Etymology

5 percenter

Today it means: A member of the Five-Percent Nation, a cultural movement influenced by Islam, founded in 1964 in New York City. Full definition →

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The story

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.