He's not perfect, but where does Tariq Nasheed stand with you as a black voice in the media?

[Pazzy]

Isn't that what Tariq advocates though?

Why are you mad at the medium and not the message?

Should he go around holding nikkas hands too?

I haven' heard anyone popularize the "black economics" mindset more than Tariq in the last decade.

Trust me.

NONE of these "academics" have so much as outwardly called out white supremacy on such a mainstream level has he has.

breh, tariq profits from exploitation. he basically exploits the weakness and insecurities of others and makes money off of it.

he WILL not give back to others in a positive way.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Ya'll promoting Cornel West but what movements has he inspired in the last 20 years?

 

[LA Fisher]

Stop trolling.

Its 2014. You probable still got library fees from the early 2000s with this bullshyt.

Everyone has a smart phone and stays on wikipedia. If it takes Tariq dropping a few tidbits about lesser known black history in the US, then so be it.

I don't care if tariq makes 10 more dvd's. Just stop acting like dude is some gift from God. That is all.

 

[Pazzy]

And? Not everyone who watched Jurassic Park went to the Smithsonian either

Whats your point?

the problem is with the inaccuracies that you pointed out, he's basically doing the same shyt. in other words, he TOO can't be trusted BUT yet he promotes his dvd as something that can be trusted and his reliable.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

breh, tariq profits from exploitation. he basically exploits the weakness and insecurities of others and makes money off of it.

he WILL not give back to others in a positive way.

1. helping dudes interact with women healthily?
2. promoting group economics?
3. promoting social advocacy and political action?
4. PROVEN donations to active movements?

Who else has done this in as publicized of a manner than him right now?

This shyt is actually pissing me off cause ya'll got all these black academics fighting for spots on MSNBC but none of them are actually doing shyt but talking about trivial topics for 5-7 minutes in-between commercial spots.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I don't care if tariq makes 10 more dvd's. Just stop acting like dude is some gift from God. That is all.

I NEVER did that.

I'm merely suggesting that he deserves some serious props for enriching the debate.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Isn't that what Tariq advocates though?

Why are you mad at the medium and not the message?

Should he go around holding nikkas hands too?

I haven' heard anyone popularize the "black economics" mindset more than Tariq in the last decade.

Trust me.

NONE of these "academics" have so much as outwardly called out white supremacy on such a mainstream level has he has.

Uhm, I'm not mad at either.

Again, I'm just more puzzeled and entertained by his fanboys than Tariq himself. And the reason you haven't heard anything about popular economics is because you were probably born in the early 90's. Brothas been talking. Brothas is making moves in places like Atlanta, Houston, DMV even sections of Tennessee brothers and sisters is banning together trying to prosper. They ain't need no nikka with a DVD for that shyt. Ya'll act like can't nobody do or was doing anything Tariq ass came along.

Also, you can call out White Supremacy all you want.

It didn't stop Michael Brown from getting popped.

Didn't stop Eric Garner from getting choked out.

I mean ya'll nikkas put too much emphasis on a nikka personality than his actual content that you think society benefits from it.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

If hidden colors gave that man knowledge of self, why are you trying to still dismiss his experience? Books used to be the main way people came into that knowledge, now it's documentaries.

Even though I know a little about black history before, hidden colors put on a lot of information into a 2 hour documentary that I could research afterwards for myself. Tariq, along with other black scholars who I was introduced to because of the film taught me a lot racism and the importance of us actively working to fight against it.

I didn't dismiss it. I asked him the question, he answered, and I dapped his post.

I only asked him because sometimes while people are searching for truth, meaning, or identity, they tend to gravitate toward books, docs, music ideologies, etc.--external sources that validate things they find solace in believing, or give them some confirmation bias.

Your comment about docs being the primary source of knowledge over books for this ADD generation is probably true, but it's unfortunate. There's plenty of bullshyt in books, but it's much easier for filmmakers to let it fly in films, and they appeal to peoples' emotion through entertainment. For example HC is full of factual inaccuracies and pseudoscientific, ahistorical bullshyt, but you can look no further than this site to see people sweeping that under the rug because HC gives them emotional high, and they've vested parts of their identity into. Some of these kids here will go to the extent that they will insult people and label people "c00ns/cacs" or whatever just because they point out the falsehoods in HC and don't see Mr. Nasheed as a credible source of academic discussion.

Zeitgeist is another bullshyt documentary that developed a mini-following of young naive people a few years back. Different ideological niches have their own slanted, poorly-sourced emotional appeal-driven documentaries and media sources that validate for them shyt they want to believe.

So the question is are people who digesting lowbrow, falsehood-tainted propaganda from kooks and charlatans like HC, or Zeitgeist, or Alex Jones films, or that Waco doc, or what have you a good thing for society and peoples' lives overall--are the negatives of heads being filled with false information that could potentially handicaps one's growth just a necessary cost of being a catalyst for positivity.

