Where Do the Politics of Reparations Go From Here?

1. Thank you for wasting your time on a divisive issue that provides bigots with a tool to increase support for their movement.

   Anyone who doesn't see that this is simply a tool being used by some DNC politicians to make sure that the African-American community will vote for them are ignorant. Anyone who doesn't see that if this comes anywhere close to being passed that it will result in massive marches of people against the African-American community are ignorant. You should be focused on issues like worker's/union rights, improving education/affordable higher education, improving infrastructure, more affordable healthcare, etc. etc. etc.

   Check out the African-American activist Adolph Reed, he makes clear that this is usually just a few people looking to get attention and not actually addressing the issues that will help improve the lives of all in difficulty, especially African-Americans.

2. #ADOS is in the building. Don't ever disrespect it again.

3. Any one that is on board with hr40 is full shit

4. I don't think our people understand that reparations is about lineage, you will have white people who are ados, immigrants who are Ados, this issue is not as simple as black or white. If a black man who is ados, has children with a non ados woman, is that child ados? What about Liberians whose families were sent to that country in the 19th century, are they ados?

5. ADOS has every right to fight for OUR JUSTICE CLAIM AGAINST AMERICA, just like other DOS worldwide has every right to pursue their justice claim against their colonizers and we should be respectful for each other rights . What about this is so hard for black immigrants to understand? By conducting a unbalanced bias panel It's more then also clear the "The Real News Network" has a agenda to attack ADOS right to fight for our justice claim in the country OUR ANTORSECS BUILT. So I will unsubscribe and all ADOS should do the same.

6. If it wasn't for #ados their would not have been a hearing on HR40. No one would be talking about reparations on a mainstream national level if it wasn't for ados. Instead of reaching out to ADOS reps such as Dr. Sandy Darity, Yvette Carnell, or Antoine Moore to have a conversation you just dismiss them. The question is why?

7. Shut up "entitled" black people." Mexicans don't get reparations you don't either. Work for your taco.

8. ADOS is we’re the politics of reparations should be at, I think anything else is confusing.

9. Pro slavery & Jim Crow laws can ONLY be blamed on judges who embraced the concept of white supremacy. Solution is to erect a HALL OF SHAME in each and every courthouse where pro slavery & Jim Crow laws were enforced, w/ portraits of each racist judge displayed for all to see, starting w/ Roger Taney, Chief Justice SCOTUS "Africans are only 3/5 human" and thus cannot own land (Dred Scott case).

10. ADOS are not dismissing our African roots. Reparations are for American Descendants of Slaves, not black immigrants. If Africans in the Diaspora have a justice claim in their country, then let them stake it.

11. Question: Jacqueline, have you listened to or done any in depth review of ADOS and what they're saying? You're a brilliant woman, but I respectfully say, it doesn't sound like it, and if you haven't, you're not really qualified to speak on the subject. Your question was muddled and unclear. ADOS is making the factual case that post baby boomer African American descendants of AMERICAN SLAVERY are facing genocidal level extinction based on every socio-economic metric, meaning this population does not have the capacity to sustain life going forward. Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore have articulated this case brilliantly, employing contemporary technology and social media to break down this explosive deep academic data that most people know nothing about. Those of us elders who get it, our own Afrocentric and pan Africanists history notwithstading, absolutely agree with the case being made to America— you broke these people, you repair these people. Period. And absolutely, don't confuse bringing in a bunch of high achieving Africans or Haitians or anybody else from any place else to fill spots in schools and jobs that Black Americans should be occupying — and I'm married to an African so don't get it twisted— just because it's more convenient. Even colleges and universities have begun to question using blacks from everywhere else as cutouts and stand-in for African Americans--why is that? Is it because it's easier to use people who haven't been so thoroughly and relentlessly assaulted. Is that any different than rolling out a "diversity" model after the civil right struggle that primarily benefited white women. Get your payback from the criminals who assaulted you. Follow that model and everybody take up your own struggle against whoever perpetrated the crimes against your population. That's only logical. Template models can be used to pursue your particular group of perpetrators. But when ADOS shows you the data and the little bit of wealth in black hands in this country resides in boomers and African immigrants– this isn't an anti-African story. This is a how the fuck did that happen story? It doesn't make sense, so figure it out. Maximum respect to my generation of fierce advocates, including Nkobra, Cam Howard, Omali Yeshitela et al. There is no contradiction in my mind. I do see some ego on one side and lack of proper sensitivity on the other, but these are minor issues. The real point is, are we just going to watch this population disappear and the general society will say, they was here and now they're gone. We don't know what happened. Oh well. And the global take away — because that IS a pan African reality — the battle must be fought in every jurisdiction against every responsible criminal — not in some kind of blurred lines confusion that could very well see the sons and daughters of Africa's legendary criminal kleptocrats like Mobotu or Kagame etc. rewarded even more just because they fit some kind of superficial profile.

