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Meaning of black supremacy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈblæk suˈpɹɛməsi/

Definitions

  1. The ideology which holds that the black race is superior to all others.
    uncountable
  2. A situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
    uncountable
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, supremacy.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Black supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown and yellow men, God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.”
“Within the Nation of Islam theory one may find all of the principles of black nationalism: black separatism, black supremacy, economic independence or "self-sufficiency," and political[…].”
“Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion can be understood and used such a way that it does not necessarily entail Black supremacy; it simply rejects Black captivity to white-supremacist ideology and practice.”
“And yet the struggle in the Southern States has never been by the blacks for, and by the whites against, a black supremacy, but only for and against an arbitrary pure white supremacy.”
“It is the demand for psychological equality and political power that frightens so many white people and which causes black power to be equated with black violence and even black supremacy.”
“Whether the whites now live under majority rule or black supremacy is essentially a semantic matter, for the effects are the same either way. White rule in Africa was called white supremacy because blacks were legislatively barred from equality with whites.”
“Great athletes, therefore, are born and not made; this idea of black supremacy in basketball is held by many blacks and whites alike, young and old.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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