Dr. Umar Johnson, the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pan-Africanism,” may come off extra like a court docket jester more often than not, however he stays constant on one factor. That man is vehemently anti-swirl. (Properly, there was that one time he received caught ki-ki-ing with a Karen on the mall, however he was most likely simply getting his cellphone fastened, as he mentioned.)
Not too long ago, Johnson made an look on Joe Budden’s podcast and received right into a heated change with co-host Antwan “Ish” Marby over the truth that Marby has a white girlfriend and, apparently, engages within the jungle fever-influenced exercise Umar known as “bunny hopping.”
“The rationale you don’t have any enterprise being with a Caucasian girl is though she nor her household could have participated in our oppression instantly, she advantages from it,” Umar mentioned to Ish.
Earlier within the episode, Ish talked about that his girlfriend is definitely Portuguese, however that didn’t assist his argument a lot as Johnson identified that it was the Portuguese who constructed the primary slave dungeons in Africa.
“I do know she received racism in her veins due to the Portuguese function within the slave commerce,” Johnson mentioned of Ish’s girlfriend.
Predictably, the controversy from Budden’s podcast spilled over into social media. On X, opinions have been break up between of us who thought Johnson was being loud, improper and characteristically hotepish and people from the crew, “If she will be able to’t use your comb, don’t carry her residence.”
Facet word: It was talked about through the episode that Africans additionally offered different Africans into slavery, which makes this nearly as good a time as any to say that it occurred whereas the continent was being colonized and Western nations drove up the demand at no cost slave labor to some extent the place they created a large worldwide and intergenerational system of slavery that pre-colonial African leaders couldn’t probably have conceived of. Simply saying the historic context there’s necessary.
So, what do y’all take into consideration what Dr. Umar needed to say about “bunny hopping?” Was he trippin’, or was this a kind of uncommon moments the place he was utterly proper a couple of factor? Tell us what you suppose within the feedback.
