I disagree with his hidden color movies because they contain a ton of afrocentric pseudo science and half-truths but I support the rest of his work. Francis Crest Wellsing is a crackpot but a lot of his social commentary and dating tips are pretty legit.
I am especially thankful that we have a black person who isn't a complete social retard telling us this stuff. A lot of afrocentric people I know tend to be socially isolated/handicap and have a very warped view of white people. It gets to a point where they barely have any social skills because they blame every instance of people not liking them on being black instead of addressing character/appearance problems. They also tend to self segregate to their detriment. Tariq has the social skills to understand when things are racism and when things are due to personality type ordeals.
I tend to look at Tariq as a gateway black activist.
He's good for gaining an interest into getting in touch with your blackness and learning the rules of the game but you should move on to more reputable scholars with more academic credentials once you start getting more educated like Henry Louis Gates, W.E.B. Dubois, John McWhorter, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, etc. A lot of them by themselves are dryer but Tariq makes it easier to understand where they all are coming from which makes it easier to get into their material and follow their writings.
I appreciate the fact that he instills in people black pride in an age where the cool thing to do is distance yourself as far as possible for any sort of black/African identity. I'm not saying you have to go ghetto/hood rat but you can appreciate African culture and still be a classy person. I don't really fukk with Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, they seem like useless talking heads and they never interest me.
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