Dope comment from
@GMoney about why ADOS is necessary. Can't quote so I will copy.
I don't like these African shows or her tone but it's a mind fukk when you realize the class consciousness of many Africans. You don't realize how many of these folks that can come here got servants and shyt or how fukked up tribe and class is in Africa. Many of them don't have the mindset for any type of racial or political alliance that would combat white supremacy. They are looking out for their own.
This Fredrick Douglass quote was eye opening: "it was an argument against repatriation schemes for the freed slaves. “The savage chiefs of the western coasts of Africa, who for ages have been accustomed to selling their captives into bondage and pocketing the ready cash for them, will not more readily accept our moral and economical ideas than the slave traders of Maryland and Virginia,” “We are, therefore, less inclined to go to Africa to work against the slave trade than to stay here to work against it.”
It's not Africans fault, but since the late 60's, many of our pro-black conscious movements had a naive, rose-colored glasses view of Africa. It was part of our consciousness-raising because we were disconnected. The reality is that many of our folks didn't really know much about Africa. For the few that actually went to Africa, they were largely shepherded by Dr.Ben type guides or intermediaries that showed them a small glimpse of what life was like. Whether Yvette is anti-African or not, she's right that Pan Africanism is dead as a viable political movement. There's really no shared political fate with the upwardly mobile Africans that come over here. Their mindset is different, even though like many "people of color" they share cultural and common experiences with us. Cultural and commonality really isn't enough.
But there really is no black politics anymore either. It used to be that black/negro..etc and AADOS were synonymous, we were really the only black people in this country and our politics and struggle were centered in the discourse and on the news. Now we are just part of a coalition, a 3rd minority group. Dr Claud Anderson called it years ago and it's come to pass, we're about done. There's no point in arguing with these new immigrants who don't understand this, who don't understand what black life used to be like after the civil right wins; all of our gains and struggle seem to be evaporating or being used by others when they were intended for us.
Tariq took a necessary movement and turned it into a right wing shilling operation.
Yeah he did dummy and how easy was that?
How easy was it to take a political movement that was built entirely on nationalism and some new age "awoken" hatred for Africans and immigrantion in America, and co opt it into something strongly right wing?
Did you really expect an ignorant set of people indulging in a bunch of anti-immigrant bigotry to also be open minded, pro-diversity, pro-equal rights, pro-immigration rights liberals? Some of yall niccas want to compromise civil rights laws to be exclusive to certain people. Something not even a deep south cracker Republican would dare to suggest.
And let's not even pretend like Yvette Carnell wasn't up in PFIR working John fukkin Tanton. It was right wing, pro-Trump, don't vote astroturf intended to disengage and mislead the black community to begin with. And foolish people like you who can be easily swayed by self-important bigotry ate it up and thought you were intellects doing it.
Look, it ain't complicated. You wanna take pride in your American heritage? Cool. Pride in your family? Cool. Celebrate your history in this country? Awesome. Perhaps even fight for a specific census classification? Don't see no harm in that. Pursue reparations for those who qualify? Get that money.
You wanna incite a bunch of resentment towards Africans? Immigrants? Liberalism? You wanna push a bunch of childish propaganda about how politically, culturally and intellectually superior African Americans are to other black people? You want to inhumanely denigrate black people who have been born into the horror of third world poverty because youre a black man born in a predominantlycac first world country, and that makes you more imporant? Now you can take your "movement" and fukk right off. It says a lot that some people are so weak minded they can be so easily manipulated if you make them feel special. No critical thinking skills.
You one confused dude. You want to belong to both a liberal movement and a hate movement at the same time somehow. A movement that will still vote for the liberal party and candidate but is resentful diversity at the same time. You are lost my man. All that bullshyt about "tethers" and a full blown tether about to be your President. Give it up. You and no one in yalls hashtags is important.
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