Editing Black supremacy (section)

==Historical usage==
Black supremacy was advocated by Jamaican preacher [[Leonard Howell]] in the 1935 [[Rastafari movement]] tract ''[[The Promised Key]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sellers|first=Allison Paige|date=2015|title=The 'Black Man's Bible': The Holy Piby, Garveyism, and Black Supremacy in the Interwar Years|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.3.3.0325|journal=Journal of Africana Religions|volume=3|issue=3|pages=325–342|doi=10.5325/jafrireli.3.3.0325|jstor=10.5325/jafrireli.3.3.0325|s2cid=141594246}}</ref> Howell's use of "Black Supremacy" had both religious and political implications. Politically, as a direct counterpoint to [[white supremacy]], and the failure of white governments to protect black people, he advocated the destruction of white governments.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bogues |first1=Anthony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sX9ACwAAQBAJ |title=Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals |date=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-94325-3 |page=164 |language=en |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref> Howell had drawn upon as an influence the work of the earlier proto-Rastafari preacher [[Fitz Balintine Pettersburg]], in particular the latter's book ''[[The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy]]''.<ref name="Price2009">{{cite book|author=Charles Price|title=Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OC399TZD2BwC&pg=PA49|year=2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-6768-9|pages=48–49}}</ref>

The [[Associated Press]] described the teachings of the [[Nation of Islam]] (NOI) as having been black supremacist until 1975, when [[Warith Deen Mohammed|W. Deen Mohammed]] succeeded [[Elijah Muhammad]] (his father) as its leader.<ref name="MSNBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26630405|title=Former Nation of Islam leader dies at 74|date=September 9, 2008|access-date=March 1, 2019|publisher=[[MSNBC]]|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Elijah Muhammad's black-supremacist doctrine acted as a counter to the supremacist paradigm established and controlled by white supremacy.<ref name="vincent">{{cite book |last1=Vincent |first1=Rickey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3TTVAAAAQBAJ |title=Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music |date=2013 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1-61374-495-6 |page=180 |language=en |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Perry |first1=Theresa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZvHBQAAQBAJ |title=Teaching Malcolm X |date=1996 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-91155-9 |page=143 |language=en |access-date=22 December 2022}}</ref> The SPLC described the group as having a "theology of innate black superiority over whites – a belief system vehemently and consistently rejected by mainstream Muslims".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|title=Nation of Islam|website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011080634/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nation-islam|archive-date=2019-10-11|access-date=2019-10-16}}</ref>