Well let's look at the facts about Yvette Cornell here since there's never any talks about the actual agenda being pushed for whatever reason which can be found here:
Black Agenda » The ADOS Advocacy Foundation
and the discussion is always about her character. I think most people like the agenda, actually.
From what I see in your posts the earliest time referenced is 2012, before 2012 she served as staff assistant to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), legislative aide to Congressman Marion Berry (D-AR), and assistant to the Chair of the Women’s Vote Center at the DNC.
Critical facts about her political alignment and history that I can't find anywhere in any of the articles you linked or any of your posts ever.
According to you she was pushing Ron Paul and then "called herself a Bernie Sanders supporter" in 2016. I look at the conference ADOS is hosting in 2024 and what do I see
Welcome to the National Reparations Summit registration webpage! Secure your spot at our upcoming event by purchasing your registration today.
www.adosfoundation.org
Nina Turner as one of the key note speakers, so that checks out (also source of her above prior capitol hill work since that never gets mentioned for some reason).
A random mention of Ta Nehisi Coates but without providing quotes and references to what she said about him "critiquing" becomes "publicly attacking"
"Why the need to constantly attack other reparations advocates"
In one of the
hitpieces articles you linked it's mentioned here:
"ADOS founders and followers like to say they’re only on the scene because NCOBRA and all the reparationists before them failed to get the job done. This is the only place where ADOS gets it not half, but maybe about a quarter right. NCOBRA didn’t get the job done, but reparationists of what we’ll call the NCOBRA generation – NCOBRA was founded in 1989 – they only stepped to the fore because the black politics of two previous decades since the ‘65 and ‘66 voting rights acts had also failed to achieve any practical improvements in the everyday lives of black people. Reparations was a kind of retreat from the futility of practical politics, without the need of setting actual goals against which to measure progress.
Reparationists of the 80s, the 90s and the new century many of whom identify as Pan Africanists of one stripe or another, seem to have made their peace with the fact that they could file lawsuits, hold meetings and seminars, and speak at the UN and international meetings, but they couldn’t get much of anything done that affected the lives of ordinary people. They retreated into what Adolph Reed calls a politics of symbolism and psychology. Since the 1980s these reparationists have tirelessly talked up the the undeniable moral justice of their claim, the support for it in human rights discourse and international law, the psychological imperatives of restorative justice, and the possibility of genetic damage due to the profound stress of oppression, all of which with the addition of two dollars and fifty cents will get you a subway ride in New York or Atlanta. But these reparationists fall mostly incoherent or silent when it comes to offering even the most vague sketch of how these moral claims might be translated into a viable political project"
Her history with being willing to work across political lines to get things done is probably why she joined PFIR. I could see why that's a deal breaker for some.
For everyone else there's 3 other key founding members that never get talked about because they aren't as easy targets for people with questionable intention to smear.
Antonio Moore, Dr. Kevin Crosby and Dr. Sandy Darity. From what I understand, Dr. Darity and the organization severed ties due to differences in opinion on whether or not black immigrants should be entitled to reparations (
Dr. Darity is pro black immigrants receiving reparations). There's also chapters which regularly have meetings where people who aren't internet characters talk.
The subject of those discussions are never black immigrants, and the only time I ever see black immigrants discussed is to point out that they aren't entitled reparations because they did not go through slavery and most of them just got here post 1965. Anything deeper than that is a narrative people fabricate based on cherry picking twitter trolls (a very very bush league tactic that you can do for any group), not based on going to chapter meetings or conferences and interacting with people in the real world.
Who cares who founded it?
