This dude Umar Johnson has gotten too famous out here...

[cheek100]

Recently saw dude live. The energy was good. It's good to hear positive words spoken. The brother knows his shyt.
Y'all just hate to be hating.

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

He's... um.... He's circulating the dollar in the Black community.

 

[Street Knowledge]

His lectures be having me dying


"Public education at this point is simply a national jobs program for white women. That's all it is, they have bills to pay"

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

Idk how you expect him to reach the young generation? Ya'll live on social media, your phones and realityTV and worship celebs. Damn if you do and damned if you don't.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

Recently saw dude live. The energy was good. It's good to hear positive words spoken. The brother knows his shyt.
Y'all just hate to be hating.

Invited him to Greensboro twice and didn't say nothing that wasn't facts except his views on homosexuality. Other than that, I can't complain

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

I saw him in Baltimore. It was really great environment. The guys behind me kept yelling "Black Power" and "Hello African." It was pretty awesome. I think they had a clothing line. I think I'll go look them up right now...

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Invited him to Greensboro twice and didn't say nothing that wasn't facts except his views on homosexuality. Other than that, I can't complain

He cool with the butt-boy brigade hmmmm..

 

[Kilgore Trout]

No such thing as famous. He is uniting the rich black Americans so he can get a bigger factory to make his Umar Johnson action figures. Buy one to support black business.

@HebrewAllahTripleDarkness

 

[ahdsend]

Michelle Alexander, Cornell West, Kimberle Crenshaw, bell hooks, Katherine Cleaver, Jesse Jackson Sr (the RAINBOW Coalition is a Black Panther idea), Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and a lot of others..
People who have a solid body of work behind them, shyt even Boyce Watkins.
People who aren't using their audience to try and get fame, people who are genuinely working for our community

na, chicago panthers had reason for a coalition, cause there were multiple groups against daley and his red squad...

and chicagos the most racially segregated city in america...

jesse stole and trademarked that name, and its slogans without believing in its ideology...

we aint gotta go into his role in MLK's assassination, just look at the years since then...

he was big in neutralizing the afrocentric movement of the 80's and 90s when he came up wit the term 'african americans'...

as a way of gettin black folks to look to other communities for jobs... go to our enemies and beg for bread...

messy jesse is the epitome of a charlatan wit no track record of anything when it comes to black folks...

in a lotta ways hes the predecessor to barack obama...

and we seen in the last 7 years Barack has proven himself to be a white supremacist....

he used the "rainbow coalition" to get elected, and ends up doing things specifically for every single group EXCEPT black people...


http://www.psmag.com/books-and-cult...w-distinctions-african-americans-blacks-94554

White Americans are fine with African-Americans. Blacks, however, are a different story.

That’s the disturbing implication of a new study, which finds the way a person of color is labeled can impact how he or she is perceived.

"The stereotype content for blacks was significantly more negative than for African-Americans. In contrast, the stereotype content for African-Americans did not significantly differ in perceived negativity from that of whites."

Denise Oliver-Velez, a community activist and former member of the New York Black Panther Party and the New York Young Lords Party, declares that not only did Jackson appropriate the term “Rainbow Coalition,” but his rhetoric mirrors the slogan used by one of the organization's founders:

I'm glad you brought up the Rainbow Coalition 'cause... it's a bugaboo of mine, which most of you, when you hear the words Rainbow Coalition, you think Jesse Jackson. He co-opted that. I remember Fred Hamption was one of the best speakers I ever heard in my life. And Fred used to say, "I am a revolutionary, and I love all my people," and he would go through all the colors, black people, brown, red people and yellow people, and people would respond. And Jesse changed it to "I am somebody." There's a very big difference between "I am a revolutionary" and "I am somebody." And so, he has never credited Fred Hamption for taking the name Rainbow Coaltion, for the style, it's like he studied him and watered it down. Let's call spades a spade.

Other original Rainbow Coalition members, mostly Panthers, have dubbed Jackson "Jesse James Jackson" for what they believe to be his theft of the title.

