Editing Charles Manson (section)

=== Doomsday beliefs ===
{{See also|Manson Family#Possible murder motives|Helter Skelter (scenario)}}
The Manson Family evolved into a [[doomsday cult]] when Manson became fixated on the idea of an imminent apocalyptic [[ethnic conflict|race war]] between America's Black minority and the larger White population. A [[White supremacy|white supremacist]],<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Lauren|last=Gill|url=https://www.newsweek.com/charles-manson-was-white-supremacist-lets-not-forget-713915|title=Remember, Charles Manson Was a White Supremacist|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|date=November 16, 2017|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804074518/https://www.newsweek.com/charles-manson-was-white-supremacist-lets-not-forget-713915|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Desire|last=Thompson|url=https://www.vibe.com/2017/11/charles-manson-his-obsession-with-black-people|title=Charles Manson & His Obsession with Black People|magazine=[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]|location=New York City|date=November 20, 2017|access-date=August 18, 2020|archive-date=August 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813000715/https://www.vibe.com/2017/11/charles-manson-his-obsession-with-black-people|url-status=live}}</ref> Manson told some of the Family that Black people would rise up and kill the entire White population except for Manson and his followers, but that they were not intelligent enough to survive on their own; they would need a white man to lead them, and so they would serve Manson as their "master".<ref>{{cite web|first=John W.|last=Whitehead|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/helter-skelter-racism-and_b_669109|title=Helter Skelter: Racism and Murder|website=[[HuffPost]]|date=August 3, 2010|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030204544/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/helter-skelter-racism-and_b_669109|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Jim|last=Beckerman|url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2019/08/09/charles-manson-murders-still-relevant-racism-50-years-later/1955164001/|title=Charles Manson: 50 years later, murders have racist link to recent mass-killings|newspaper=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]|date=August 9, 2019|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124221103/https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2019/08/09/charles-manson-murders-still-relevant-racism-50-years-later/1955164001/|url-status=live}}</ref> In late-1968, Manson adopted the term "[[Helter Skelter (scenario)|Helter Skelter]]", taken from [[Helter Skelter (song)|a song]] on [[the Beatles]]' recently released ''[[The Beatles (album)|White Album]]'', to refer to this upcoming war.{{sfn|Bugliosi|Gentry|1974|pp=244}}