Black People Politics : Controversial group ADOS divides black Americans in fight for economic equality

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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At least we are talking about Reparations but they aren't disruptors... just confused.


Controversial group ADOS divides black Americans in fight for economic equality

Controversial group ADOS divides black Americans in fight for economic equality

Reparations and the lingering racial wealth gap have been conversations largely within the black American community. Both issues have received wider attention of late, particularly among the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates. All the Democratic presidential candidates, except...

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These disruptors are creating conversations online using the hashtag #ADOS -- ADOS stands for "American Descendants of Slavery" -- a movement which some critics fear could drive a wedge between voters in the black community just months ahead of the 2020 election.


SAMARA LYNN
Good Morning America

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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What's all the fuss about, when it comes time to issue the checks, immigrants would automatically be separated out.


When it comes to reparations, differences in black lineage matter

When it comes to reparations, differences in black lineage matter

Blacks who are the descendants of slaves and black immigrants have divergent histories, levels of wealth

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What we are now witnessing with reparations has been 400 years in the making. And while some will say there have been attempts to trigger a reparations discussion, it is undeniable that the latest push has a significantly different feel and energy.


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Slavery: new digital tools show how important slave trade was to Liverpool's development

Slavery: new digital tools show how important slave trade was to Liverpool's development

If you want to know the extent of the slave trade from Liverpool, use the tools in this article.

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Liverpool council’s decision in January 2020 to contextualise streets named after slave traders shed important light on the town’s infamous history as one of the world’s largest slave trading ports. Between 1696 and 1807 – when Britain abolished its slave trade – Liverpool merchants forcibly transported a phenomenal 1.3 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Of these men, women, and children, 180,000 perished on the deadly Middle Passage – the crossing from Africa to the Americas.


David Eltis, Professor Emeritus of History, Emory University and Nicholas Radburn, Lecturer in Atlantic World History, 1500-1800, Lancaster University

The Conversation•March 4, 2020

Digital reconstruction of French slaver L'Aurore. www.slavevoyages.org/, Author provided


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