For the last two years, a fairly new organization called American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS), has argued that black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved are in dire financial situations because of the racial wealth gap, and that reparations is one way to address the injustice. Because Williamson wrote a 1997 book, Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens — which discusses reparations as a way to heal racism, “a national character defect” — the group reached out to Williamson in February to talk on co-founder Antonio Moore’s Tonetalks show on Dash Radio and YouTube.