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diallokenyatta · 5 years ago

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Bro Diallo can you chart how Umar Johnson aka Jermaine Shoemake went from being a respected public speaker and advocate of Black issues and agendas, to the butt of jokes on the internet regarding Black consciousness? There are dozens of youtube channels dedicated to either clowning him or exposing him. On twitter he's little more than a meme. Some say he's on drugs, others say he's a crazed con-man. What happened?

I don’t know anything about him doing drugs. I would call him a ConMan because he’s actively engaged in the deception of the public to get them to contribute money to him under false pretenses, and I believe he’s still actively engaged in the Con by giving false updates about the FDMG Academy. But my issue with Dr. Umar isn’t really centered around the ongoing School Con he’s pulling, my beef with him is ideological, and I think his flawed ideology & Demagogary are at the root of all of his other issues; so that’s what I’ll speak on.

Dr. Umar was ultimately self-defeating. He built up a moralist, puritanical persona and failed to embody the very principles of manhood, family, and the discipline he advocated for and falsely told the Black community were the paths to empowerment and freedom. Dr. Umar only rose to prominence by engaging in what I have come to call Black Puritanism. Black people are primed by the Dominate System to have certain core beliefs about sex, gender roles, family, work, material value, education, and morality. Many Militant Black Leaders who claim to not only oppose White Western Culture but to be African Centered or Pan-African fully embrace the core practices and beliefs of White Western Culture, they simply infuse it with Black Militant Rhetoric and African esthetics, but at the core, it’s Western, Judeo-Christian ideology; that’s Black Puritanism.

Umar exploited the fears and indoctrination of the Black masses, he didn’t educate our people, he encouraged our people to be more regressive, not Revolutionary. If you remove all of the Black Militant Rhetoric and the African Aesthetics from his teachings you will have an ideology that is identical to Racist organizations like the Republican Party, Focus on the Family, the Proud Boys, & most other Neo-Fascist & Far-Right organizations. Also, just like the Far-Right Demagogues he mimics; he does the opposite of what he professes and teaches. From lying about celibacy to failing to marry the women he impregnates, to pursuing sex with the very type of women he rebukes (strippers, women with perms, etc.). Dr. Umar shuns Christianity and other “Slave Religions,�� but his rebuke of homosexuality is drawn directly from those Slave Religions. Dr. Umar is a Ph.D., but fails to give an academic, evidence-based source for his claims about the harm homosexuality is doing to the Black community or Black manhood. I personally have been asking him, his supporters, and the larger Black Straight Pride Movement for a secular, rational, evidence-based support for their claims and condemnations for years. They call me a homosexual for simply making the inquiry. Dr. Umar’s methods and positions are an easy, quick, and profitable way to prominence and power within the Black community, but it’s a circular path, not a progressive one, it causes the Leaders who do this to take us in a circle where we always end up where we started. Many of his defenders like to point out the areas where Umar has been correct like in the over-drugging of Black youth for “behavioral issues,” and the criminalization of Black youth; and he should be commended for that, but when you use the accolades and attention you gain for accurate teachings to manipulate and fleece the public while trying to erect a cult following you deserve to be called out. Again, it’s Umar’s own misdeeds and lunacy that detracts from the good works he’s done, not his opponents and critics. As Dr. Umar or any Black Demagogue remains prominent and their views and teachings become better known outside their core followers they always evolve into caricatures of Black Militancy because their teachings can’t stand up to critical analysis or any form of intelligent scrutiny. Since hey can’t fight back academically or intellectually they start ranting and raving, making wild accusations about their challengers, threatening detractors, and a develop a Martyr Complex; in nutshell: They Go Crazy. Dr. Umar isn’t the first to go through this spiral, nor will he be the last. At this stage some Black Demagogues fade into obscurity, others manage to hold on to some level of prominence but their influence is greatly reduced, some Demagogues like Minister Farakahn constantly morph their positions and adopt new (still irrational, but new) positions to remain relevant. But the more rigid the Demagogue is the more insane they appear and the smaller their circle of influence becomes.

