On this day in 1897, a mob of 400 white men lynched a Black man named Tom Waller in Lawrence County, Mississippi. They had a large picnic while preparing to hang him.
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When people accuse #ADOS of “playing the victim”, they don’t understand that real victims are made, not played.
We are real victims, whereas victims of “reverse discrimination” are *playing* the victim. Theirs is a game of pretend & make-believe. Ours is a harsh reality of usury & dehumanization.
And for legitimate victims of racist systems, people & institutions, there is a necessary distinction between our internal lives & our external lives.
Yes, America owes us reparations, & must pay us in the same way it has already paid other groups. But in no way does that imply that we don’t put forth 110% effort to make it through this life & take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way.
The idea that we’re all just lying around waiting for a fat check is right up there with the racist Welfare Queen trope.
What we’re doing is managing our internalities & externalities as best we can. We go to work & compete & love our families etc. But the plunder looms, & the fight continues.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FAM!
From training people to testify before OMB for the #ADOS designation to rolling out local chapters, #ADOSAF had a busy year of achievements.
Once again we were featured in NYT, FOX etc
Maybe 2024 will be our pod year 🤔. Salute🫡@QueenzFlip
Here’s Boyce Watkins elevating NAARC’s Ron Daniels three years ago.
Keep count of how many people—from NAASD to Boyce—centered Daniels.
They’re all to blame for how NAARC is bastardizing reparations right now. And they all acted out of spite.
So if you never go to college, Malveaux & Daniels will still give your cash payments to HBCUs— and whatever else they view as community repair—then call it day.
How does that repair your life? Your bank account? Your ability to pass down wealth to your kids?
NAARC is not in favor of real reparations
Both Malveaux—an MIT graduate—and Ron Daniels are Boule in their 60’s or 70’s
They’re at retirement age & standing in the way of younger #ADOS getting the wealth we need to have a truly American 🇺🇸 life. It’s despicable.
Flat Blackness as a unifier is a figment of many of their imaginations. Far too many don’t have the social tool box for this discussion. Just living in erasure of the cost of being #ados masked in flat Blackness as a source of power. Rather than honestly seeing it as a tool to escape the reality of lineage and its cost in #ados families in the United States.
“It explains why most Africans experience being called “black” or “African” for the first time when they come to America. Neither “black” nor “African” are conscious identity markers for Africans in Africa. One is a Taita, Igbo, Shona, etc. So any jokes or reference to racism in the black-American sitcoms flew right over our heads.”
@EddieWinning@BreakingBrown 👀 This is about lineage. Not likes. Also what you’re talking about isn’t real. But you don’t have to take my word for it. You can read how Black is not Flat, nor global.
Putting this woman aside, there should be no such thing as a first time homebuyer in the #ADOS community
Were it not for systemic racism and white mob destruction, we’d be passing down homes.
Reparations is redress. It puts the puzzle pieces back together
Any political position that doesn’t zealously advocate on behalf of open orders is apparently synonymous with advocating against immigration.
That kind of mischaracterization is intentional. As is the ridiculous assertion that Asians have been carrying our water.
It’s fiction
The NAACP opposes reparations.
It’s time to move past this org. It no longer represents the interests of #ADOS & hasn’t for years.
The NAACP is an impediment to our progress. Replace NAACP w/ #ADOSAF
So help me understand: Canceling that $12k for whites is analogous to freeing the slaves?
These people are so disrespectful.
I’m opposed to stabilizing white America thru student debt cancellation