But unfortunately this is the sort of elementary school critical thinking skills that Tariq knows he can pull on his audience, and folks like him know social media and the insecure losers who frequent it are a powerful weapon for failed media personalities like himself.
The first time I heard of this guy was when he was appearing on damn Late Nite eith Conan O'Brien nearly 20 years ago, promoting his book during the whole PUA craze. Before that I heard he was a MTV VJ. Then he became a pan-african thought leader who couldn't even debate Tucker Carlson. The truth is the man has taken to being a pro-black right wing propagandist on Twitter because he failed at being the mainstream "butter biscuit" corporate liberal "shill" he now profits out of criticizing.
He tried to broker political ties with other folks of the diaspora, but like you said, didn't realize the stupid shyt that works with his audience sounds ridiculous to people who actually work in the realities of politics and economics. But of course he took it as a personal attack.
Same with getting scammed in other countries. Something that naturally happens to all Americans traveling abroad regardless of ethnicity or even the country. But of course he can finesse his audience by adding it to his "FBA" narrative, even if it means pitting people against each other.
Dude is a grade A narcissist for real.
Yeah all this is true. He has zero moral core or principles and is nothing more than a YouTube demagogue that has managed to find a niche audience to exploit and manipulate.
He is charismatic and a very good communicator who just feels out and market tests what flavor of grift he wants to go with and acts according.
He did the PUA/macking stuff cause that was the wave at the time. He saw that there was a market of young Black guys who don’t get a lot of puss and/or had bad relationship experiences with women and may be socially maladjusted a bit, and wrote his little mack lessons.
Then he saw that same audience was shifting toward the pro-Black tip, and found a way to update and repackage Afrocentric thought and conspiratorial stuff like The Isis Papers, Ivan Van Sertima prominent throughout bookstores and hood politics throughout the 80’s and 90’s with his HC films.
He just makes up his ideology as he goes along because his ideology is anything that will convince his supporters to empty their pockets for him. That’s why he always selling you something and working on his next thing to sell you….just like the infomercial guy screaming about how this cleaning product will remove any stain, the televangelist trying to sell you a prayer cloth, or Steve Bannon scamming Trump supporters into paying for a border wall that never happened.
It is amazes me how one can become so brainwashed by propaganda that they willingly give to and support a guy whose business model is get you to fund his the capital costs of his retail business ventures and then get you to purchase the products he made that you already funded.
How is that not literally a scam by definition?
What kinda business model works this way? There’s people here who will literally brag about getting exploited and fukked in the ass by their daddy, funding this charlatan on the front and back end while he sits in a mansion with his white grandma.
He has NO principles. He knows his primary demographic, mostly Black men ages teen to 40ish who a grievance about one thing or another, and all he does is work to find ways to exploit that. No altruism is involved.
He’s reached a point now where he sees his only lane left is Black MAGA now, that’s why he’s gone full-on authoritarian and socially right wing.
the first time I heard it
when black posters said where's that energy for n1gga and n1gger.
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