If you want to help Dr. Umar here are some suggestions, it won’t be a complete list but it’ll go a long way towards Dr. Umar actually making a Positive Contributions to the Just Aspirations of African People, and truly advancing the Pan-African Struggle: 1. Don’t center yourself when it comes to educating, uplifting, or leading the community; make the ideas and agendas the core. Men are flawed and we’ll all eventually fall, but the ideology and mission should be beyond any individual. Pan-Africanism doesn't need a “Prince,” it needs rational, committed organizers. 2. Don’t tout your personal morality as a reason anyone should follow you; especially if you don’t actually follow that personal morality! Your analysis, the viability of your agendas, your commitment to the protracted struggle should be what you offer and be used to measure your worthiness, not who you have (consensual) sex with or how you have sex, or any of the other shit Umar lied about. If your personal “outlets” don’t detract from the movement, then keep it to yourself. No one would have given a damn about Umar’s relationship with a Stripper if he hadn’t sold himself as the embodiment of sexual morality and restraint; he made it an issue, not his detractors. 3. If you can’t defend a position, rework or abandon it. Be teachable. 4. Everyone who criticizes you isn’t your enemy. Never threaten anyone online, never threaten or commit violence against another Black person based on verbal or ideological disagreements. 5. Stop competing with other public figures, and only debate the merits and efficacy if their ideas, conclusions, and agendas. 6. Stop attacking the mothers of your children on social media! Stop attacking Black women. Stop...just stop. 7. Stop projecting your insecurities with your own masculinity onto Black women and LGBTQAI+ community. 8. Let go of the Alpha Male persona, there’s no value to be found within it. 9. Stop giving yourself titles of esteem, if the community wants to bestow titles upon you accept them with humility & live up to them. 10. Open the school, redirect the funds you raised to another project of equal value to the community, or return the funds to your supports. Set a hard deadline for doing one of the three listed here. Finally; I can’t be too hard on Dr. Umar, cuz I held many of the views and engaged in some of the behaviors that I criticize him for (I never dupped the Hood outta $500Gs, nothing that horrible). But I had people who were patient with me and willing to educate me, if not I’d probably be spewing the same BS as him well into my 30s and beyond. So, I always try to root some real insights and guidance in my criticisms and mockery of Dr. Umar in the hope that he can learn and grow. www.diallokenyattta.com www.patreon.com/diallokenyatta #BroDiallo

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deanmullenfilms · 8 years ago

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CONGRESS APPROVES OF THE ‘RIGHTS OF ANIMALS ACT’

**The following article is fictional**

Thiago Lain

Editor

July 17th, 2079

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The ‘Rights of Animals Act’ (Pub. L. 146-223; 18 U.S.C & Ch. 7) was passed by the senate today with 67 in favour, 32 against and 1 abstention in the form of independent senator Elsie Wynn of Tennessee. President Grassi welcomed the decision describing it as a ‘reflection of America’s willingness to lead on relevant issues despite the rhetoric of today’s world’. The United States has become only the fourth nation to implement legal rights for non-human species following the introduction of such legislation in Switzerland, Catalonia and initially in Iceland who controversially banned its reasonably popular localized fishing tradition with a sweeping ban on all forms of animal exploitation in March 2074.

Today’s act bans small-scale fishing, the usage of animals for sport including horse racing and the act even outlaws dog shows. However if you have a cuddly friend at home as your household pet you need not worry of the national guard knocking down your door any time soon. The ARA as many activists in the animal rights community have referred to this act does not abolish pet ownership (although technically we should now say 'pet stewardship’) since it is treated in a similar light to adopting a child whereby it is acceptable for an adult to have power over their child and yet that is of course not seen as slavery or exploitation. Although don’t try make money off of your pet or else you could, at least in theory find yourself in trouble with the law. All the while with the capacity of modern CGI, the film industry is largely speaking not fazed by this new era.

