Essential The Official ADOS Discussion Thread

[Secure Da Bag]

Oprah trying to get back on black folks good side. Tired of Charles Blow crying.






Ida Bae at the end (46 mins) mentioned Hamilton and Darity and Reparations.

I see. Nikole is the mainstream acceptable version of Antonio and Yvette. I see the game now.

 

[saturn7]

NAACP forum with Joe Biden.

Ed Gordon asked Biden about Reparations. He gives a slippery answer. Says he agrees with payments if it includes Native Americans.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

NAACP forum with Joe Biden.

Ed Gordon asked Biden about Reparations. He gives a slippery answer. Says he agrees with payments if it includes Native Americans.

time?

 

[saturn7]

O at it again.

 

[saturn7]

time?

Ed asks around 37 minutes in.

 

[The axe murderer]

Namibia snubs N$180m reparation offer - The Namibian

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Namibia snubs N$180m reparation offer - The Namibian

As they should. Anything less than a 1b Euro is insulting.

 

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[omnifax]

Just a random thought about the push to "defund/disband" police. The more I think about it the more I think it is a bait-and-switch for ADOS. I've listened to a lot of podcasts and read quite a few articles detailing how difficult it is to prosecute police officers involved in excessive force/abuse and killings. The layers of protection for police officers confirms that it is a daunting task but looking at Minneapolis I remembered just last year they convicted the Somali officer who killed the Australian woman and it didn't appear that difficult.

I'm thinking that this whole idea to disband the police and replace it with some other public safety organization is a way to avoid punishing officers (non-black ones specifically) shifting our attention away from getting justice for those who have been abused. One of the more vocal city council members in Minneapolis behind the disbanding idea even mentioned on the radio that it would take "years" to implement their plans. My understanding is they have a super majority in their favor so why couldn't they use that leverage to push for external investigations of the complaints against their officers. Derek Chauvin for example had over 17 complaints against him and was never punished in any of those instances. I'm sure they could root out more if they tried.

Overall I think this is an indirect reinforcement of the current caste system of ADOS where whites can abuse us and rarely if ever be punished for it.

 

[saturn7]

Newt Gingrich questions Reparations. Prof Darity Tone and others g check him. lol

 

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[Captain Crunch]

We Shall Be Counted: ADOS & the US Census a Live Town Hall

 

[EndDomination]

Why Reparations Should Be One Of Today’s Top Political Demands ❧ Current Affairs

Great article from Nathan J. Robinson - about reparations - good framing - and political expediency.

Let me be more clear about the real-world case: I do not think it is possible to have anything resembling a fair society without having reparations for slavery and Jim Crow. These are not historical bygones, they have produced a giant racial wealth disparity that is not going away. That wealth disparity was present the day slavery ended. It was present the day the Civil Rights Act was passed. And it is present today. It is not something that was created in the years since 1964 by Black “free choices”—it has been continuously present for hundreds of years. Without eliminating the wealth gap between Black and white—starting everybody off as “equal” as possible—we are letting our present social outcomes be dictated by the past. Even a racist like Lyndon Johnson was capable of understanding this simple point, famously saying:

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.

 

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