An interview with Dr. Umar Johnson has not only gone viral in part because of the noted Pan-Afrikan psychologist’s views he shared addressing the dynamics of heterosexual relationships between Black people.
The interview with the Daily Rap Up Crew podcast was published on YouTube last Friday and featured its hosts peppering Johnson with questions on various topics that included but were not limited to self-hate in the Black community, President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, slavery, voting, HBCUs and reproductive rights.
But it was the conversation’s attention to Black men and women and the nature of their relationships with each other that caught social media’s attention most and propelled it to go viral.
Always a major promoter of Black-on-Black love, Johnson offered some sobering views about how he says Black men treat Black women.
What did Umar Johnson say?
“At the end of the day, if I’m going to call myself a man, the ultimate responsibility for the reconstruction of the Black community rests with me,” Johnson told the Daily Rap Up Crew podcast’s three hosts. “Yes, they [Black women] have a role. Yes, they have responsibility. But as a man — as a leader — to say ‘I can’t fix this shit unless she changes’ — that’s not the definition of a man.”
The Daily Rap Up Crew’s hosts, three Black men, pushed back on Johnson’s assertions and complained that Black men “have to deal with masculine women” within the family structure.
“Why is she masculine? Because she had to raise the kids alone, I’m telling you, mistakes made by Black men systemically gave rise to the conditions that allowed her to be masculine and made her end up with a man that you consider to be less than he should be,” Johnson said. “And I’m telling you, Black men are responsible for her being masculine because we have not helped her raise them children.”
Johnson continued: “The Black woman has been the be-all, end-all…
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