ADOS: Anti-Reparation Talking Points & Moving The Goal Post

[Secure Da Bag]

But, Mr. Poitier is from the Bahamas though.

Sidney Poitier was the youngest of seven surviving children,[9] born to Evelyn (née Outten) and Reginald James Poitier,[10] Bahamian farmers who owned a farm on Cat Island. The family would travel to Miami to sell tomatoes and other produce. Reginald also worked as a cab driver in Nassau, Bahamas.[11] Poitier was born in Miami while his parents were visiting. His birth was two months premature and he was not expected to survive, but his parents remained in Miami for three months to nurse him to health.[12] Poitier grew up in the Bahamas, then a British Crown colony. Because of his birth in the United States, he automatically received American citizenship.[12]

In 1807, the British abolished the slave trade. Throughout the 19th century, close to 7000 Africans were resettled in the Bahamas after being freed from slave ships by the Royal Navy, which intercepted the trade, in the Bahamian islands. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire on 1 August 1834.​

My bad.

But let's assume for this discussion that he's AADOS.

LOL - if they identified as Black for the last 10 years -- as well as their parents, grandparents and so on -- back to their enslaved ancestors. And they are descendant of the enslaved in Colonial/Antebellum America.

So being 25% black and looking white would be still acceptable? Though I don't qualify, I still don't know how I feel about that.

 

[GMoney]

My bad.

But let's assume for this discussion that he's AADOS.



So being 25% black and looking white would be still acceptable? Though I don't qualify, I still don't know how I feel about that.

You can use Diana Ross' white grandkids as an example, and they would get reparations assuming they id' ed as black on legal/official documents.

Seeing as the threshold for blackness in the US has been historically lower than 1/4 at times, cutting ados reparations off at black identified quadroons seems reasonable.