 Reparations is a sacred claim. It's not something that I'm willing to negotiate away, not 1%. Carnell is the president of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to pushing for a federal program to pay reparations to the American descendants of slaves. That's where the acronym ADOS comes from. And that's who Carnell says should be uniquely eligible for reparations from the U.S. government.