In a 1962 New Yorker essay, James Baldwin discussed the Nation of Islam, another alleged Black-supremacist, Muslim-ish doomsday group (from which York may have borrowed heavily). Baldwin explains, “One did not need to prove to a Harlem audience that all white men were devils. They were merely glad to have, at last, divine corroboration of their experience, to hear… that their captivity was ending, for God was black.”
