black supremacy

Noun

black supremacy (uncountable)

1. The ideology which holds that the black race is superior to all others.
   • 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.1959, Martin Luther King, Jr, Address at the Thirty-fourth Annual Convention of the National Bar Association
   • 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[…].1971, Clinton B. Jones, Black Power: An Analysis of Select Strategies for the Implementation of the Concept, page 29
2. A situation in which black people are privileged over other people in society.
   • 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.1888, George W. Cable, “The Negro Question in the United States”, in The Library Magazine, page 17
   • 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.1975, Lewis M. Killian, The Impossible Revolution, Phase 2: Black Power and the ..., page 123
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, supremacy.
   • 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.2015, Lori Latrice Martin, White Sports/Black Sports: Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs, page 81