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Black Twitter users mock Dems for donning kente cloth: ‘Don’t treat Africans like we’re children’
Fox News ^ | June 08 2020 | Sam Dorman
Posted on 6/8/2020, 4:37:48 PM by knighthawk
Congressional Democrats’ attempts to look woke appeared to backfire on them Monday when a series of black Twitter users accused them of cultural appropriation.
Author Obianuju Ekeocha posted a video telling Democrats to stop “virtue signalling” by wearing African cloth in the Capitol.
“Excuse me, dear Democrats,” she said. “In your tokenism, you didn’t wait to find out that this thing that you’re hanging around your neck is not just some African uniform — it’s actually the kente material. The kente belongs to the Ghanaian people, mainly the Ashanti tribe.
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38 posted on 06/08/2020 2:12:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Before these elected officials went off to have this “photo op”, wouldn’t you have thought some staffer would have RESEARCHED and found a proper garment? To get called out by the panderees should humiliate them.


41 posted on 06/08/2020 2:21:48 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: piasa

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-twitter-mocks-pelosi-schumer-kente-cloth


47 posted on 06/08/2020 2:33:18 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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