I was dragged to an Umar lecture by a friend back in May. The herd was definitely thin compared to his past few lectures that I attended. It got to his ego because he mentioned that people were out celebrating Mother's Day so attendance was lower.
During the lecture, he had the audacity to take suggestions on the school location/site from the crowd. People were offering suggestions like DC, Hagerstown, Philly, and other places I can't recall. He had an excuse for each one mainly that the Black population is too low or renovation costs too high.
Afterwards, me and my friend were headed to dinner and I overheard a man saying "Umar ain't building that damn school". Me and my friend laughed so much. DC has a few small, private Black schools but for some reason Umar wants to come out the gate with a big idea instead of starting out small like the ones here. He doesn't have that kind of money or resources.
