So we have Nancy Pelosi and her congressional minions wearing Kente scarfs at a kneel down ceremony for George Floyd.
One problem. Kente cloth is a ceremonial accouterment of the Ashanti Kingdom. The Ashanti were slavers. They owned African slaves and sold African slaves to the Europeans for weapons and other European goods.
Looks like the Congressional Democrats, including the Congressional Black Caucus, need to brush up on their Black Studies programs. They don't even know that their Kente cloths celebrate slavery in the same way as some say the Stars and Bars celebrates slavery.
One problem. Kente cloth is a ceremonial accouterment of the Ashanti Kingdom. The Ashanti were slavers. They owned African slaves and sold African slaves to the Europeans for weapons and other European goods.
Looks like the Congressional Democrats, including the Congressional Black Caucus, need to brush up on their Black Studies programs. They don't even know that their Kente cloths celebrate slavery in the same way as some say the Stars and Bars celebrates slavery.
Asante empire, Asante also spelled Ashanti, West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extending from the Comoé River in the west to the Togo Mountains in the east, the Asante empire was active in the slave trade in the 18th century and unsuccessfully resisted British penetration in the 19th.
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