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Thanks to @sahilkapur for the quote. The ignorance and hostility is breathtaking. Let’s take this apart.
1/ Barack Obama was not Black America’s reparations, just as previous white presidents didn’t not represent a payment to White America
# ADOS
1/ Barack Obama was not Black America’s reparations, just as previous white presidents didn’t not represent a payment to White America
# ADOS
2/ Slavery was just the beginning of the cost to American Descendants of Slaves. We live with the accrued disadvantage from slavery/ Jim Crow /redlining / convict leasing etc. The past is forever with us. The racial wealth gap is the lens thru which we can easiest count that cost
3/ America didn’t try hard enough after the Civil War. Instead of redistributing land to former slaves, America gave power, resources & land back to Confederates. America failed. Not my problem. Fix it. #LineageMatters #ADOS 🇺🇸
4/ Immigrants came here voluntarily & didn’t build this country or endure 400 CONSECUTIVE years of oppression, nor have they been this country’s garbage disposal during that entire span. Immigrants aren’t owed a debt from 🇺🇸. Again, not my problem. #ADOS #LineageMatters
5/ And this idea that White America did nothing wrong and thus, is not responsible, is the most monstrous of lies. Every time an #ADOS neighborhood gets a cancer causing plant & u get a picket fence, & u utter not one word in protest, ur responsible. U know it. So do I.
