Everyone needs to get clear on 1 thing: #ADOS isn’t the problem. We aren’t the problem. We’re not the cause of these disagreements.

Reparations SPECIFICALLY for #ADOS, as opposed to the road to nowhere “Black liberation” model, is the cause of the controversy & attacks. The End.
Everyone supports reparations so long as it’s just theoretical (Coates) or unserious (NCOBRA).

But when the grassroots make a specific demand? Backed by data? And push it relentlessly? Then all hell breaks loose.
If I come out tomorrow & say “you know what, reparations should be for all people of African descent”, the attacks would disappear like vapor.

Why? Bc that’s a nail in the coffin ⚰️ of any *real* 🇺🇸 reparations mov’t. It’s illogical nonsense at that point. And everyone knows it.
And in America, pushing dead ends is the only way to make bank 🏦 in the racial justice arena.

You don’t get the racial justice bag by *solving* the problems of #ADOS, you make money by explaining them .... & offering solutions that, at best, only slightly improve our lives.
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