There's a deep-seated sense of shame in many #ADOS that our ancestors were enslaved. It reveals itself when you hear ADOS say "I don't want to see anymore slave movies, etc." It's a stigma & a trauma that has to be avoided or rationalized.
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What many of us who are doing this #ADOS political work have come to see is, why should I hold onto shame for what happened to my ancestors being dragged to this nation?
We feel grief for their suffering. We feel anger over their historical, & our contemporary treatment; (2/x)
We feel grief for their suffering. We feel anger over their historical, & our contemporary treatment; (2/x)
It is the mortar that binds the bricks of this historical treatment, the bricks of the data that reveals the economic catastrophe facing 90% of ADOS America.
There are agents of chaos who have effectively poisoned the perception of #ADOS with fear, uncertainty & doubt. (3/x)
There are agents of chaos who have effectively poisoned the perception of #ADOS with fear, uncertainty & doubt. (3/x)
There's a tightrope that @WendellPierce is attempting to walk. He is well aware of Hollywood's use of British actors over Black American ones, hence his "advise" to a prideful younger actor thinking that he hit a triple.
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At the same time, he still wants to work his craft and not poison relationships, and any position adjacent to an #ADOS one, even if it is the truth, and even if the rationale ARE FOR THE SAME REASONS, are taboo & demands a follow-up rebuke. (5/x)
This whole environment of anti-#ADOS defamation is absolutely disgusting.
We are a people with cratered income & more notably, wealth. A people accelerating toward mass poverty & refugee status, as more of us lose the ability to afford to live in American cities. (6/x)
We are a people with cratered income & more notably, wealth. A people accelerating toward mass poverty & refugee status, as more of us lose the ability to afford to live in American cities. (6/x)
With the reality of economic conditions so stark, it's absolutely mind-blowing that we are being scolded to shut up & vote & continue to harbor low political expectations in a nation that our ancestors' stolen labor & torture built into the richest country in the world. (7/x)
To literally be told by a former president that politics are not transactional when entire lifetimes of evidence have shown us that it clearly is, reveals more than shame, it reveals the deep-seated *contempt* that others have for working poor & poor #ADOS. (+) (8/x)
Pierce can observe the threats & hubris that other Blacks of the diaspora have when it comes to Black American roles, but we are scolded & have to be politically marginalized & quarantined when we work to do so for our own material needs. (+) (9/x)
It remains gross. It remains cruel in a world where everyone wants to pretend as if the world was created yesterday. In a world where the only viable solution for #ADOS is #Reparations incl. direct cash/resource payments & a robust Black agenda. (10/x)
We exist in a world where Black American actors such as Mr. Pierce can look out for his and the professional interests of others of his group, but the poor & working poor pressing for *specific interests* owed to ours is an unspeakable taboo. NO MORE. (11/x)
We no longer can care what others think, if others refuse to join us. If our so-called brothers & sisters are so weak-minded to believe any & every flimsy lie & half-truth & speculation to avoid #ADOS?
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We will agitate & we will win. We're fighting for a collective, even as they cannot see it.
#ADOS #ADOSRising (13/.)
#ADOS #ADOSRising (13/.)
