M. P. J. is A.D.O.S.🇺🇲

People will honestly work to destroy your reputation just so they can steal your work, because destroying Black celebrity worship is what Antonio & I have been doing for a decade.

I’ve lost count of how many good people this movement has lost to the viciousness of FBA & their hangers on. Doxxing, harassment, attempts to get people fired, even efforts to have their children taken away. Just the vilest personal attacks imaginable. And some of y’all are STILL at it, all while bragging about what you’re supposedly “building.” We should all be open to criticism, even harsh criticism, but you can’t build a movement by destroying the people in it.

We need an internal moral reckoning in the #ADOS community because 50 Cent has always been awful, but too many people giggled right along & rewarded his behavior. A community unwilling to establish moral standards, enforce boundaries, and ostracize bad actors will eventually be defined by them.

Oh my! Quite the lesson/ether in New York government & legislation. Take some time to read 🤓 this thread. And like @ReggieFromBOS always says, choose your fighters wisely.

I knew both Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon (RIP to both) of Black Agenda Report. Both supported my work during the Obama years. Bruce later criticized ADOS as too nationalist and anti-immigrant, but he respected me enough to CALL me before publishing his critique. That’s what intellectual integrity looked like. And both Glen and Bruce believed political people actually DID political things. They believed in organizing, building institutions, and confronting power. One of Bruce’s criticisms of ADOS was that he didn’t believe we would ever build real chapters or an organizational infrastructure. He was wrong. We did both. But even his criticism was rooted in the belief that politics demanded more than rhetoric. I hate saying how dead people would respond to anything, but both men’s essays are still available, and I suspect they would have had very little patience for FD Signifier’s milquetoast, sloppy, political commentary masquerading as radical analysis. So watching FD Signifier bastardize their work on the Black Misleadership Class is astonishing. Glen and Bruce were serious socialist radicals whose critique of capitalism was central to their politics. To watch FD “it’s lit over here” Signifier borrow their language while emptying it of its ideological substance, and then presenting that as some profound political analysis, is an insult to their intellectual legacy. I’m genuinely floored by it. You don’t get to appropriate the intellectual tradition of people who spent their lives challenging power while reducing politics to commentary, branding, and content creation. Y’all don’t despise FD enough. If you want to really understand this stuff, read Adolph Reed’s books, starting with “Class Notes”. He actually created the phrase “racial brokerage politics”. I’m a harsh critic of Booker T Washington, but you can’t criticize him selling out or ‘buying in’ without also seriously interrogating his funding of Black radical journalist T. Thomas Fortune, including secretly helping finance his newspaper, The New York Age. Go read Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon and then the primary sources. FD Signifier is simply a hack.

Look at what you Pretendian weirdos did. I try not to hate people, but I honestly hate y’all. I do. Because reducing the discussion to “we weren’t all slaves” completely misses the point. The issue isn’t whether slavery was the entirety of our history. It’s whether the government has addressed the consequences of slavery, Jim Crow and generations of state-sanctioned discrimination. Do those statues reduce the racial wealth gap? Afford us civil rights protections? Give resources to our communities? And where’s the “substance over symbolism” in these statues? This man & his cohorts are fools who I hate being associated with. They embarrass me. Their self esteem is so low that most of them are sticking feathers 🪶 in their hair & anchoring themselves in a history that doesn’t belong to them. I also blame the creator of Malanoid Nation & Dane Calloway for this nonsense. Clowns 🤡. There will be a harsh consequence for choosing to be led by charlatans & fools. It’s coming.

Exactly this!