Mo Facts Podcast Premiere, ADOS Origins
Adam Curry and Mo introduce the premiere episode of Mo Facts, explaining the show's origin following a series of direct messages and phone calls regarding the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) movement. Mo describes his motivation to fill information gaps left by mainstream media regarding the HR 40 reparations hearing. The discussion establishes ADOS as a specific brand for native-born Black Americans whose lineage traces back to American chattel slavery.
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00:00 July 31st 2019 Mo Facts with Adam Curry this is episode number one. Hey Mo. How you doing? I'm doing good man. So there you go I figured out the title of the show. Alright what'd you come up with? Mo Facts with Adam Curry. Yeah you already got the brand on the YouTube channel so and everywhere else
00:37 I appreciate that and I appreciate you being humble to let me lead on the marquee. You have to lead on the marquee. So we're trying something new here. This is a brand new show. This is the pilot, the premiere episode, number one. And a little background, I received an email from Mo, I don't know, maybe a couple months ago, and he's a listener of the No Agenda show. And he said, you know, if you really want to know what ADOS is about, and I think I talked about DOS, descendants of slavery, because I kept seeing that pop up here and there, but I really didn't have a clue as to what was going on. And so we started, actually I was on my honeymoon, that's what it was, and we were DMing back and forth on Twitter, and I was DMing with you, I think all the way back to Texas,
01:38 On the plane, we had Wi-Fi, so we're DMing back and forth and I was like, holy crap, this guy is opening up a whole new world for me. I had no idea this existed. And then we started chatting a bit. And, you know, these phone calls would often last an hour and I'd take some of what I'd learned and take it over to the No Agenda show and finally I said, you know, this is, we should maybe record this. You know, this, if I'm getting something out of it and you're getting something out of it, maybe other people will. You want to tell the story from your side, Moe? Because we never really talked about that. So it was following the HR 40. Oh, right. The reparations hearing. And you were shining a light on it. But one thing that was missing from the story that you did was ADOS, which ADOS is the reason why the whole reparations talk has kicked up. And I think a lot of people don't realize that. And I wanted to bring attention to that. And I also wanted to bring attention to the fact that
02:42 It's not, ADOS is like a brand of what is called foundational blacks, native blacks. There's several different titles or names going around for black people that are descendants of slavery, American slavery. And that's very important because like you said, you brought up DOS, but even after the term DOS came about, ADOS bloomed from that because we need to be very specific If we're talking about getting rights and getting reparations from America. So I thought I would fill in the blanks that were left out by the mainstream media.
03:19 And I think that was the goal was to leave ADOS out of the mainstream media. So I think you guys are correct me if I'm wrong, like a derivative of the mainstream media. And if it's not there and for you guys to pick it, pull it out. Yeah, we can't get it. You're absolutely right. You can't address it. So absolutely. I thought it was my duty to reach out to you and be boots on the ground. And like you said, we DM'd for like, it seemed like days. Sorry, Tina. I'm sorry about that. Like some odd lovers, like, oh, I'm DMing my man. Yeah. Right. So, and I think you were very receptive to, you know, the information that I was giving you.
