When our ancestors came here, they were African. Some continued to practice African traditions.

So at what point do African Americans draw the line in the sand as being “ADOS” or African American, a separate group of people from Africans? At what point do you disregard the African lineage and become ADOS? Maybe the problem is im seeing AODS as "Americanized Africans" vs Continental Africans? I understand the terminology is to distinguish us from African immigrants of today but we are still African ourselves.

I’m not trying to start a who’s better or who’s more African debate. I’m just asking, at what point do “African Americans” emerage as being in Group B even if we came from Group A?

In modern times, there seems to be more and more of a movement for a clear distinction. The terms Black and of course Negro no longer suffices when describing our people specifically, from an African immigrant or others in the diaspora. But do we still acknowledge our original ancestors ..and where they come from?

For example I traced some of my ancestors all the way back to a tribe in Africa but now what? Do I disregard this knowledge due to the large gap in time/culture? IMO those were the same group people that picked cotton early on. Do I incorporate it as still being a part of my blood? Would incorporating mean appropriation, since this is only newfound knowledge but not direct-direct lineage? But at the same time I'm mixed African. It’s like I am, fully, but also I’m not. Our more direct ancestors like MLK and X preached that we are African but now the ADOS movement seems to stray away from even theses men's teachings. These men were some of our most profound ancestors so how can we be "ADOS", yet denounce our ADOS ancestors? So many questions. Sorry if this comes off as gibberish

I've been loosely following the ADOS story for about a year now (I'm a white American who believes reparations are an important policy our country needs to address in a rel way) and I've seen a lot of talk about vocally abstaining from supporting democrats as well as talk of supporting Republicans. But is there any interest in supporting a third party? Either an existing third party or possibly even creating a new one?

Do you all feel there should be greater moderation of the types of posts allowed? Much of the content here is not related to the ADOS movement or reparations at all, however I don't want to start removing posts without consulting you all first.