Essential The Official ADOS Discussion Thread

[Voice of Reason]

Let's keep it buck. She ain't wrong. We've been saying the same thing. There's not enough economic power. There's not enough employment among Aframs. The Afram vote is not enough and politicians continue to play the community. PASB is too myopic in his approach.

Now the "all you do is lay down and vote" that was ignorance.

ADOS men, specifically baby boomers are the most success black people in Atlanta,Detroit,DC etc.

 

[saturn7]

No doubt. That's not up for discussion. But the issue is: you've made the table and they been saying you can't sit at it. And yet still asking you to work them and build more tables for them.

I don't think we are demanding the right to make more things for "them", but in this society people need jobs and income, at the minimum. Also we have a right to be fed up when we see the government and private industry providing aid to certain groups while telling ADOS folks there is nothing for us or we have to split resources with groups who don't share the debt owed to us.

Every group lobbies for it's needs, from the richest and smartest "model minorities", to Corporations and Banks begging Congress for bail outs. Not fair to try to shame ADOS folks for demanding our cut. I agree we need more leverage than just relying on voting.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I don't think we are demanding the right to make more things for "them", but in this society people need jobs and income, at the minimum.

That wasn't what I was saying. I'm saying America has made Aframs a laborer class for centuries. And try very, very hard to keep Aframs away from being economically viable or even part of the entrepreneurial class. America continues to deny Aframs true economic self-sufficiency while promoting that labor is the way to stay.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Pan Africanist have been going at immigrants recently

 

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Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University economics professor, has been nominated by President Biden for governor of the Federal Reserve. On Feb. 3, she will appear before the Senate Banking Committee.

She is sure to face a grilling about her support for financial reparations for Black Americans as a form of repair for slavery and discrimination. Cook will appear with fellow nominees Sarah Bloom Raskin and Philip Jefferson.

If confirmed, Cook would be the first Black woman to serve on the Fed board in its 108 years, CNBC reported.

“Everybody benefited from slavery. Everybody,” Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University professor, said in a September 2020 “EconTalk” podcast. “So, I think that we absolutely need some sort of reckoning with that. There are many proposals on the table to study the possibility of reparations, many economic proposals being put forward, and I think they should all be taken seriously.”

She has also expressed support for H.R. 40, a House bill that would create a commission to study reparations, Fox News reported.

“One thing I do support is H.R. 40, which would put in place a commission to study this. I think that’s absolutely what needs to be done,” Cook said at a forum at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.

“It’s difficult not to comment on a particular plan because there could be many different plans to achieve the kinds of reparations that [two authors] are suggesting.”

The Fed governor nominee also serves on the advisory board of the Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Fed.

Biden praised Cook as a “talented economist with decades of experience working on a broad range of economic issues.”

He added that Cook and other recent Fed nominees “will bring much-needed expertise, judgment, and leadership to the Federal Reserve while at the same time bringing a diversity of thought and perspective never seen before on the Board of Governors.”

Read full story on Finurah here.

 

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[saturn7]

Interesting chat about the Reparations criteria the California Reparation Commission has been discussing.

 

[T'krm]

Interesting chat about the Reparations criteria the California Reparation Commission has been discussing.

At what point was Ados excluded? Know that T.N recently was featured.

 

[saturn7]

At what point was Ados excluded? Know that T.N recently was featured.

I missed the last few meetings but it seems some NAARC and NCBRA members had some problems with the Darity criteria most of us agree with. They are trying to expand the eligibility to all "Blacks"/ people of African descent, not just those whose ancestors were enslaved in the U.S.

 

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@saturn7 your right they are

 

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