The Original Rainbow Coalition: An Example of Universal Identity Politics

The Rainbow Coalition would eventually run candidates for political office. Its most successful candidate was Harold Washington, who was elected as Chicago’s first African American mayor in 1983 and he created what he called his “Rainbow Cabinet.” This cabinet was made up of founders and tenets of the Rainbow Coalition—people who for generations had been marginalized by city government. It included women, African Americans, Latinos, poor white ethnics, and the disabled. Later Jesse Jackson, who had no connection to the original Rainbow Coalition was inspired by Washington’s victory and thus appropriated and trademarked the coalition’s name and ran for president, which is why the term “Rainbow Coalition” is mostly associated with him. By trademarking the term, Jackson attempted to take ownership of a grassroots political movement that belonged to the people. Political consultant David Axelrod would later join the Washington reelection team that worked closely with Rainbow Coalition founders and organizers. Axelrod appropriated and enhanced Rainbow Coalition methods and rhetoric and applied them to media strategy, which he used to build his very successful political consulting career.

Axelrod’s niche is using the idealism of the Rainbow Coalition’s identity politics to persuade predominately white electorates to vote for black candidates. He helped to run the campaigns of many of the black candidates who ran for mayor, state senate, governor, or U.S. Senate between 1987-2008 and won. For example, he was involved in Dennis Archer’s ascension to mayor of Detroit, Michael White’s mayoral victory in Cleveland, Anthony Williams’s mayoral victory in Washington, D.C., Lee Brown’s mayoral victory in Houston, and John Street’s mayoral victory in Philadelphia. Axelrod was also behind Deval Patrick’s clinching of the governorship in Massachusetts and Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate victory in Illinois.

Obama was actually introduced to the ideals of Rainbow Coalition politics by David Axelrod after Obama’s only political defeat at the hands of the original Rainbow Coalition founder and former Illinois Black Panther, U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush from Illinois. Obama challenged the incumbent Rush by using a Black Nationalist agenda and approach. Rush used the Rainbow Coalition, which transcends race by locating commonalities, and defeated Obama by more than a 2-1 margin.

Unfortunately, however, among all these politicians only Harold Washington was married to the ideals and goals of the Rainbow Coalition. Jackson, Axelrod, and Obama were influenced by Washington’s use of the idealism of the original Rainbow Coalition’s identity politics, which proved to be an effective weapon for winning elections. Obama the candidate was right when he used the campaign slogan: “Change can’t happen without you.” The onus is on us to create hope and change, “an America we can believe in,” and “an America built to last.” We on the left must reclaim our ideal political identity, redefine the terms of our political agenda, hold those elected accountable, and make every attempt to elect to office those who are married to our ideal identity politics and not beholden to finance capital and other capitalist special interests.

Those who voted for President Obama represented the essence of the original Rainbow Coalition—people who united as a political force regardless of race, class, age, sex, religion, fraternal, political, or any other affiliations—which is the idealism of the group’s identity politics. But in the end, Obama the president exploited the ideals of the original Rainbow Coalition’s identity politics as a means to a political end rather than the foundations for revolutionary change/reform that the original Rainbow Coalition sought. The original Rainbow Coalition was a grassroots movement that helped people to build bridges in spite of their differences. It helped common people to actually see their commonalities and humanity. Today, we live in one of the most polarized periods in our nation’s history. One way that we may be able to reduce this gap is to shed the twenty-four-hour cable news cycle that has helped to mislead, shape, and control activists on both sides of the spectrum.

 

[Tryna Makit]

Never heard a word from dudes mouth, and probably never will....I formulate my own opinions and take pride that i cannot be swayed..but if he's uniting people and preaching positive vibes an' all that shyt let him cook. But he probably a fraud tho

 

[cheek100]

Invited him to Greensboro twice and didn't say nothing that wasn't facts except his views on homosexuality. Other than that, I can't complain

what did he say that u like?

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

@HebrewAllahTripleDarkness

The Prince of Pan-Afrikanism

With the Blood of Eldridge Cleaver

And the Soul of Two Out of Three Isley Brothers