ADOS Maryland

We’ve made valid points on disaggregation/Black immigrants. We cannot control grifters like Tariq Nasheed (FBA)—who attaches himself to whatever’s popular at any given moment. Pre ADOS, Nasheed was a popular Pan Africanist. Do you blame Pan Africanists for elevating him? Do you blame the Zimbabweans who showed up to support him & buy his mediocre documentaries when he visited their county? And the truth is that nobody elevates Tariq more than the Black immigrants who show up in spaces to debate him and the multitude of podcasts who’ve hosted him. Blame them. None of that is my responsibility.

Black immigrants are not a tiny portion of the Black population. It’s not .1%. It’s 11% and growing fast. And Bill Gates wouldn’t mask white poverty because in many government surveys, data collectors often use a technique called top-coding. So if someone makes $50 million, the public dataset might record their income simply as "$1,000,000+" or a set ceiling. And again, disaggregating is not just an ADOS thing. Asians did it successfully, as did Middle East North Africans (MENA).

I’m blown away at how late people are in understanding who Jay Z is, the role he plays & whose interests he represents. It’s maddening, honestly youtube.com/live/X-8lqOHsjB0…

Did you ever watch the women on Living Single make fun of each other??? Regine is normally dressed fashionable in a traditional sense, so of course they mocked her dashiki. They would’ve mocked her if she’d walked in wearing a kimono too. We are #ADOS. We roast each other over everything. That ugly tie dyed dashiki got what it deserved. And “division” wasn’t pushed by the CIA or any else. The white media constantly fed us Pan Africanism. The Color Purple, Coming to America, Black Panther, Roots—where we were spoon fed the lie that Europeans captured African slaves with nets. Kwanzaa was started by an actual Fed. All of that was used to neuter our politics and replace political action with an imaginary African homeland. African identification was repeatedly celebrated and promoted in ADOS cultural life. We were hardly deprived of messages about diaspora unity. If you ask me, Pan Africanism is likely a CIA funded operation. It gutted our politics & left us psychologically confused.

Like I said earlier this week about FD Insignificant, many of the people determined to take down the ADOS movement just want us out of the way so they can steal our talking points in peace. We’ve seen this play out how many times thus far? Predictable.