The only reason why Umar was able to get away with his fuckery is because his rhetoric goes unchallenged for the most part. His "expertise" is in an area where most of us don't know anyone qualified enough to fact check his quotes. This allows him to spew numbers and statistics during his speeches and sound like an authoritative source. If he hadn't overreached with this whole school thing, he probably would have gone under the radar for the most part.
Think about it, when Trumps Doctor stood at the podium a few days ago, most of us could immediately tell he was full of shit, but, we also had the privilege of hearing opinions from other qualified doctors whom were able to put a different spin on the report.
At this point, I'd take ANY and EVERYTHING Umar says with a grain of salt.
We do have Blacks in the field of Psychology that have provided plenty of info. Dr. Joy DeGruy and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing are two that immediately come to mind.
You'll never see Dr. DeGruy calling herself the Princess of Pan-Africanism, collecting money for the Rosa Parks Sojorner Truth School for girls (with no curriculum or business plan), hollering at Zaza Ali saying "I'm melanated bitch! You a cracka bitch!", fucking BGOL niggas or claiming to be descendant of Harriet Tubman. Shoutout to her on that 13th documentary though!
That's the difference. Umar is a fraud. I doubt he has those degrees. This nigga claims to have been principal of a school for 10 years yet no one knows the name of any of the public schools he claims to have worked.
And I ran into one of the key conscious leaders from Philly last week and he told me everybody in Philly knows Umar is lying.
You all made my next point for me.You are missing my point......lol....its all good though.....Umar is a fraud. Bottom line.
When individuals such as him tell one colossal lie (that's at the forefront of their whole public identity), it puts all the rest that they've said into question.
An individual like him doing "therapy" and advising children could be dangerous. For example, his treating ADHD as if it's a hoax is very problematic - particularly if he isn't even medically/psychologically qualified to make that assessment. Though it is true that Black boys are often misclassified as a number of things as part of the white supremacist, racist shuffling of Black boys, his conclusion sounds very Trump-ish since I've not heard him provide hard evidence for his assertion.
Incidentally, @cashwhisperer , let us not forget to add Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu to the list of Black scholars who have written extensively on that subject. His set of books, "Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys" are both well-known and groundbreaking.
Not once have I heard Umar reference them.
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