Here are five reasons why I reject the ADOS movement 100%
1. It ignores history. The majority of the African slaves during the Maafa came into the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America not North America. Many of their members are openly hostile to Pan-Africanism. ADOS view African Americans are nearly totally monolithic. The Gullah are African Americans and they have culturally differences to other African Americans. African Americans live in different regions of America with different cultures, family history, and other components of their lives.
2. It advances divisiveness and ignores the international struggle for black liberation. It believes in the myth that our sole duty as African Americans is to get reparations and then everything would be fine. Life doesn't work like that since we do need reparations as African Americans, but we also want black people worldwide free from racism, bigotry, and injustice. Liberation is an international affair. If you don't want black people to be free worldwide, then you are anti-Black by definition. ADOS acknowledges no cultural collaborations among black people worldwide.
3. It offers no cogent, concrete solutions for black people. Proposals made by Antonio Moore and Yvette Carnell (who said that Pan-Africanism is dead, which is a lie. She doesn't like the birthright citizenship when black immigrants contributed heavily in America) focus solely on primarily economic issues. It shows nothing concrete on health care, nothing on housing, nothing on exposing imperialism, nothing powerful on environmental justice, nothing on Pan-Africanism, and nothing on the beauty of Blackness worldwide.
4. ADOS is blatantly xenophobic. It promotes the myth that African Americans have the supreme right to get reparations while ignoring the need of reparations for other people in the African Diaspora. Its agenda is selfish and idolizes American exceptionalism.
5. Its leaders and supporters in many cases include sexists, xenophobes, liars, supporters of imperialism (as American imperialists were involved in occupations, war crimes, and other evils in the world), and deceivers. Many of them claim that Africans did nothing for African Americans when that's a lie. Nelson Mandela came to America to support African Americans. Africans and African Americans worked together to form collaborations, and many African nations allowed refuge for black American freedom fighters.
*Malcolm X before he died wanted unity among black Americans, Africans, Afro-British, Afro-French, and Afro-Latinos in an united struggle to end the system of racism. Therefore, Malcolm X's goals are better than ADOS propaganda.
