1)I will bookmark this page and find the videos where he mentioned the existence of his children and the existence of their mothers. Believe it was a BC video after the stripper story. I will eventually find it and post it though.
2)Even Umar would say that his situation is not the ideal one. He's a very well educated man. He's trained in field that can help young men, HOWEVER he's made a series of unwise life choices. These choices contradict his points about strong Black families. He made the choice to create children with women that he wasn't married to. If there's anything that's fractured the Black family unit, it's people deciding to do this.
3) see number 2.
4) He's an intelligent adult. He speaks about the topics for the show. Colin Kap.'s decision to kneel during the anthem has brought a lot of social issues to the forefront of sports. Shannon shares HIS opinion about the topics. He's on the show because he has credibility about sports topics. When the topic is sports, he speaks. When the topic shifts to something else, an an intelligent adult....he speaks about those topics. Are you trying to imply that because he speaks about certain things that he's trying to be something else ?
5) These tweets are him trying to ride the Shannon Sharpe wave. Again, I was surprised to see SS's wife but there is/was no reason for Umar to call him out.Perhaps pandering to his lecture tour audience who are probably high percentage of Black women. Rich Black athlete with white wife is a good punching bag for Umar to pander to that group.
1) Understood. So until then, are you able to refrain from using examples that you cannot prove moving forward whether in this discussion or other Umar topics?
2)OK, but I'm asking whether a "good" role model for Black boys are only those who live in the same household?
3) again. I don't know his family dynamics and you haven't provided the proof yet to suggest that your opinions are based on facts. We have already seen in most Umar threads how common acts are deemed unacceptable, when done by Umar, but not the average joe. So that's why I ask, the notion of "we tried and it didn't work out" shouldn't be applied to Umar's relationship failures, but is commonly applied to others' relationship failure, because he talmbowt how to effectively counter White supremacy via Black family?
4)No, I'm addressing your original point "Shannon Sharpe doesn't promote himself as anything other than a football player and show host." This is not true, which is why he's getting a lot of respect and admiration, rightfully so.
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it's funny to say that he's pandering, while having "Black people" tell him that open love doesn't undermine Black empowerment, despite we all knowing that he has examples that proves his ideology is correct
Even before Roland Martin show, Umar has spoken about the importance of Black marriages and unions, regardless of what you've done for Black folks. So he is constantly given examples via social media and especially at his lectures, I certainly witnessed it, of Black folks doing good things for Black people, while not marrying one. So why would you assume it's just a random critique for him to ride Shannon's wave, and not yet another example given to him to see how consistent he is about his views?
