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Moorish sovereigns espouse an interpretation of sovereign doctrine that African Americans constitute an elite class within American society with special rights and privileges that convey on them a sovereign immunity placing them beyond federal and state authority.
In addition to the Moorish Science Temple doctrine that Black Americans are of Moorish descent, Moorish sovereign citizens claim immunity from U.S. federal, state, and local laws, because of a mistaken belief that the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship (1786) grants them sovereignty.
We Moorish Americans are not sovereign citizens. We are not anti-American nor are we anti-government. We are a nation of Moors within the American governmental structure. We are a part and partial of the said government. . MYTH: Moorish Americans do not need driver's licenses.
Jul 7, 2021 · Moorish sovereign citizens emerged in the early 1990s as a largely African-American offshoot of the larger sovereign citizens ideology. The SPLC website says Moorish sovereigns believe African...
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Aug 10, 2023 · Sovereign citizens can be of any race or nationality. While most sovereigns in the US are White, there exists a subset within the movement known as ‘ Moorish’ sovereigns: Black adherents who hold pseudo-historical beliefs specific to African
While the sovereign citizen movement was originally associated with white supremacism and antisemitism, it now attracts people of various ethnicities, including a significant number of African Americans. The latter sometimes belong to self-declared Moorish sects. The majority of sovereign citizens are not violent.
Most sovereign citizens are still white, but in a number of cities with large African-American populations such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and others, African-Americans now comprise the majority of sovereign citizens. Moorish sovereign citizens can today be found in any area with a substantial African-American population.
