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3 Feb, 6 tweets, 2 min read
America is a country built by people who were chained & dragged here in the belly of slave ships.

The End.
Stop putting voluntary emigration to America on the same level w/ Slaveocracy.

Immigrants are only here because Slaves built America. They’re only here bc of the Freedom struggle of American Descendants of Slavery.

We. Are. Not. The. Same.
I respect Native Americans, but we’re not the same either.

Slaves built America, whereas Native Americans fought America, then separated.

I respect that. But it means that the contributions of #ADOS & Native Americans are not equal.
And stop letting people convince u that how America discusses ethnicity, race, & immigration doesn’t impact reparations.

As long as White America views all “Brown & Black” people as an identical “POC” group, we’re never going to get them to understand the specificity of #ADOS
Lots of groups live in America. Only one group *BUILT* America 🇺🇸

#ADOS #ADOSRising
While we’re at it, give us the Statue of Liberty 🗽 back too. It’s intended to be a celebration of our struggle for freedom in this country.

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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
5 Feb
If you include Black immigrants in reparations for #ADOS, then it’s no longer reparations for ADOS.

This is not a “trial balloon”, sir. This is selling out our justice claim. See it for what it is.

If Darity gets on the reparations commission, he’s going to cave.
Darity bastardized his own work to include Black immigrants in reparations, and 4 what? 2 be liked? To be invited to the reparations commission?

And this ain’t over. Darity just signaled to u that he’s willing to sellout #ADOS.

This is why academics don’t lead movements
Listen, Black immigrants & non ADOS Blacks are already included in our Black agenda, but not our justice claim.

Our justice claim is *SACRED* & Darity is already negotiating it away, as if it’s some kind of political football.

This is shameful.
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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
5 Feb
I deleted the previous tweet re this podcast after I listened myself. Here’s my take:

1/ Darrick Hamilton is the one who suggested adding Black immigrants to reparations. If you add Black immigrants, it’s not reparations for #ADOS. Call it something else pca.st/episode/1788d5…
The hosts say helping Black immigrants helps close the racial wealth gap, which is true... I guess .

That’s why @tonetalks coined the phrase lineage wealth gap. Language matters.

Our Black agenda includes non- ADOS Blacks, but they are not a part of our justice claim
When asked, Dr Darity says he defines himself as Black, but then goes on to say that reparations goes to Native Black Americans.

Why define urself as something other than the member group that’s entitled to reparations? Consistency in thinking, speaking, & advocating matters.
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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
6 Sep 20
Folks stay getting it right & walking it back. #ADOS built the richest country in the world & are still experiencing multigenerational oppression in the belly of the beast @WendellPierce.

That’s more than just a different “manifestation”. We’re unlike any other group.
It’s insane how @WendellPierce created a thread to explain how #ADOS is different from this Moroccan/ white actor who grew up in the suburbs of London, then ended by saying we all the same. Wtf?! No we aren’t.
There is a SPECIFICITY here, and no one should be shamed into ignoring who we are as #ADOS, what we have experienced *in* America & contributed *to* America. No other group can claim that. Not one.

Stop shaming ur ancestors by cowering to this idea of sameness.
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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
2 Sep 20
This drummer didn’t set any beat. , but:

“he and a group of students boarded a racially segregated bus in Atlanta wearing traditional African clothes and were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted because they were not identified as African Americans, who had to sit at the back.”
This shows how non #ADOS Blacks were/are able to come here & get ahead. They were never considered the same as #ADOS. It’s not because they work harder, but because white people treat them differently
So everyone needs to stop saying that white folk & white institutions treat all Blacks the same. It’s a lie.
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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
5 Aug 20
1/ Checked my Twitter DM’s & I don’t have a message from @offbeatorbit, the writer of this piece.

So u reached out to *HARASSER* Talib Kweli & not the *VICTIM* (me)!?

I’m owed an apology @jawnita @fittsofalexis @jezebel. jezebel.com/talib-kwelis-h…
2/ Then @offbeatorbit u write about how unprotected Black women are, but not once did you also mention women like @ImaniKushan & @ynb who were COMPLICIT in my harassment.
3/ The list goes on. @samaralynn & @abc owe me an apology as well bc both @tonetalks & I told u that Talib Kweli was obsessively harassing me online & shouldn’t be included in any ADOS article, & yet u included him anyway. All of u aided this abuser.
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BreakingBrown (Yvette Carnell)🇺🇸 Profile picture
1 Jul 20
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay, which I applauded, got a lot of fanfare, but it didn’t move the needle. Know why? There wasn’t a grassroots movement to rally around it. That’s #ADOS. We put reparations in the Democratic primary & we created this moment.

NCOBRA hasn’t done a thing.
By NHJ not acknowledging what we’ve done, while she was still trying to figure out why Kamala wasn’t identical to #ADOS, she’s basically stealing.

Just tell the truth about it. There’s an actual timeline here that is contrary to everything she’s saying.
And centering BLM in her article, when they don’t even agree with her criteria for reparations, and haven’t done any reparations work, was just goofy & lazy.
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