During a recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, Pan-Africanist motivational speaker, Dr. Umar Johnson expressed his resentment over Eminem’s Greatest Of All Time status and accused Eminem for not helping black community by building schools and hospitals.
“No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors. It’s an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person. Do you think I can go to Palestine and be the best of anything of Palestinian culture? You never see that. You think I can go to Israel and be the best of anything in Israel whether it be a cook, an instrumentalist, a dancer? Hell no. We have to stop naming non-African people as being the best of any aspect in our cultural product because it’s an insult. I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy bro. I don’t see Eminem building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Khaled building schools and hospitals. I don’t see DJ Vlad doing none of them.” – said Dr. Umar.
In response to him, @OIIie_X account on X, pulled off the official documents of Eminem’s donations to the community through the years which includes donations for impoverished kids, people with drug abuse and mental illness, preventing gun violence, contribute to music education, etc. Eminem never talks about any of these donations. He never advertises it. You don’t see him boasting about it.
In 2002, Eminem’s The Marshall Mather Foundation donated $23,500.
In 2003: $97,500
In 2004: $120,500
In 2005: $278,000
In 2006: $113,262
In 2007: NOT AVAILABLE
In 2008: NOT AVAILABLE
In 2009: $60,053
In 2010: $23,500
In 2011: $264,619
In 2012: $106,950
In 2013: $165,085
In 2014: $156,333
In 2015: $154,332
In 2016: $163,671
In 2017: $585,153
In 2018: $174,181
In 2019: $194,936
In 2020: $1,345,874
In 2021: $230,818
In 2022: NOT AVAILABLE
In 2023: NOT AVAILABLE
TOTAL: $4,092,317 (For more detailed information, visit ProPublica here.)
DJ Vlad also responded to Dr. Umar by sharing a flashback video from 2016, where Dr. Umar Johnson offered his thoughts on education and the African American community, as well as his plans to open up his own school. In the tweet, Vlad captioned: “Dr. Umar Johnson Took Donations for School 7 Years Ago, Still Hasn’t Opened.”
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Umar Johnson Took Donations for School 7 Years Ago, Still Hasn’t Opened (Flashback) https://t.co/6KvqK3XZmD
— DJ Vlad 🇺🇦 (@djvlad) December 26, 2023