Why even do this? Especially when Smith is awful at accents?

I suspect it’s because too many #ADOS are uncomfortable seeing THEMSELVES as slaves. The accent creates emotional distance.

It also takes them away from America & anchors them in a place where they *FEEL* powerful.
A person with a Haitian accent as a slave = Revolution

An American Black as a slave = weak victim

We really need to work through our collective trauma & internalized inferiority. It’s manifesting in a variety of ways.
Until we heal, we will always prefer other stories to our own. We will always be complicit in our own rejection & erasure.

So prepare to see more Wakanda movies & #ADOS stories where we otherize ourselves 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nov 13
As a political scientist, I really don’t think people understand how hard Kemp fought *NOT* to have a redo of his last contest w/ Abrams

1/ Kemp increased his share of the vote in 152 of 159 counties
2/ Kemp took advantage of Abrams’ rising star/celebrity status among Dems, easily painting her as out of touch w/ the needs of regular Georgians.

Abrams campaigning to become Biden’s VP didn’t help either.
3/ Kemp built a grassroots machine that rivaled Democrats, & he did it quietly, w/ little fanfare.
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Nov 11
An unregulated environment is a dangerous environment, especially for wealthless people.

Encouraging crypto was reckless investment advice, but an excellent sales funnel for the Black Business School.

#ADOS
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. Image
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 Image
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Jul 16, 2021
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…
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Apr 4, 2021
SNL is calling #ADOS stupid.

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.

khn.org/morning-breako…
This segment was racist bc it suggested that the problem is stupid #ADOS rather than a racist America.

hbr.org/amp/2018/08/re…
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Mar 31, 2021
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.
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Feb 11, 2021
Understand one thing: #ADOS gave all of our energy to hr 40, long after we should’ve pivoted. Long after I pivoted.

Some of u r still tweeting about editing this bill, at Darity’s suggestion.

If this N’COBRA bill passes, that’s an enormous setback 4 us.
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.
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