All My Skinfolk Ain't Kinfolk : The Need to Approach Black Patriarchal Male Leadership Skeptically
From: https://rhoadestoreality.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/all-my-skinfolk-aint-kinfolk-the-need-to-approach-black-patriarchal-male-leadership-skeptically-pt-2/
June 25, 2014
If you have been donating toReverend Deke O'Malley Dr Umar Johnson, I'm not saying that you have been swindled, BUT something doesn't add up here. According to Dr. Umar Johnson, he was given until August 21st to raise $5 million to purchase the defunct for HBCU, St. Paul's College. In his video he pleads and implores his audience to donate so that he can purchase the 135 acres and 31 buildings that was once housed and educated so many. Several blogs and even Black Enterprise's Be Smart Blog were so enthusiastic about Johnson's scant proposal for the purchase of the campus and the opening of his Frederick Douglas & Marcus Garvey RGB International Leadership Academy that none bothered to ask any tough questions. They couldn't muster the least bit of skepticism. And that is unfortunate because as it turns out today 135 acres of St. Paul's College and the Student Center were scheduled to be auctioned off today.
What are we raising money for again? Cause something in the milk ain't clean.
And today (unless there were no bids) St. Paul's College, most of it anyway, has likely been sold. So was Johnson lying when he stated that he was given until August 21st? Was he lying about trying to purchase the entire campus? Did he only intend part of the $5 million to purchase part of St. Paul's and intend the rest toward the maintenance and the starting of his school? These are questions only Johnson can answer. Maybe another look at the video where he requests donations can give us a clue.
That's right ladies and gentleman. Dr. Umar Johnson stated:
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June 25, 2014
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What are we raising money for again? Cause something in the milk ain't clean.
And today (unless there were no bids) St. Paul's College, most of it anyway, has likely been sold. So was Johnson lying when he stated that he was given until August 21st? Was he lying about trying to purchase the entire campus? Did he only intend part of the $5 million to purchase part of St. Paul's and intend the rest toward the maintenance and the starting of his school? These are questions only Johnson can answer. Maybe another look at the video where he requests donations can give us a clue.
That's right ladies and gentleman. Dr. Umar Johnson stated:
"I am here at the historic St. Paul's College. This beautiful campus, 135 acres of which I hope to make the Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey RBG International Leadership Academy for African Children... I am hoping that you will help me keep this college in the hands of the African American community... We need this 135 acres for our children. We have the dormitories. We have the gymnasium. We have the lecture halls. We have the cafeteria. We have the beautiful student center..."
Does he mean this student center?
Seriously?
I can't say for sure what his intentions were or are but I think those of you that have donated have the right to demand to know what will be done with the $100,000 that he has supposedly raised so far. Johnson has demonstrated once again how easy it is for us to be duped by charismatic male leadership especially when they manipulate us via our hopes and/or fears. Many of us were swayed when he stated:
"I want this school to be a blueprint, a role model to every other independent African school in the world, to show them that African children are not the intellectual inferiors of European Americans."
Looks like we need a better architect.
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