#ADOS
No one denies our African ancestry. But lineage is traced through familial ties. Those ties were irreparably broken and reformed in chattel slavery. The outcome, a new tribe emerged in the Diaspora
#ADOS
. And our tribe built the richest nation in the world. A debt is owed.
โJerry Jones was 14โฆโ
#FOH
Tamir Rice was 12. ๐๐พ
Emmett Till was 14. ๐๐พ
George Stinney Jr was 14. ๐๐พ
Trayvon Martin was 17. ๐๐พ
All of them were murdered.
None of them committed a crime.
None of them deserved what happened to them.
#2Americas
#Reparations
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Chinese culture is not Japanese culture.
Jamaican culture is not Haitian culture.
Black American๐บ๐ธculture is not โall global Black people cultureโ
We have unique identity.
We have unique history.
We are a unique people.
We have earned respect.
#BHM
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Meet the *NEW* Race/Ethnicity Questionnaire for CA state employees!
#Form1070
goes live on 1/1/24!
@CalHR_gov
officially disaggregated โBlack/AAโ & created a specific category for Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the US.
#SB189
Flat blackness is dead.๐ชฆ
#LineageMatters
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐ฅ
Dr. Claud Anderson's prescription for Black๐บ๐ธ:
Demand Black๐บ๐ธ protected class status
National Black๐บ๐ธpolitical party
Do NOT accept intangible, immeasurable & symbolic
Stay away from "social integration" & "civil rights"
Do NOT vote for ANYBODY who does not support Black๐บ๐ธ
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Thank you for the clarity โฆ
@CD6Nury
โฉ. We heard you loud and clear.
#bigot
There is no โBlack and brownโ coalition.
#LineageMatters
#NoFriends
#Freedmen
must be unapologetically self-interested and selfish with our political capital.
#2024
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
"We are not recommending to give money to African-Americans, we are recommending to return money to African-Americans," Lewis said. ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
A Debt Is Owed.
#Reparations
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Reckoning with reparations: What some Black Californians want
@thecjpearson
Someone explain the concepts of inheritance and generational wealth to this young man. He is sorely misinformed.
#Reparations
is a debt owed by the US government to American
#Freedmen
. Couldnโt care less about how it makes you feel. Youโre also free to waive your benefits.
#ADOS
Rest of story... the recording ends when security grabbed my phone and escorted me out. H/e before leaving I made sure Gina and her co-workers/producers/supporters in the room knew
#ADOS
will boycott her,
@CBS
and their advertisers until they
#CancelBobHeartsAbishola
.
#B1
โ๐พ
This is a historic WIN for our collective.
#Freedmen
๐บ๐ธ
We are 1 step closer to repair.
#Reparations
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐ฅ
Gov. Newsom Signs Law For Black Americans To Be Identified As A Separate Group To Help Support Lineage-Based Reparations Claims
We built ๐บ๐ธ
We made ๐บ๐ธ wealthy
We freed and protected ๐บ๐ธ
We kept ๐บ๐ธ whole
We ARE ๐บ๐ธ.
Happy
#DecorationDay
! โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐บ๐ธ
My father-in-law passed away last night.
#RIPower
๐๐พ๐๏ธ
He was a proud
#Freedmen
man and worked hard his entire adult life to provide better lives for his family.
He died wealthless w/o repair.
We must break this cycle.
Our collective survival depends on it.
#Reparations
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
@RealDLHughley
You should be mad that neither candidate is offering Black Americans
#ADOS
specific, reparative policy in exchange for our votes after 250 yrs of slavery and 150+ yrs of ongoing, institutional Jim Crow segregation, terrorism and oppression.
But, keep fighting for portraits...๐
"California reparations advocates recently achieved another goal when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that directs state agencies to disaggregate or separate data collection categories for Black and African American subgroups."โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐บ๐ธ
Ya'll mad b/c
@icecube
met and made demands of Trump administration on behalf of his people, but are willing to wholly ignore the *three decades*
#JimCrowJoe
Biden spent collaborating with Confederates in Congress to mass incarcerate and oppress Black
#ados
people.๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ
#DownBallot
In < 60 days,
#California
becomes 1st state in the nation's history to disaggregate "Black/AA" demographic category in state data collection AND create a new category exclusively for AA Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the US! This took YEARS of work! Well done family!!๐๐พ๐โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants, WE BUILT AMERICA ๐บ๐ธ
"I was a special agent for homeland security for awhile, I resigned and now I'm doing a podcast." ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
#ADOS
Somebody tell Roland it's 2019 & no one < 40 reads a newspaper.
