Raisin in the Pun

#ADOS is the latest feel good, social media driven movement seeking reparations from the U.S Government for the enslavement of Africans in America. Like many other human and civil rights social media movements, #ADOS was born out of our people’s frustration with the status quo and the current reality of racism directed at and negatively affecting people of color; primarily Africans in America.  It is a movement whose primary mission is to seek compensation payable to African Americans for the forced and free labor extracted from our Ancestors in America from 1619 until the end of the American Civil War.   There are several issues I have with #ADOS that I find problematic. First and foremost, the acronym itself is insulting and highly disrespectful to our ancestors and their rich history, culture and contributions to human civilization prior to what is called American slavery and of which Pan-African people rightfully call the African Holocaust. I am not, nor have I ever ascrib