My Scary Journey Into ADOS, the Anti-Immigrant Movement Led by Black Folks

American exceptionalism and xenophobia cleaves the Black struggle once again

Andrew Ricketts
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5 min readJan 31, 2021

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Still from ADOS 2019 conference video.

Scrolling social media feels like, at any moment, I’ll get pulled into one of those haunted houses I hated as a kid. I didn’t know what was in them but didn’t want to terrify myself looking. I fell into one such…

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Andrew Ricketts
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I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.