Black empowerment
African-descent community advancement
Black empowerment refers to efforts by Black people to gain economic, political, and social power for themselves and their communities.
The term encompasses movements for self-determination, wealth-building, and institutional influence: Black empowerment initiatives focus on business ownership and political representation.
In South Africa, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) specifically designates post-apartheid policies addressing racial economic inequality.
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- liberationRelease from constraint
- solidarityUnity among allies
- raised fistClenched hand elevated defiantly
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Black empowermentwhite supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
racial oppression · systemic racism · Jim Crow · apartheid · institutional racism
Black empowermentwhite nationalism
Ideology favoring Caucasian dominance
Ku Klux Klan · neo-Nazism · segregationism · scientific racism · George Wallace
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