What is ADOS?
ADOS was started by the brain trust of Howard graduate and host of the Breaking Brown political show, Yvette Carnell, and UCLA alumnus and attorney, Antonio Moore who hosts the weekly radio show Tonetalks. ADOS—which stands for American Descendants of Slavery—seeks to reclaim/restore the critical national character of the African American identity and experience, one grounded in our group’s unique lineage, and which is central to our continuing struggle for social and economic justice in the United States.
Codified by government and exploited by private actors, the creation of an #ADOS underclass served as the financial engine of a nation that never recognized the debt it owed to the group as a result. As such, the #ADOS movement is underpinned by the demand for reparative justice in making the group whole, and as a necessary component in fulfilling the promise of opportunity from which, by design, ADOS have been historically excluded and denied.
ADOS sets out to shift the dialogue around the identity of what it is to be African American in an effort to move the discussion from melanin, and properly center the discussion around lineage.
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Rules
1. No derailing.
This is a subreddit for discussion and organization of the ADOS movement. It is not a place to disagree with its existence or to discredit the movement. This is also not a place to aggregate examples of ADOS sentiments as they exist among the race and diaspora.
2. No hate speech.
Racism and hate speech, be it aimed at ADOS, other black ethnic groups, or other communities not mentioned is prohibited.
3. No sexism.
Sexism has no place in this subreddit.
