Thread by @NonHumanMedia1

A lengthy thread🧵 of #ADOS speakers calling into the OMB Townhall on Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards

President and Co-Founder of ADOSAF Yvette Carnell

ADOS Co-Founder Antonio Moore:

“There has been an erasure of an entire population by the fact that we have not created the category American Descendants of Slavery”
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ADOSAF Compliance Director Simeon Harris:

“Our lineage has been the basis of our exclusion; an exclusion that continues today”
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Elizabeth:
“Disaggregating our data is important because we need to know where we stand. We need to know what our financials look like. We need to know what our lives look like as those descendants, as the people who built the country”
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Dr. Speller
“There is much data that would suggest substantive statistical differences that are otherwise shrouded by the persistent use of racial category”
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Allen:
“Liberian Americans, Haitian Americans, they all have different wealth outcomes, income levels, homeownership rates...In Boston we have $8 dollars, Caribbean immigrants have $18,000”
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Georgette:
“We can't fix what we can't measure”
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Brandon:
“I claim the name American Descendants of Slavery because the government has communicated to my group this way through benign negligence and this designation gives us the opportunity to communicate back through a demand for policy prescription”
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Dr. Gibson:
“The government must disaggregate to discern the effects of past targeted and exclusionary policy directed towards those who descended from the institution of slavery”
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Bernard:
“I hope the OMB uses this opportunity to assist the least of us in getting what we deserve and need from enhanced public policy derived from more accurate and precise data that is better able to capture our condition”
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Israel:
“The effects of these distinctive events can only be rectified when those who endured the suffering can be accurately identified”
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