The reason everyone is pivoting to reparations advocacy is because 1/ they’re grifters but also 2/ they’ve spent decades being wrong about everything, w/ zero accountability.
It’s all the same. This space is saturated w/ incompetence & fraudsters. And there’s too little social judgement from the community.
These people didn’t grow or change their minds. It’s just a grift. It’s *ALL* a grift
If Tariq & Boyce had had their way, there wouldn’t be a reparations mov’t. They both tried to kill it in favor of empowerment porn projects.
1/ Since some ppl have been sowing seeds of division, let’s discuss this Jared Ball & Co interview of Dr @CornelWest, which begins with Mr Kamau saying they have “solid critiques” of #ADOS, but not surprisingly, not one ☝️ solid critique was leveled..
It gets worse…
2/ Dr Cornel West poetically expresses his position—he believes in specificity, but doesn’t think that specificity should preclude solidarity.
I don’t think I disagree, but even if I did, so what?
3/ Dr West even tries to express the importance of specificity w/ an example from his own career/life…. wherein Jared Ball gazes off into the distance & scratches uncomfortably…
If you’d have a problem w/ Mexicans or whites in Blackface acting in this segment, why would u accept the insult coming from a Nigerian & a Black Brit (Ugandan)?
Cosplaying ADOS so that u can insult ADOS is not OK. Neither r these ADOS sellouts
The real reason #ADOS are hesitant to take the vaccine is not only bc of medical apartheid in the past, but our current treatment by the medical establishment.
This is honestly one of the most exclusionary, inflammatory & racist comments I’ve heard thus far.
#ADOS are *ALWAYS* last hired, first fired. We’re economically GUTTED by every downturn, but apparently, the only take away from these crises is how hard Hispanics are hit.
Dr Darity was invited to speak at the hr 40 hearing last year, something Antonio & I didn’t know until we spoke to him en route to the Angela Project.
Neither @tonetalks nor I were invited. Darity should’ve gone. It was an opportunity to speak w/ & influence members of Congress
NAASD (The Assembly), ADOS LA, BTP, decided to push 4 Darity’s edits, instead of pivoting to build something new, even after @tonetalks & I criticized the bill & pivoted.
Y’all might actually get the politics u deserve. U already got the leadership u deserve.