NEWSFLASH: The “ADOS” Movement is Not An Excuse for You to Be a FKN Idiot About Race and Culture

[Prodyson]

I’m reading your post for a second time and I have to say, as a descendent of a family of immigrants, what you’re describing is not the reality that I saw. I never even thought about separating myself from ADOS blacks until now. Up until now my family members and I always thought of ourselves as black first. Maybe Guyanese are different. But even my parents and and aunts and uncles never talked negative about American blacks. I didn’t even know that was a thing until I saw it on the coli.

 

[Deuterion]

I’m reading your post for a second time and I have to say, as a descendent of a family of immigrants, what you’re describing is not the reality that I saw. I never even thought about separating myself from ADOS blacks until now. Up until now amy family members and I always thought of ourselves as black first. Maybe Guyanese are different. But even my parents and and aunts and uncles never talked negative about American blacks. I didn’t even know that was a thing until I saw it on the coli.

Half of my family is from Trinidad and Tobago and they weren’t on any c00n stuff either but a lot are. I’ve seen first hand time and time again from other Trini’s, Liberians, Nigerians, and etc. But once again the ADOS movement has nothing to do with anyone but African Americans so who cares about those other groups. It’s about African-Americans shifting from a race first philosophy to a culture first one and I think it’s totally necessary and needed. If someone is offended by that mission statement then rhey are most likely anti African American.

 

[Prodyson]

Half of my family is from Trinidad and Tobago and they weren’t on any c00n stuff either but a lot are. I’ve seen first hand time and time again from other Trini’s, Liberians, Nigerians, and etc. But once again the ADOS movement has nothing to do with anyone but African Americans so who cares about those other groups. It’s about African-Americans shifting from a race first philosophy to a culture first one and I think it’s totally necessary and needed. If someone is offended by that mission statement then rhey are most likely anti African American.

Understood. But I think you may be misunderstanding my point. If ADOS as a group had the power and/or numbers to make this move I wouldn’t think twice about it. It makes perfect sense. Your ancestors were slaves in America and you deserve what’s due to you. I’m an outsider and if I want reparations then my family needs to go to Britain and make a case.

My point is about strategy and ability. Sometimes how you accomplish something is just as important as why you’re doing it. It’s amazing how easily we recognize that this is a racist country, yet almost every attempt to even the playing field is something with a big black label on it. THAT DONT MAKE NO SENSE. Even white people didn’t make their discriminatory policies overt and obvious post Jim Crow.

This is where I think Obama got it right. In this country you have to help black people while people in a way where people think you’re not doing anything for them just because it doesn’t say BLACK on it. You want reparations or the like. Create a policy that says nothing about black people, but once it’s enforced, black people will overwhelmingly (as much to where it’s not too obvious) be the benefactors. They didn’t the same thing with things like Redlining and Mortgages loans, except in a discriminatory manner.

We gotta outsmart these people, but instead we want to put on a damn show. We want everybody to know that it’s payback. F that! At least use some slight of hand like our racist president.

 

[InkosiYe]

I’m reading your post for a second time and I have to say, as a descendent of a family of immigrants, what you’re describing is not the reality that I saw. I never even thought about separating myself from ADOS blacks until now. Up until now amy family members and I always thought of ourselves as black first. Maybe Guyanese are different. But even my parents and and aunts and uncles never talked negative about American blacks. I didn’t even know that was a thing until I saw it on the coli.

I had a similar upbringing and I've made this point over and over and over over and over and over again in these type of threads and it falls on deaf ears


At the end of the day, somehow ADOS are always the only group whose about unity and turning the other cheek but all africans and caribbean people are out for self and don't respect ADOS and use ADOS as a stepping stone. Personally I'm tired of arguing it, especially considering the reality that I walk out into everyday off the internet, so I generally just avoid these threads now.

I'm pretty much just watching from afar at this point, but hopefully there's enough sensible people within this movement that have a more nuanced understanding of the "other" black folks that live in this country.

 

[ultraflexed]

Hurt feelings

Not even an ounce of it. Im from the NYC area, where african americans and black immigrants live together and look out for each other. All this AADOS shyt is not real life.

I'm good, stop projecting kid.

Ny doesnt rep the whole USA, the demographics there are totally different

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

The problem with your post is you’re assuming that all these immigrant groups have sided with Black ADOS to fight White supremacy and ADOS out of nowhere are splintering off. All you have to do is look at all these different immigrant groups and you will see that they will put their culture first. They’ll walk, talk, and act like Black ADOS but see themselves as something different. I have seen it time and time again and many have a “thewhite man is not so bad I don’t know why you nikkas is so angry” mentality. So don’t try to paint this like ADOS are splitting from some Black unity pact that currently exists. Black unity is an idea and an ideal that is very very very loosely followed by anyone other than ADOS in the USA. ADOS are basically dropping the delusion and doing what all the other groups are doing.

This has not been my experience with my fellow Jamaicans. Many Jamaicans and I sympathize with the African American experience because me and many of the Jamaicans I know grew up in the hood with other African Americans. I came here at an early age but my half brother was born here (he has an African American father).

Whether or not I side with ADOS, I will be viewed and treated the same way by CAC america so I don't understand why any Africans, Haitians, or Jamaicans would come here on that c00nery bullshyt. However, I have seen that kind of thinking from "some" black immigrants I have encountered so I can understand where the vitriol for black immigrants is coming from. This has been the exception and not the rule from my experience.

That plays right in CACs tactics because they will make it seem like hatred and tribalism fuels ADOS in an effort to invalidate your movement (things like "these blacks are infighting their movement is obviously built on tribalism and hatred.")

 

[frush11]

Lmfao. Black immigrant hold zero power in this country and are in such small populations in most cities that the avg aados doesnt even contact with them. Right now majority of the people calling themselves fighting back on either side are idiots pissed off about dumb ass tweets from people who dont matter in the real world.

These dudes is just flat out making up shiit now.

There's always been petty issues between Blacks of different backgrounds in this country.

But my Lord you would think Africans and Caribs are walking around with Klan robes screaming fukk Black Americans

 

[Apollo Creed]

These dudes is just flat out making up shiit now.

There's always been petty issues between Blacks of different backgrounds in this country.

But my Lord you would think Africans and Caribs are walking around with Klan robes screaming fukk Black Americans

Funny thing is they always deflect when you call em out with the BS where they group all immigrants together because of some dumb ass tweet some random idiot said on some “SO YOU SAYING WE DONT DESERVE REPARATIONS SO YOU SAYING WE CANT BE OUR OWN GROUP SO YOU SAYING YOU DONT RESPECT US”



Like wtf are you talking about. At this point no point in engaging idiots.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

foreign brehs hurt and resorting to upping old threads to cry some more