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.
Our political movement is anchored in lineage, defined by us as American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS).
But whether u define the lineage as American Black or Native Black American, u must define it so that we escape flat blackness. Disaggregation.
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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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.