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22 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
In recent events & during these heated-up political times (and it's gonna get hotter), a LOT of awful back-and-forth has gone down w/BTP and #ADOS.

The writer known as Paul Sowers has been called "out-of-pocket" in the kindest, & a whole lot of uglier things beyond that... (1/x)
...and none of those ugly things are true. This man is a good dude, he's long recognized the brilliance of the #ADOS founders, & he's written passionately on the justice of the demands of ADOS people.

And despite all of the this-and-that, the debt remains unpaid. (2/x)
The demonization...twisting the words that an anti-racist man is a "white supremacist" or somehow is controlling the organization?

None of that is true, & all it does is play on the bigotries of those more concerned with closing racial ranks. (3/x)
I'm praying that we all remember that we're dealing with human beings here.

The stakes are high: ADOS people are being starved out of America.

Philosophical & ideological disagreements happen. Separations, whether they're wanted or not...are going to happen. (4/x)
Those who have been alienated & pushed out, continue your work separately. For those still in & committed to #ADOS: *push for justice.*

Don't quit. (5/x)
I consider Paul a friend.

He's a great writer.

(6/x)
I'm sorry that all of these ugly things have been said, & I'm sorry that I didn't respond sooner when these things were said.

These battles are exhausting, & a distraction from the #First100Days & the #Harvard misinformation under the imprimatur of academe. (7/x)

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24 Jan
Aiwuyor's "Understanding ADOS" was flawed from the start because from its base, it came from charges that the movement might be funded from right-wing interests because Yvette Carnell wore a MAGA hat (as a prop device) on a livestream & an Ann Coulter tweet. (1)
On top of that, there is ongoing accusations of Russian bot activity that Shirleen Mitchell never proved, yet it remains the engine of #ADOS accusations 2 1/2 years later. (2)
The anger from PAists comes from the #ADOS rejection that ADOS as a people are a "lost tribe" that require some exotic metaphysical healing balm from Pan-Africanism, when the only functional PAism applied today is in American universities' Black professors' wishcasting... (3)
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7 Sep 20
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.

(1/x)
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)
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)
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20 Aug 20
#ADOS Family,

When surveying the ADOS chapters, the political education, the growing number of video & audio podcasts...we are building a media presence & possessing an increasing ability to establish *our own narrative.*

WE are doing this, together.
Now let me extend that. I continue to have & engage in conversations, all around.

There was a Medium piece that I published two days ago as a counter to Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, but it's time to consider additional, deeper issues.

Let's explore. #ADOS (1/x)
I provided the community something to read & refute, a criticism of the charges that Ms. Aiwuyor has accused the ADOS movement of, & we know that they're all ridiculous.

We have to get beyond *that* however. (2/x)
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30 Jul 20
#ADOS random thought:

The fact Talib Kweli Greene & Jessica Aiwuyor were able to spread such misinformation about ADOS, *and so much of the blue check population quickly embraced & believed it,* says WAY more about them and the #DecadentVeil than it does about us. (1/)
I mean...

What in the Terry Crews does it take for middle-class to wealthy striver Blacks & ADOS on media platforms to embrace a belief that a group of poor & working-poor Black Americans are xenophobic white-supremacists? #ADOS #MakeItMakeSense (2/)
What does it mean, for the totality of the #ADOS who has not practically, but LITERALLY NO WEALTH that we are a group of undesirables that reaps EVERYTHING THAT WE DESERVE FROM WHITE SUPREMACY? (3/)
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14 Jan 20
Good late evening family. This is going to be another long one.

With this Tweet-thread, we're going to review and consider coalitions and alliances.

Let's have a discussion about when to do them, why to do them, and what to expect out of the transaction. #ADOS #ADOSAgile (1/)
An excellent prologue for a discussion on this critical issue is Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael) & political scientist Charles V. Hamilton's "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation."
Taking influence and cues from the Ture/Hamilton text, I will paraphrase the couple of pages for #ADOS interest: "We do not oppose the formation of political coalitions *per se,* ... But coalitions with whom? On what terms? And for what objectives?" #ADOSAgile (2/)
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6 Jan 20
Good early morning family.

With this Tweet-thread, I want to share something that my pastor @KWCosby calls "Points to Ponder," key things to remember as we engage people and personalities on this platform. #ADOS (1/)
Our effort for a righteous justice claim battles much resistance & many enemies. Some of it is out of ignorance & a lack of knowledge. Some of it might well be having an interest in keeping ADOS a bottom caste in this country. #ADOSPolitics (2/)
As we deal with content consumers who may have a stake in what we are arguing for, let's dispose ourselves of the goal of direct persuasion as our goal. We have to resist the impulse to change the beliefs of people with made-up minds. #ADOSPolitics (3/)
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