Editing Five-Percent Nation (section)

=== Social and political influence ===
The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] opened a file on the Five Percenters in 1965, the height of the [[Civil rights movement|Civil Rights]] and [[Black Power movement|Black Power Movements]] in the United States. In "Disturbance by Group Called 'Five Percenters,'" the FBI refers to the organization as a "loosely knit group of Negro youth gangs. ... These particular gangs emanate from New York City Public School Number 120 which is a junior high school."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://vault.fbi.gov/5percent/five-percenters-part-01-of-01/view |title=Five Percenters: Part 01 of 01 |website=FBI Records: The Vault |access-date=April 4, 2019 |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514140833/https://vault.fbi.gov/5percent/five-percenters-part-01-of-01/view |url-status=live }}</ref> The FBI file stated that the organization's name meant "The five percent of the Muslims who smoke and drink."<ref name=":0" />

1965 New York newspaper articles referred to the Five Percenters as a "gang", "hoodlums", and "terror group".<ref name=":0" /> Allah the Father and the Five Percenters "had a reputation for being unreachable, anti-white criminals."<ref name=":1" /> With the goal of preventing New York from having a race riot or uprising, New York Mayor [[John Lindsay|John V. Lindsay]] sent Barry Gottehrer, the head of the mayor's Urban Task Force, to meet with the organization the FBI had called a "gang" and "terror group".<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=Five Percenter Rap |last=Miyakawa |first=Felicia |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2005 |isbn=0-253-21763-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/19 19] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253345745/page/19}}</ref> Gottehrer stated Allah the Father was non-violent, "but was dedicated to his community's well-being."<ref name=":1" />

Gottehrer and Clarence began organizing picnics and airplane rides for the Five Percenters that were funded by New York City through the Urban Task Force.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=238}}<ref name=":1" /> [[Wakeel Allah]]'s book ''In the Name of Allah'' includes a photo captioned: "Clarence (in background) along with Mayor Lindsay (holding baby) on airplane ride with Five Percenters."{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=238}} In 1967, Clarence, with Gottehrer's assistance, opened the Urban League Street Academy, which became known as the Allah School in Mecca.<ref name=":1" />

In 1967, shortly after Clarence and Justice started holding classes at the Street Academy, [[Civil rights movement|Civil Rights]] leader [[Bayard Rustin]] and Massachusetts [[Edward Brooke|Senator Edward Brooke]] visited Father Allah at the academy.{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=240}} In an article titled "The Five Percenters", published in ''The New Amsterdam News,'' Rustin wrote<blockquote>We might all applaud the Street Academy as one of the most constructive contributions to the maintenance of stability in the Harlem Community, as well as creating an effective instrument for the rehabilitation of young men who might otherwise have no choice but the streets. ... Besides their academic and social activities, the Five Percenters told me that they pursue a spiritual ideal of "helping others discover a true knowledge of themselves." They said they are "neither anti-white nor pro-black."{{sfn|Allah|2007|p=241}}</blockquote>

Clarence stated that he was "neither pro-black nor anti-white".<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael |publisher=One World |year=2009 |pages=xiii, 142, 227}}</ref> In his "National Statement" given at Brookdale College in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in 1998, Dumar Wa'de Allah, National Spokesman for the NGE,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jun/27/rip-god-dumar-wade-allah/ |title=R.I.P. God Dumar Wa'de Allah |date=June 27, 2013 |website=Amsterdamnews.com |access-date=April 4, 2019 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809071836/http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2013/jun/27/rip-god-dumar-wade-allah/ |url-status=live }}</ref> stated "we are not anti-white, nor pro-black. In fact, we have white Five Percenters."<ref name="wa'de">{{Cite web |url=http://tareefsea.tripod.com/Degrees/notagang.html |title=A National Statement by Dumar Wa'de Allah |last=Allah |first=Dumar Wa'de |year=1998 |access-date=May 29, 2018 |archive-date=May 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180530034937/http://tareefsea.tripod.com/Degrees/notagang.html |url-status=live }}</ref> NGE websites and articles state, "We as a collective are not anti-white nor pro-black. We are pro-righteous and anti-devilishment."<ref name="jerule">{{Cite web |url=https://ngeinla.weebly.com/ |title=Welcome to the Love Allah website of the Gods and Earths! |last=Allah |first=Jerule |access-date=May 29, 2018 |archive-date=May 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529204145/https://ngeinla.weebly.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sfbayview.com/2013/11/state-and-federal-prisons-persecute-nation-of-gods-and-earth-five-percenters/ |title=State and federal prisons persecute Nation of Gods and Earth (Five Percenters) |last=See also: Allah |first=Immortality Exegetical 120 (Randal Best) |date=November 28, 2013 |access-date=May 29, 2018 |archive-date=May 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529210358/http://sfbayview.com/2013/11/state-and-federal-prisons-persecute-nation-of-gods-and-earth-five-percenters/ |url-status=live }}</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. |s2cid=151078180 |publisher=Georgia State University: M.A. Thesis |year=2010 |pages=101}}</ref>

There have been from the organization's inception Five Percenters of various ethnicities. The most well-known white Five Percenter is John Michael Kennedy, who met Clarence in 1965. Allah proclaimed Kennedy a "righteous man" and renamed him Azreal.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |publisher=One World |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |pages=85–86}}</ref> Michael M. Knight's ''The Five Percenters'' includes a photo of a gathering of Five Percenters that includes Barkim, who Knight describes as "one of the earliest white Five Percenters" and his siblings.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |publisher=One World |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |at=Plate 2}}</ref> Knight's book includes two photos of Allah with Gottehrer, who Allah called "Moses".<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Five Percenters |last=Knight |first=Michael M. |date=October 2008 |publisher=One World |isbn=978-1-85168-615-5 |at=Plates 6 & 7 and page 112}}</ref>

In 2018, members of the Five Percent Nation and Harlem community members applied to the Transportation/Historic Preservation & Landmarks Committee of Manhattan Community Board 10, to have the northwest corner of 126th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd in Harlem, New York, co-named "Allah, Justice & The Five Percenters Square".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/html/mancb10/downloads/pdf/11_7_18_gbm_agenda_final.pdf |title=General Board Meeting of City of New York Manhattan Community Board |date=November 7, 2018 |website=www1.nyc.gov |access-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204204520/https://www1.nyc.gov/html/mancb10/downloads/pdf/11_7_18_gbm_agenda_final.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |url=https://therighteouswaybook.com/allah-justice-the-five-percenters-square/ |title=ALLAH, JUSTICE & THE FIVE PERCENTERS SQUARE |last=Allah |first=Starmel |date=13 November 2018 |website=The Righteous Way Book |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809033904/https://therighteouswaybook.com/allah-justice-the-five-percenters-square/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The application and subsequent proposal were approved by [[Manhattan Community Board 10]] and the [[New York City Council]].<ref name=":5" /> In March 2019, the intersection of 126th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd in New York was officially co-named "Allah, Justice & The Five Percenters Square".<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thesource.com/2019/03/29/tomorrow-allah-justice-the-five-percenters-square-street-sign-unveiling-in-harlem/ |title=TOMORROW! 'ALLAH, JUSTICE & THE FIVE PERCENTERS SQUARE' STREET SIGN UNVEILING IN HARLEM |last=Allah |first=Sha Be |date=29 March 2019 |website=The Source |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331002444/http://thesource.com/2019/03/29/tomorrow-allah-justice-the-five-percenters-square-street-sign-unveiling-in-harlem/ |url-status=live }}</ref>