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{{Short description|American black nationalist religious movement}}
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[[File:Fivepercenter.png|thumb|210px|The Five-Percent emblem, also known as the Universal Flag of Islam (I-Self Lord and Master).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/what-i-learned-from-the-five-percenters |title=What I Learned from the Five Percenters |publisher=VICE |last=Muhammad Knight |first=Michael |date=January 8, 2013 |access-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-date=May 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528043221/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/what-i-learned-from-the-five-percenters |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File:Clarence 13X.jpg|200px|thumb| '' (formerly [[Clarence 13X]]), the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths]]
The '''Five-Percent Nation''', sometimes referred to as the '''Nation of Gods and Earths''' ('''NGE'''/'''NOGE''') or the '''Five Percenters''', is a [[Black nationalism| Afro-American Nationalist]] movement influenced by [[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 [[elite]]s 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.<ref name="npr.org">{{cite news |title=God, the Black Man and the Five Percenters |newspaper=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5614846 |access-date=February 13, 2012 |publisher=NPR |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119080426/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5614846 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="HipHopWired">{{cite web |url=http://hiphopwired.com/2012/06/28/the-meaning-of-the-5-a-look-at-the-nation-of-gods-and-earths/ |title=The Meaning of the 5%: A Look at the Nation Of Gods And Earths |last=Chandler |first=D. L. |date=June 28, 2012 |website=Hip-Hop Wired |access-date=October 11, 2013 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012042550/http://hiphopwired.com/2012/06/28/the-meaning-of-the-5-a-look-at-the-nation-of-gods-and-earths/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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]].<ref name="npr.org" /> 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 thus being a race of actual gods.<ref name="npr.org" />
== History ==
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