Other things that are DEAD:
- Cassette tapes
- Blockbuster Video
- Old Boulรฉ Black Media
- Identity/Coalition politics
- Benign neglect
- Getting
#BlackVote
w/ no
#BlackAgenda
and finally...
- Your career.โ๐พ
You notice all of these super Black folks who are wannabe journalists/media personalities have never stepped foot in a Black newspaper? Do they cover Black news? Hell no. They just smack their gums discussing other people. Take a seat, Yvette.
When ppl say โReparations is more than a checkโฆโ
tell them๐๐พ
โYES!
#Reparations
is actually MANY checks, for MANY yearsโ
Wealth was stolen and wealth must be returned, with interest.
#CAReparations2024
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Kwame Brown calling out Jemele Hill and Stephen A Smith for their constant coonery to keep their massas happy is the best thing about this whole situation.
Beginning January 2024, the State of CA will disaggregate โBlack/AAโ in data collection and begin collecting data specifically for AA Descendants of Person Enslaved in the US across ~2.5M state employees
#SB189
#Implementation
#DataDisaggregation
#LineageMatters
#Freedmen
๐บ๐ธโ๐พ๐ช๐พ
If I kidnapped a dog, chained, violently beat him and made sure he had nothing but scraps for food, poisoned his water, made him live in feces/waste and terrorized him at every opportunity, for years...
would it be the dog's fault if he develops a "pre existing condition?" ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ
๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ
Hampton University to Offer Free Room, Board and Tuition to Ukrainian and International Students Studying in Ukraine Displaced by Ongoing Conflict : Hampton University News:
@jemelehill
There is different political energy between paid
@DNC
gatekeepers and grassroots Black
#ados
people. Gender is not a factor.
Black
#ados
men and women are united in call for
#Reparations
Attempts to divide us in this manner are at the bidding of ws.
#WeSeeYou
๐
#DownBallot
#ThanksObama
for stripping the veil off identity politics.
#ThanksObama
for teaching us that change for Black America requires policy, not "Black face in high place."
#ThanksObama
for destroying Black wealth & blatantly insulting us. We will never make the same mistake again.
I don't need your tears.
I don't need your hugs.
I don't need your marching.
I don't need your chanting.
I don't need your kneeling.
What I do need is your unequivocal support of
#ReparationsNOW
.
Demand America pay its debt to Black Americans
#ADOS
.
#BlackLivesMatter
โIn general, debtors are not in a position to inquire about how those to whom they owe money will spend it." ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
Dr. Darity Weighs In On The Stereotype Of Black Americans Wasteful Spending With Reparations: Magnifying Ls, Undercounting Ws
We survived Slavery.
We survived torture.
We survived rape.
We survived the whip.
We survived the noose.
We survived the police.
We survived your prison.
We survived your politics.
We survived your neglect.
#ADOS
are the greatest survivors the world has ever known
#B1
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
*Everyone* is attempting to divide Black American women and Black American men.
Why?...๐ค
Because united, we win.
#ADOS
๐บ๐ธโ๐พ
#ReparationsNOW
@TheBlackCaucus
Let's try this again without manipulation...
Which legislative priority of
@TheBlackCaucus
do you want to hear more about and remain the most important to you?
This that
#ADOS
๐บ๐ธ energy!!
Shout out to Gary Chambers for standing up and telling the truth about the brutality of Robert E. Lee and holding the Baton Rouge school board accountable. He said this with his chest! โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฏ
#ReparationsNOW
Baton Rouge school board member Connie Bernard gets blasted for shopping online while the board debated renaming a school bearing Robert E. Leeโs name.
Thanks to Gary Chambers for holding Connie accountable.
More evidence that HU + the institution's original mission have been compromised.
It is irresponsible + disingenuous to host a
#Reparations
panel + not invite
@BreakingBrown
(an alum)
@tonetalks
or Prof. Sandy Darity who are primarily responsible for revitalization of the topic.
At the HU Ideas Symposium, weโre making a case for reparations, discussing politics, race and more. Join moderator
@donnabrazile
, panelist Bishop Eugene Sutton, Professor Justin Hansford, and Phillip Agnew at 9:30 a.m. at the School of Business.
#HowardHomecoming
#HUHC19
The reactions to
#DeionSanders
are split along
#lineage
lines. Those of us connected to US institution of chattel slavery, who understand the historical importance of our HBCUs in our fight for liberation, are disgusted. Those w/o that connection are celebratory.
#LineageMatters
I grew up during the golden era of hip hop, so itโs hard for me to believe the level of revisionist history and disrespect being shown here.
