“At this point, to put it bluntly, ADOS is weaponized,” said Gregory Carr, co-chairman of Afro-American studies at Howard University, who has been active in the fight for reparations since the 1980s. “It is so indefensibly xenophobic and nativist at this point.”
Carr said Moore’s discussion of black genealogy echoes some of “the ugliest elements of white identity.”
Talib Kweli Greene, a 43-year-old New York-based rapper and artist who supports reparations, has tangled with ADOS supporters online.
“I just think that she’s misinformed,” Greene said of Carnell. “She is letting her bigotry lead her into a place where she’s not even concerned that the rhetoric she’s spewing, right-wing bigots and racists and Trump supporters are aligning with.”