Editing Five-Percent Nation (section)

=== Gender perceptions ===
Some Five Percenters have been accused of promoting male chauvinism and [[misogyny]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |year=2007 |pages=214–215}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence: Divinity in Africana Life, Lyrics, and Literature |last=Washington |first=Teresa N. |publisher=Oya's Tornado |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9910730-0-9 |pages=123–128}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Voices of the Earth: A Phenomenological Study of Women in the Nation of Gods and Earths |last=Keiler-Bradshaw |first=Ahmon J. |publisher=Georgia State University: M.A. Thesis |year=2010 |pages=63}}</ref> According to Prince Allah Cuba, since the death of Allah the Father, some Gods have grown preoccupied with male supremacy, and this preoccupation has resulted in the minimization of all things female: from the crescent moon on the nation's flag being made smaller and eventually placed under the number seven, to the lack of parity in the God-Earth dyad.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |pages=214–215}}</ref>

According to the Five Percent Nation, each member constitutes a divine being in their own right.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |title=Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence |last=Washington |first=Teresa N. |publisher=Oya's Tornado |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9910730-0-9 |pages=123}}</ref> Some men promote the minimization of women, as with [[Lord Jamar]]'s lyric that woman is "secondary but most necessary".<ref>Lord Jamar. "Supreme Mathematics." ''[[The 5% Album]]''. [[Babygrande Records|Babygrande]]/[[Koch Records|Koch]]. 2006.</ref> Others describe the Black woman as the Black man's equal: In [[X Clan]]'s song "Wiz Degrees", Five Percenter [[Brother J]] describes his partner as "Wisdom and the Goddess manifest".<ref name=":2">[[X Clan]]. "Wiz Degrees." ''[[Mainstream Outlawz]]''. Suburban Noize. 2009.</ref> [[Ladybug Mecca]], a Five Percenter and the female member of the hip hop group [[Digable Planets]], offers her view of gender and divinity: <blockquote>We need to know that there is a feminine and masculine principal or consciousness that is considered the God or the Creator. It's not a male, like religion will tell you. It's a mother/father principle, a masculine/feminine principle. [...] The feminine principle is what gives birth to the universe. It's what brings creation forth, so there has to be an acknowledgement and respect for her in order to bring back the balance. In religion, in Christianity and in Islam, in all religions ... it's a perverted piece of the truth, when it doesn't hold the woman on a pedestal.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Manifestations of Masculine Magnificence |last=Quoted in: Washington |first=Teresa |publisher=Oya's Tornado |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9910730-0-9 |page=127}}</ref> </blockquote>

Five Percenter Just I C Equality Allah, asserts that gender equality is an inherent aspect of ALLAH: "How can woman not be God as well as man? First of all, we are the Arm Leg Leg Arm Head (Allah). There is no gender type, we all have the components that make the physical. Allah is the all in all. How can we be the all in all if 'all' isn't included?"<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |year=2007 |pages=219}}</ref> When Allah the Father was alive, some female Five Percenters referred to themselves as Goddesses.<ref name="knight220">{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |pages=220}}</ref> A Five Percent female named Tawanna referred to herself as God. When challenged by some male Five Percenters, Tawanna defended her position and was declared by Justice to be "more God than some of the men!"<ref name="knight220" />