Grassroots organizations, leaders, scholars and activists in the movement for reparations gathered on Saturday in Georgia for a two-day event centered on reparative justice to atone for the U.S.’ enduring legacy of slavery.
The National Reparations Convention was being held at Georgia State University this weekend “to develop a comprehensive, unified demand for reparations,” according to a website about the gathering.
A who’s who of leaders in the movement for reparative justice are listed as either being National Reparations Convention keynote speakers or panelists “who are driving the reparations movement across America, the Slavery Diaspora and Globally,” the website says.
Notably, it also says “there are numerous organizations advocating for reparations on the local, national and international levels that would benefit from coming together.”
However, on Saturday, one of the panelists originally scheduled to participate in the National Reparations Convention said her invitation had been revoked.
Yvette Carnell, CEO of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, a self-described organization that “prioritizes reparations for descendants of chattel slavery in the United States of America,” posted on the social media app formerly known as Twitter that she had been “DISINVITED” from the National Reparations Convention.
Carnell’s post included a statement from the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, which lamented that many of its members had already bought tickets “specifically to see Ms. Carnell participate in two scheduled panels.”
ADOS is a popular acronym for “American Descendants of Slavery.”
The group said it found irony in the decision to disinvite Carnell because the National Reparations Convention “has chosen to silence an essential voice in this movement while accommodating another panelist whose tribe historically owned slaves.”
The statement went on to say “that Pan-African organizations, which should be the…
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