Thread by @BreakingBrown

#ADOS isn’t just a reparations movt, but a need for reparations explained thru the lens of historic income inequality & wealth calcification, and understanding that as whites r inheriting wealth, we’re inheriting the poverty of accrued disadvantage & bottom caste existence 🇺🇸

1) So the criticism of “reparations advocacy didn’t start with #ADOS!” is a misnomer. We never claimed that. But we did use the inequality work of economists like Piketty & Darity to show that money comes thru inheritance now, not labor & there is no catching up. 🇺🇸

2) We dealt a death blow to do-for-selferism, showing thru Darity‘s work & others that #ADOS disadvantage is not the result of cultural deficits & thus, cant be fixed through individual agency or effort.

3) We showed that mass incarceration is an intentional destabilizing and disruptive social engineering tool to maintain #ADOS as a bottom caste. Mass incarceration, especially of Black men at such a high right, is indicative of social collapse 🇺🇸#LineageMatters

4.) We reduced confusion by carving out our particular oppressive experience as AMERICAN chattel & descendants thereof, & did the math on our contribution, not just as slaves in general, but slaves who built the richest country in the world. #ADOS #Reparations2020 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

5.) We used data to upend the “white people are poor too claim!”, showing that whereas there is a *class* of poor whites,#ADOS are FLAT economically. Black poverty and white poverty r not the same. 🇺🇸#LineageMatters #DataMatters

6.) Thru the language of plugs and outlets, we explained that education does not fix us. You need opportunities, which often requires plugging🔌 into social capital, which means accessing whiteness. #ADOS 🇺🇸

@tonetalks interview with Byron Allen squashed the idea that America runs on green or that all money is the same. White networks can still shut u out as an #ADOS millionaire or billionaire, which means our opportunity requires govt intervention, protection & redistribution 🇺🇸

8.) We confronted Africaness thru the lens of truth. Being honest about all the players in the slave trade. And confronted the idea that solidarity comes thru melanin as opposed to thru shared ideology & vision. #ADOS #Reparations2020 #LineageMatters 🇺🇸

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I could go on with the ways we expressed an urgent need for reparations through a 21st century, globalized lens. So debating who advocated for reparations first and jockeying for power is silly. Either ur onboard w/ us or ur not. Either ur here to help or tear us down. #ADOS