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American Descendants of Slavery

American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS)

The American Descendants of Slavery Movement (ADOS) is known as a movement that promotes reparations for African Americans in the United States. It was started by Yvette Carnell a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. and attorney Antonio Moore. Carnell and Moore are major advocates for ADOS. It was formed to reclaim and restore the national character of African American identity, and the group's experience of being enslaved in America (USA). It uses YouTube and twitter to promote reparations in the United States of America. ADOS supporters see reparations as a way to address wealth gaps in the United States of America due to slavery and systemic discrimination of African Americans.[1] The ADOS movement seeks repairative justice by way of reparations. ADOS feels that a debt is owed African Americans due to 400 years of slavery in U.S. of America. ADOS seeks compensation for the a wide-range of damages that have been done to African Americans. ADOS has created a national dialogue that started on social media and has gone into mainstream media. It has followers and it has anti-ADOS foes. The hashtag is #ADOS.
The ADOS movement has been vocal in the 2020 United States presidential election. The 2020 presidential Democratic primary candidates have been approached at campaign events, by various media outlets, and asked if they support the need for reparations for African Americans. Democratic President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton did not support reparations for African Americans.
Many of the Democratic party candidates have stated their support of a House bill from Sheila Jackson Lee for a commission to be formed to study the impact of slavery, and continued discrimination against African Americans. [2] [3] Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, and Beto O'Rourke have said that they would support such a bill. The commission would make recommendations in the form of apology and compensation. Marianne Williamson was one of the first candidates to address the issues of reparations in her run for presidency of the United States. She stated that anything less than $100 billion dollars would be a slap in the face to Africans. William Darity a scholar and authors on the issue of reparations stated it was "paltry".
Cory Booker has plans for a companion bill to HR 40 bill. The HR 40 legislation was originally introduced in 1989 by John Conyers. [4][5][6][7][8][9]
Claims of reparations and economic redress for slavery and exploitation of African Americans has historical roots in American history. It can be tracked to the end of slavery and the promise of 40 acres and a mule. Most recently the author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. In 2014 he wrote an article for Atlantic magazine, "The Case for Reparations". The case for reparations has also been written about by social scientists and scholars such as; Thomas Shapiro, Trevon Logan, William Darity, Darrick Hamilton, and other writers and researchers.[10][11]
A 2016, United Nation's Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent argues that the United States does owe African Americans reparations.
This conclusion was part of a study by the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, pointing to the continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history.
In 1861 an anonymous writer wrote, "By our unpaid labor and suffering, we have earned the right to the soil, many times over and over, and now we are determined to have it.[12]

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  1. ^ https://ados101.com/
  2. ^ https://jacksonlee.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congresswoman-sheila-jackson-lee-introduces-legislation-for-a-commission
  3. ^ https://thehill.com/homenews/house/437286-reparations-bill-wins-new-momentum-in-house
  4. ^ https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/11/18246741/reparations-democrats-2020-inequality-warren-harris-castro
  5. ^ https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a27170939/2020-democratic-reparations-issues/
  6. ^ https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/reflections-ados-movement
  7. ^ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/24/sanders_i_dont_support_reparations_for_slavery_for_the_same_reason_as_barack_obama.html?fbclid=IwAR3ywEIWYQ6tsAD19vX5DI0LZmyUIZ_V51_7huPJbCH1D5FBrwBSudtZ524
  8. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/politics/2020-democrats-race-policy.html
  9. ^ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/09/cory-booker-introduce-slavery-reparations-bill-senate/3409097002/
  10. ^ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/-baby-bonds-could-help-the-u-s-wealth-gap
  11. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/27/u-s-owes-black-people-reparations-for-a-history-of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4252a4f02a84
  12. ^ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/


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