(The famous CGI cats from the 2073 comedy ‘A House of Hairballs’)

Filmmaker Leon Gray who produced the academy award-winning film Blue Race, the poignant true story of a Bangladeshi family caught in the devastating floods of 2048 was asked by one of our reporters Lana Cooper on Wednesday regarding his thoughts on the prospect of this act. Gray asserted that he’s not concerned. 'Nah, it doesn’t worry me. Barely any filmmakers use actual animals in films anymore. I don’t think it’s a big loss, you know?’ Despite Gray’s coolness, Director Josh Berger attacked him last night with his snappy RawU post 'Gray bro, I love you!! No really I do but come on?! CGI will never replace the real thing. There’s something special about having an actual real life animal on the screen. People aren’t stupid. No matter how real CGI looks, people can tell the difference. These animal rights people will never be happy. Should we ban child actors now too??’. Gray wasn’t the only one displeased with the introduction of the act. Former President Rain Gordon and current editor at the libertarian news outlet 'Free Fifty’ wrote quite a lengthy article two nights ago bemoaning the 'likely passage of this unnecessary act’. Gordon wasn’t necessarily suggesting that sports like horse racing should not face the axe eventually but he did believe giving actual rights to non-humans was too sudden of a move and that 'the government (was) in the business of getting things out of the way for the purpose of political efficiency at the expense of the ordinary citizen’.

This was the second attempt by Senator Daniel Campbell (D) of California to introduce this groundbreaking animal legislation. Campbell first introduced a similar bill known as the 'Non-human legal status bill’ in November 2075. The bill failed in the Lib-Rep majority congress. A handful of Lib-Reps did approve of the bill in the house but this was more than counterbalanced by the 11 democrats and 2 independents who either voted against or abstained from voting on the motion. The bill thus failed with 167 approving, 20 abstentions and a substantial disapproval with 248 against (or about 57% of the house). However, for the approval of this second bill it was time and a political shift that’s seemed to have counted the most. The changes in the new bill itself were slight and most importantly in its title than anything. This time the bill passed a democrat majority house, while more than 1 in 3 Lib Reps and 2 of the 3 right-wing independents also approved of the motion; 298 in favour, 4 abstentions and 133 against. That means the bill passed with a confident 68% house approval. Similarly 67 of the 100 senators of congress also approved so it may be of some comfort to animal rights activists to know that even if this bill required super-majorities it would have passed.

The days of the harsher forms of animal exploitation which many consider to have been atrocities such as livestock farming, fur farming and animal experimentation now seem long gone. For those of us who were around from the peak of the conventional meat industry in the earlier part of the 21st century and its inevitable fall to cultured meat and with the outlawing of factory farming, this act seems like merely the conclusion of a quieter after-argument, the mere aftershock of a magnitude eight earthquake. The legislation will fully come in to effect over a two year period, specifically to give time for organizations and companies based in activities outlawed as a result to phase themselves out. The government also guarantees compensation, which is to be attributed to individuals and companies affected proportionate to their operating income with the possibility of a case by case evaluation from their district court although a judge must first approve of a full court hearing which will be determined on the basis of whether the claims of the individual or individuals concerned appears to substantiate a reasonable case for a higher amount of compensation than is being initially offered by the government to said party. It would seem a day of glory for the animal rights movement both in the United States and across the world and while many activists are indeed celebrating (both online and offline), many remain humble and focused on yes, even more change. So perhaps the answer to Josh Berger’s question is never?

Head of the 'American Anti-Speciesist Society’ Owen Cole told us over a skype call from his Seattle flat that 'While obviously now we have achieved the rights of non-human animals in law and that is a success that really can’t be understated, we as activists have a duty to ensure that not only is this legislation properly enforced but that the punishment fits the crime, that is of course across the board for animal abuse, cruelty and exploitation. If a person tortures a cat, we want to make sure that person faces a substantial prison sentence and not just a slap on the wrist…. And sometimes they do but sometimes they don’t. The sort of sentences that animal abusers get in the United States varies greatly, right? And personally I think it’s more so than in any other area of criminality. Like, you know one person abuses an animal and they might get say six years, then another person in some other part of the country does pretty much the same thing and they might only get a small fine. That’s the sort of thing we need to focus on here’.

