BNWO]</ref>}}

For obvious reasons, the expressions in sexuality may merely be roleplay.

==Afrocentrism==
Afrocentrism is a worldview that favors African civilizations over others and is in large part a response to [[Eurocentrism]]. Historically, it has strong ties to {{wpl|Pan-Africanism}} and overlaps with the American [[civil rights movement]]. It's important to separate legitimate [[historical revisionism]], and revisionism from an African perspective, from the extreme kind Afrocentrists engage in. The early histories and ethnographies of [[African]] cultures were written largely by [[Europe]]an historians and anthropologists from an [[imperialism|imperialist]] perspective. Thus, these works are often skewed by [[racism]] and filled with factual inaccuracies, and are outdated due to new findings in [[Archaeology|archaeological]] and [[historical]] scholarship. There have been many revisionist works throughout the 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> centuries that attempt to look at this history from an African perspective, but remain factual. This is an attempt to correct the record. Afrocentrism, on the other hand, generally engages in distortion and fabrications of its own. 

Afrocentrism and melanin theory often cross-pollinate, but Afrocentrism as a separate concept has a historical rather than biological focus.  One of the central claims of Afrocentrists is that [[Egypt]], being in Africa, was [[Ancient Egyptian race controversy#Black|ruled by a black super race]]. They use this to claim that [[Classical antiquity|Greco-Roman civilization]], and by extension, Western civilization, is actually based on black culture. Working from this point, they rewrite many historical figures like [[Socrates]] as having been black and [[shoehorning|shoehorn]] various events into the ideology.

When called on their [[bullshit]], they tend to justify their factual inaccuracies by claiming that critics are using a [[Eurocentrism|Eurocentric]] methodology that is unable to ascertain a true understanding of history and that [[special pleading|only those using the Afrocentric methodology can do so]].  And just for the record, Ramesses II was a ginger.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Pierre |last= Ceccaldi |url=|title= Research on the Mummy of Ramasses II|year=1987|journal=Bulletin de l'Academie de médecine|volume=171:1|page=119|issue=1}}</ref><ref group=note>This makes it ''extremely'' unlikely that he was black, as the gene for red hair causes increased sun sensitivity; it is only sustained in places that get less sunlight because it has no significant impact, whereas it is strongly selected against in populations near the Equator.</ref>

Similar [[crank]] claims point toward [[India]] (implying that the existence of the "Negrito" people means that Indian culture came from black Africans, and the Dravidians are so dark that they must be Africans); [[Iran]] with the Elamites being claimed to be Africans due to supposedly having African features such as flatter faces and darker skin; [[China]] (depictions of people in dark materials imply they were black; for example, the Terracotta Army); [[Japan]] (Jomons would have been black, and so were the Ainu, as they used black bronze in their sculptures, and were painted in light-brown, which is clearly whitewashing from the Japanese bigots, never mind that the Ainu are still around and definitely not black);<ref group=note>This is essentially a fallacious attempt to recycle old Eurocentric race theories which portrayed the Ainu as a relict Negrito population; in fact, they are lighter-skinned and more "European"-looking than the Japanese</ref> and the [[Mongolia|Mongols]] ("black khans"). In America, they rewrite Central America, Aztecs, Mayas, and particularly the Olmecs, since they had wide noses in their statues (like many Native people from the region today, but let's forget about that).<ref>http://realhistoryww.com/ "Legitimate Black researchers, (as opposed to those who do it to gain favor with the Albinos and thus make money), must out of necessity, try to reconstruct history by bits and pieces. The Albinos have after all, had over 200 years to create their false paintings, statues, and false translations of historical documents."</ref> Some may even claim that the British monarchs were secretly black.<ref>''Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends''. Season 2, Episode 3. "Black Nationalism"</ref> Even white Europeans were black! So yeah, it might have been easier for us to list all the ethnicities and cultures they ''don't'' try to shoehorn into having somehow secretly been black.

==Republic of New Afrika==
The Republic of New Afrika is a black nationalist/separatist movement that advocates for the creation of a black majority homeland/country separate from the white-majority/diverse [[United States of America|United States]]. (It is important to note that not all proponents of a New Afrika are black supremacists). The movement was founded in 1968. The three goals of the New Afrika movement are:<ref>[https://moguldom.com/209972/10-things-to-know-about-the-republic-of-new-afrika-movement/ 10 Things To Know About The Republic Of New Afrika Movement.] ''The Moguldom Nation''</ref><ref>[https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/republic-new-africa-1968/ REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA (1968- )] ''BLACKPAST''</ref>
* Creation of a black-majority country centered in the Black Belt region.
* A $400 billion Payment by the federal government as reparations from America due to enslaving blacks, Jim Crow laws, and racism.
* A referendum of all blacks to determine their desires for citizenship and self-determination.

