The ADOS movement focuses on specific lineage tracing back to American chattel slavery and sharecropping rather than broad racial categories. The mantra "cut the check" emphasizes that reparations are a debt for services rendered, not a social program subject to government oversight on how the money is spent. The hashtag #Tangibles2020 represents a growing segment of voters who refuse to participate in elections unless specific, tangible benefits are offered to the ADOS community.