Cole and others are also concerned with global efforts to end animal exploitation. Many of them will also turn much of their attention to the introduction of similar legislation across the world and also to at the very least outlaw practices such as fur farming and animal circuses which are still allowed in some countries despite the majority of nations banning such practices in the first half of the century. Another emerging debate in the animal rights movement or 'anti-speciesist movement’ as Cole insisted we should label it and that is the question of wild animal suffering and whether humans should intervene. It’s proving a hot topic in the community and with/among environmentalists with no clear opinion seeming to hold a strong majority in either case. Of course the technology for such hypothetical interventions does not seem to be here yet, at least not on the scale that some proponents have discussed in the articles I’ve read and the videos I’ve watched on this subject. Perhaps with the end of one era of animal rights, we are now entering a whole new one and we’ll be discussing 'The Wild Animal Intervention Act’ in 2139. Only time will tell.

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deanmullenfilms · 8 years ago

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CONGRESS APPROVES OF THE ‘RIGHTS OF ANIMALS ACT’

*The following article is fictional*

Thiago Lain

Editor

July 17th, 2079

_________________________________________

The ‘Rights of Animals Act’ (Pub. L. 146-223; 18 U.S.C & Ch. 7) was passed by the senate today with 67 in favour, 32 against and 1 abstention in the form of independent senator Elsie Wynn of Tennessee. President Grassi welcomed the decision describing it as a 'reflection of America’s willingness to lead on relevant issues despite the rhetoric of today’s world’. The United States has become only the fourth nation to implement legal rights for non-human species following the introduction of such legislation in Switzerland, Catalonia and initially in Iceland who controversially banned its reasonably popular localized fishing tradition with a sweeping ban on all forms of animal exploitation in March 2074.

(The famous CGI cats from the 2073 comedy ‘A House of Hairballs’)

This was the second attempt by Senator Daniel Campbell (D) of California to introduce this groundbreaking animal legislation. Campbell first introduced a similar bill known as the 'Non-human legal status bill’ in November 2075. The bill failed in the Lib-Rep majority congress. A handful of Lib-Reps did approve of the bill in the house but this was more than counterbalanced by the 11 democrats and 2 independents who either voted against or abstained from voting on the motion. The bill thus failed with 167 approving, 20 abstentions and a substantial disapproval with 248 against (or about 57% of the house). However, for the approval of this second bill it was time and a political shift that’s seemed to have counted the most. The changes in the new bill itself were slight and most importantly in its title more than anything. This time the bill passed a democrat majority house, while more than 1 in 3 Lib Reps and 2 of the 3 right-wing independents also approved of the motion; 298 in favour, 4 abstentions and 133 against. That means the bill passed with a confident 68% house approval. Similarly 67 of the 100 senators of congress also approved so it may be of some comfort to animal rights activists to know that even if this bill required super-majorities it would have passed.

The days of the harsher forms of animal exploitation which many consider to have been atrocities such as livestock farming, fur farming and animal experimentation now seem long gone. For those of us who were around from the peak of the conventional meat industry in the earlier part of the 21st century and its inevitable fall to cultured meat and with the outlawing of factory farming, this act seems like merely the conclusion of a quieter after-argument, an aftershock following the magnitude eight earthquake. The legislation will fully come in to effect over a two year period, specifically to give time for organizations and companies based in activities outlawed as a result to phase themselves out. The government also guarantees compensation, which is to be attributed to individuals and companies affected proportionate to their operating income with the possibility of a case by case evaluation from their district court although a judge must first approve of a full court hearing which will be determined on the basis of whether the claims of the individual or individuals concerned appears to substantiate a reasonable case for a higher amount of compensation than is being initially offered by the government to said party. It would seem a day of glory for the animal rights movement both in the United States and across the world and while many activists are indeed celebrating (both online and offline), many remain humble and focused on yes, even more change. So perhaps the answer to Josh Berger’s question is never?

Let us know below if you have an opinion on the Rights of Animals Act!

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