Various black nationalist groups have advocated for the creation of the Republic of New Afrika over the years and the movement is still on going.<ref>[https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/ Apparently still celebrated]. Go figure.</ref>

==Strange bedfellows==
Oddly enough, some Black supremacist groups have formed friendly relations with White supremacist groups. Part of it may be that both ideologies tend to promote [[antisemitism]], [[misogyny]], and [[homophobia]], and both are prone to [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]. Another reason is a shared belief in [[ethnocracy]] and separatism: both ideologies maintain that the "races" are fundamentally incompatible with one another, and thus have a shared opposition to [[miscegenation]] and the common end goal of a series of separate ethno-states for each "race". So if White Nationalists in the US want to move all the White people to, say, [[Montana]], and Black Nationalists want to move all the Black people to not-Montana, they both have the same goal. The devil is always in the details, of course; under such a scenario, it's unclear just who would take the mixed-race people, or others who don't fit neatly into White or Black categories. Perhaps they would be forced into a third ethno-state. 

[[Louis Farrakhan]] of the Nation of Islam once invited the [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] [[Tom Metzger]] to NOI meetings. Metzger remarked:

{{quotebox|They speak out against the Jews and the oppressors in Washington… They are the black counterpart to us.<ref>[http://www.answering-islam.org/NoI/noi1.html#tx31 Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam]</ref>}}

The Black supremacist sect that probably most promotes anti-Semitism ironically identifies itself as "[[Black Hebrew Israelites]]."<ref group=note>Not all members of this religious sect openly promote black supremacy. {{wpa|Black Hebrew Israelites}}</ref> This ideology has its roots in [[American Civil War|post-bellum]] [[Pentecostalism]], which transmuted into "Black [[Judaism]]." According to Black Judaism and Black Hebrew Israelism, the newly freed [[slaves]] of America's [[The South|South]] were the true [[Hebrew]]s and descendants of the [[Ten Lost Tribes|tribes of Israel]] (an assertion that mirrors the [[Christian Identity]] theology held by some white supremacists, which claims [[Aryan]]s as the true Hebrew race). F.S. Cherry, a late 19<sup>th</sup> century proponent of Black Judaism's more hateful elements, also preached about a [[race war]] with [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] overtones that would supposedly occur in the year 2000 and refashion society into one where blacks were the superior race. The belief that blacks are the "true" Hebrews also leads many in the Black Hebrew Israelite movement to espouse anti-Semitic pseudohistory such as the [[Khazar myth]] and [[Holocaust denial]].<ref>[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] reports: [https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/history-hebrew-israelism/ History of Hebrew Israelism], [https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/2008-fall-ready-war/ Ready for War]. Religious Tolerance: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926143406/http://www.religioustolerance.org/bhi.htm Black Hebrew Israelites]</ref>

==See also==
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*[[AssataShakur.org]]
*[[New Black Panther Party]]
*[[Nuwaubianism]]
*[[Rastafari]]
*[[Yakub Islam]]
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==External links==
*[[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]]: [http://www.csicop.org/si/show/magic_melanin_spreading_scientific_illiteracy_among_minorities/ Magic Melanin], [http://www.csicop.org/si/show/multicultural_pseudoscience_spreading_scientific_illiteracy/ Multicultural Pseudoscience]
*Hall of Ma'at: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131008170035/http://hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=75 Stolen Legacy (or Mythical History?) Did the Greeks Steal Philosophy from the Egyptians?]
*[http://skepdic.com/afrocent.html Afrocentrism], [[The Skeptic's Dictionary]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070926215752/https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/mehler/academic.htm African American Racism in the Academic Community], Barry Mehler
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100210000831/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/black-separatist Overview of black separatist groups] at the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]
*[http://www.academia.edu/923818/They_were_not_here_before_Columbus_Afrocentric_Hyperdiffusionism_in_the_1990s They were not here before Columbus: Afrocentric Hyperdiffusionism in the 1990s], Bernard Ortiz de Montellano

==Notes==
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