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ADOS Advocacy Foundation CEO / Featured: @nytimes @CNN @ABC @TheIntercept @Vox @PhillyInquirer @AP @NPR Fighting for you ✊🏾 https://t.co/UWH6KjjdZT
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Jun 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We #ADOS did not cause the harm Japanese Americans experienced during internment, but we also didn’t get to opt out of paying for it.

Why?

Because the harm was caused by a country—- America— not an individual.

Harms caused by a country must be paid by that country. That means ALL taxpayers carry the responsibility.

No group gets to absolve themselves. You cannot opt out of a country’s debts because you or your parents emigrated here.

Don’t like being responsible for America’s debts? Catch a flight back to your homeland. You have options.

Panama or Jamaica? Which one way ticket should we book for you?

And Native Americans have received a variety of reparations, so why is this argument never brought up when discussing them?

Lastly, the majority of Blacks in this country are #ADOS. It’s not hard to figure out who we are because pre 1965, the number of Black immigrants in America was to the right of the decimal point. Where’s the outrage? Image
Jun 3, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
We’re not pitied because of ‘identity’.

As a people, we’ve endured slavery, convict leasing, Jim Crow, white mob violence, plunder etc.

The most powerful country in the world has weaponized itself against its own #ADOS citizens.

There are real & lasting consequences. And you “keep groups down” by not making them whole.

America has paid reparations to many groups as recompense, the only notable exception being #ADOS.

Is that indicative of our freedom? Or oppression?
May 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Thing is, America is set up in such a way that an entire country & its law enforcement apparatus are weaponized against #ADOS.

The individual white doesn’t need to hop on a horse, put on a hood, and terrorize us through random lynchings.

The system is efficient. I rarely hear an #ADOS person say “OMG! White people are coming into our communities & beating on us!”

No, the complaint is that the system is set up for us to fail, & has been for generations.

White people can’t be this obtuse.
Mar 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is an unserious evasion, an empty platitude.

Y’all owe an explanation to the people who helped Gabe Piemonte at ur advisement: How did Piemonte raise more than the person who placed 2nd, while placing 11th?

Don’t use me 2 dodge accountability. Answer for it. The real answer is that there never was any plan.

One day they are starting a military academy, the next day a political campaign, & the next day they’re fighting ADOS at OMB.

Scattered & unserious, a bundle of energy like kids on a playground
Mar 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The candidate who placed 2nd in Chicago’s 5th Ward Alderman race—Tina Hone—raised $40k.

The “Freedmen” candidate raised $56k & placed 10th out of 11.

Tina Hone: $40, 091 (🥈)

Gabriel Piemonte: $56, 402 The candidate who placed 3rd in the race—Renita Ward—also raised far less than “Freedmen” candidate Gabriel Piemonte:

Renita Ward: $23,283 🥉

Gabriel Piemonte: $56,402 (10th out of 11)
Feb 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“Thind argued to the Supreme Court that he was Aryan, and thus White.”

Full stop.

And it must be nice to ascend to the second highest office in America at 100 years since this ruling

Slaves were freed in 1863, & American Descendants of Slavery still haven’t had a president twitter.com/i/web/status/1… And Thind thought of himself as white because of how he was treated

There is hardly any commonality with Negroes here, and I wish Black academics would stop this nonsense
Dec 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
From the Jewish community to Guam to the Japanese, reparations are paid for harm caused by a country.

It is the globally accepted method for redress.

Your political ignorance is a handicap in this discussion.

Go read 📚. Begin with “When Affirmative Action Was White” Arguing against redress is the most ignorant position any Negro could possibly take. This is how I know y’all don’t read.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
No idea why any of this is surprising.

Demographically, Colorado is not Jackson. Toughen up buttercup. Folk need to stop tweeting stuff they’re not going to stand by Image
Nov 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 13, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Nov 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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
Jul 16, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
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?
Apr 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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…
Mar 31, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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. google.com/amp/s/slate.co…
Feb 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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
Feb 5, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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
Feb 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Feb 3, 2021 • 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.
Sep 6, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Sep 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
Aug 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
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.