12. No, the root cause is not "white supremacy."
    For white, brown and black fast thinkers are slave owners,
    while white, brown and black slow thinkers are slaves

13. As an Indigenous person, I know that our traditional societies influenced the American realizations of Indigenous freedoms. Although we are unacknowledged for this historical contribution, you are correct Marc, IMO. Sadly, in fact, we were were dispossessed of this as well. I think an America transitioning toward social democracy is moving toward social justice but that is hypothetical at this point. A world war would halt that 'nonsense'. The root of the problem IS American (big CC) corporate capitalism. I think real solutions will come from real community-based initiatives, politics and transformation. Paying people off is 'Big C' capitalism and the tactic of choice of money masters to maintain things as they are while concealing the underlying dynamics of power.

14. Being a person of Indigenous ancestry, I know urban ghettoization and dispossession well. Will I be at the back of the line once again?

15. I can’t believe they are having these hearings without Dr Claude Anderson

16. One important question of reparations came with the abolition of slavery; whether they should be paid to oil companies, or their holdings simply seized.

17. “Hashtag groups” guess she wants us to keep on waiting for Wakanda to save us.

18. #ADOS isn't a hashtag group. We are live and in people's faces. We have disconnected our legal claim from the pan africanism movement for multiple reasons. The most important reason is that a legal claim for reparations has to be very specific in who the plaintiff and defendants are. It can be proven America has terrorized black people in America. You can't definitively prove that for the global diaspora. Furthermore for there to be a true pan-african relationship, the 52 African countries have to agree that they want to be part of this….and so far they have said "nah"

19. African Americans had generations of freedom expropriated from them. Native Americans had all the property of North and South America expropriated from them. Slavery cost white Americans hundreds of thousands of young men's lives when the country fought its most awful war to end it.
    If we're taking responsibility for all the sins of everyone's ancestors, are we going to try to assess reparations from the South for the Civil War or from all the Dutch, British, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Jewish Old Money and all the other slave traders? Should we hold Britain's support for the Confederacy against them now? Does this all seem too focused on the past?
    There are proposals that aim to correct past mistakes like banking reform to promote smaller banks and promote more lending for production instead of only for real estate. That seems like a more productive and forward thinking way to begin to undo persistent economic harm from redlining.

20. the topic is 2 hot for them to not do anything they have to give us something the longer we wait the more the fire gets hot this could lead to a war that can get real ugly based on the facts that at this point in time we have nothing to loss.

21. Cut the check!

22. If the Black community goes it alone by only organizing against Black discrimination, they would be a 12% minority against 78% of society. But if they organize against Black and Latino discrimination, they would be a 32% against 68% of society. But better yet, if they organize against class discrimination, they would be the might 50% laboring-class working poor and would win a Revolution without a vote being cast or a shot being fired.

    For by a no-work strike, a nationwide laboring-class strike, just watch what happens when the sewage backs up to the kitchen sink of everyone with a college degree.

23. No one in this show is of the laboring-class, the 50% working poor. For they are all of the more educated upper-half of society that has always hoarded all of the land, wealth, political power and healthcare. And when they tell us to organize the 75% of society known as the "working-class," they create insanity by combining slave-drivers and slaves.

    For in this economical prison called Empire USA, the educated middle-class are the slave-drivers who police, supervise, engineer, doctor and small business manage the enslavement of the black, brown and white 50% working poor.

24. Damn shame the white man was more with us than this black woman.

25. The 25% most intelligent are the ruling-class, the 25% middle-speed thinkers are the supervisor middle-class and the 50% slow and careful thinkers who enjoy doing manual labor, they are the laboring-class. For the simple reason that God created them that way.

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