lol never claimed to be a fan. In all honesty I can't take majority of these new "black scholars" serious. They have literally no credentials and just churn out tons of books. When you look at the Black Scholars of the past their resumes showed that they lived in the areas they talk about doing research, taught at the top Universities in the world, studied with the top non black scholars, and also debated non black scholars, along with putting out books and doing lectures. The new gen of people literally read some wikipedia info and write books, and claim they are so much more intelligent than their peers. The thing I give Tariq is he never claims to be an expert, he more so uses Hidden Colors to get the actual experts together to speak on various topics. Essentially he is just a normal dude, who gives his opinion when someone asks for it, and he never claims to be some expert scholar or leader. So I always say how can someone hate on someone just being themselves? IMO its one thing if you had Al Sharpton type preaching one thing and doing something else, but Tariq is literally know different than your uncle or cousin giving you his opinion on a subject.