I would say no. shyt like HC just makes people feel good imo. It doubt it bears fruit in terms of making an appreciable difference in anyone's living situation. It's like going to church...an emotional fix.

Regarding knowledge of self or whatever, it's a misconception that black people somehow need a self-esteem boost. Black people have no shortage of self-esteem. We need practical solutions for economic, educational, and political growth and expansion, not touchy-feely ego-steroid s bullshyt about melanin having super-powered and Olmecs being black.

People absorb this shyt like it's a drug. Tariq Nasheed is a joke of a thinker, he's obviously a clear charlatan and a capitalist opportunist. His Isis Papers and afrocentric kook-inspired pseudohistory holds no weight factually, all that melanin nonsense is the perverse twin of 19th century cac racial pseudoscience, his critiques of black feminism are generally strawmen that highlight anecdotes and the worst extremes. And the stuff he says that is true about African history, systemic racism, etc. can be easily accessed without all the rest of the bullshyt or a charlatan like Nasheed playing middleman/cult leader.

Dude has a cult following, if you judge by this board. I don't even read TLR much there seems to be a new Tariq dikk-swallowing thread every time I browse here. It's not even about the knowledge or potential positivity. It's just a circle jerk of weak-minded, intellectually-lazy impressionable dudes dikkriding, waving pom-poms, and retreating to their ideological enclaves where they can stroke their own egos through groupthink and toss grenades in defense of their self-validating worldview.

I do sincerely hope that this Nasheed/Sotomayor/Umar Johnson or whoever else black Glenn Beck shockjock and flimsy ideology stanning is just a stepping stone to a greater level of understanding and growth. I don't see it though. Most people generally just gravitate toward makes them feel good and confirms their biases and stubbornly and aggressively cling there.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

the problem is with the inaccuracies that you pointed out, he's basically doing the same shyt. in other words, he TOO can't be trusted BUT yet he promotes his dvd as something that can be trusted and his reliable.

Are you not understanding me?

Sometimes, people who are wrong...do not know they are wrong.

Its that simple.

 

[LA Fisher]

I NEVER did that.

I'm merely suggesting that he deserves some serious props for enriching the debate.

He doesn't deserve shyt. Stop it.

 

[Busted_Toes]

breh, tariq profits from exploitation. he basically exploits the weakness and insecurities of others and makes money off of it.

he WILL not give back to others in a positive way.

You really hate this man

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

Bruh

The communitiy benefits more from schools, teachers, doctors, group economics and a whole plethora of things besides a goddamn DVD. It's bewildering you can't grasp that.

and the DVD encourages people to reach those goals, especially HC3. yall nikkas are just being obtuse.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Uhm, I'm not mad at either.

Again, I'm just more puzzeled and entertained by his fanboys than Tariq himself. And the reason you haven't heard anything about popular economics is because you were probably born in the early 90's. Brothas been talking. Brothas is making moves in places like Atlanta, Houston, DMV even sections of Tennessee brothers and sisters is banning together trying to prosper. They ain't need no nikka with a DVD for that shyt. Ya'll act like can't nobody do or was doing anything Tariq ass came along./QUOTE]

Its not who does it first, its who does it BEST.

Never forget that.

Also, you can call out White Supremacy all you want.

It didn't stop Michael Brown from getting popped.

Didn't stop Eric Garner from getting choked out.

I mean ya'll nikkas put too much emphasis on a nikka personality than his actual content that you think society benefits from it.

And all that marching didn't amount to shyt until you start social activism WITH outcomes like #Recall4Mike

Even Al Sharpton ain't pushing fo rpolitical reform on a wide scale. What now?

 

[LA Fisher]

Uhm, I'm not mad at either.

Again, I'm just more puzzeled and entertained by his fanboys than Tariq himself. And the reason you haven't heard anything about popular economics is because you were probably born in the early 90's. Brothas been talking. Brothas is making moves in places like Atlanta, Houston, DMV even sections of Tennessee brothers and sisters is banning together trying to prosper. They ain't need no nikka with a DVD for that shyt. Ya'll act like can't nobody do or was doing anything Tariq ass came along.

Also, you can call out White Supremacy all you want.

It didn't stop Michael Brown from getting popped.

Didn't stop Eric Garner from getting choked out.

I mean ya'll nikkas put too much emphasis on a nikka personality than his actual content that you think society benefits from it.

 

[Pazzy]

1. helping dudes interact with women healthily?
2. promoting group economics?
3. promoting social advocacy and political action?
4. PROVEN donations to active movements?

Who else has done this in as publicized of a manner than him right now?

This shyt is actually pissing me off cause ya'll got all these black academics fighting for spots on MSNBC but none of them are actually doing shyt but talking about trivial topics for 5-7 minutes in-between commercial spots.

are you serious?

please tell me HOW tariq is doing all that especially the first one.