There is no denying that hip hop is uniquely and definitively a creation of American
#Freedmen
ingenuity.
As my kids say, stopโ๐พthe ๐งข.
The more I hear, "it will never happen" or "you'll never get it" only makes me want to work harder.
Black๐บ๐ธbeen making the impossible possible for centuries. This is no different.
#Reparations
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
Please STOP๐ this offensive, false narrative that other groups were enslaved in America or also "built the country."
Paid, indentured servitude w/ full American citizenship outcome DOES NOT equate to THIS๐๐พ
#ADOS
built America + made it richest nation in world. A Debt Is Owed.
#ADOSConference
I achieved the impossible today and got
@tonetalks
to unblock me! ๐๐
Sitting among my brothers and sisters over drinks after an amazing day, I was overcome with joy and visions of a better future.
#WeHere
WE ARE GOING TO WIN FAM!โ๐พโฅ๏ธ
#Reparations2020
American
#Freedmen
have fought in every American war.
We built America.
We made America wealthy.
We kept America whole.
We protected America.
#LineageMatters
A Debt Is Owed.
#Reparations
Happy Veterans Day! ๐ซกโ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐บ๐ธ
I stand in unwavering support of
#CRTF
Chairwoman
@KamilahVMoore
. She's standing tall & leading the Task Force w/ dignity, integrity, and intellect toward *real* repair for CA
#Freedmen
community.
#salute
#respect
Those spreading lies about her are enemies to
#Reparations
.
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
@MrBigTent
@tariqnasheed
We are critiquing her racist, anti-Blk American comments๐๐พAND her "film" that ridicules
#Reparations
for
#ADOS
. She is either woefully ignorant or callously insensitive. Either is unacceptable.
We will no longer allow opportunists to denigrate our lineage for personal gain.
I was 17, ran out of gas, middle of the night, stranded in my 1st car. My mother dressed, drove to get me + put gas in my car. That's what family does, that's the power of lineage.
NOT ONE rescue ship has sailed from African continent in over 400 years๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ
#LineageMatters
#ADOS
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
๐ฃ๏ธBlack celebrities ARE NOT Black leaders
#ADOS
#KasiLemmonsMovie
Slave woman in antebellum South gets brutally raped and beaten to death by white slavemaster. She returns from dead to forgive and fall in love w/ the slavemaster ultimately using her undead powers to help him capture runaways. Working title is "Undying Love"
As someone who has worked on Opportunity Zone deals in the past:
*Developers are mostly white
*Politicians are mostly white
*Bankers are mostly white
*Lawyers are mostly white
*Investors are mostly white
*(Soon to be displaced) Residents are mostly Black
#ADOS
.
#OZcon
#Focus
โ๐พ
"California has become the first in the nation to require state agencies to include a separate category for descendants of enslaved people in its collection of employee data."โ๐พ๐ช๐พ๐บ๐ธ
California sets precedent by breaking down Black employee data by lineage
@EricHolder
๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธYou should delete this IMMEDIATELY.
#ADOS
are NOT immigrants. We BUILT America. When our Ancestors arrived on these shores, there was NOTHING here. Stop trying to make us into immigrants who came to America to eat the fruits of our stolen labor.
#LineageMatters
#TruthMatters
Dr. William Darity has dedicated more yrs to fight for
#Reparations
than many of us have been alive.
He & Kirsten Mullen produced possibly the most consequential literary work on
#Reparations
ever written
#FHTE
We don't always agree, but they always have my respect & gratitude.
Tired of ppl telling
#ADOS
it's "too difficult/impossible" to trace lineage back to American chattel Slavery.
FYI, many of us are 4 generations or less removed from plantations.
We don't need genetic tests. We know who we are.
#AmericanDOS
๐บ๐ธ
#LineageMatters
#ReparationsNOW
It is fully the Bruce familyโs prerogative to sell this land. Their
#Reparations
, their choice.
However, I look forward to the day when we collectively possess the capital to buttress, acquire and retain assets in
#Freedmen
families/communities.โ๐พ๐ช๐พ
If I got a job bagging groceries, show up to work and refuse to bag groceries, I lose that job.
Members of
@TheBlackCaucus
were hired to advocate specifically for
#ADOS
interests. They refuse to do so. Time for them to lose their jobs.
#NoBlackAgendaNoVote
#ShowUpVoteDown
๐ณ๏ธ
โIโm the first to say that White America can celebrate Juneteenth, I just donโt think White America should be the face of Juneteenthโฆโ ๐ฏ๐ฏ
#Juneteenth
#OurHistory
#OurAncestry
โ๐พ๐ช๐พ