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The story behind the kente cloth worn by Black members of Congress at Trump’s SOTU
Grio ^ | 01/31/2018 | Natasha Alford

Posted on 01/31/2018 2:46:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

Black members of Congress made sure they would be heard last night, even if President Donald Trump was doing all the talking.

Members of the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) wore brightly colored yellow, green, black and red kente cloth accents to President Trump’s first State of the Union address, as a sign of defiance against his “sh*thole* comments about African and Caribbean countries.

“The whole idea was to show support for Africa, particularly after the President called Africa and Haiti s-holes,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in an exclusive interview with theGrio. “We thought it would be important for us to demonstrate our support in some way.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thegrio.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 115th; africa; california; cbc; haiti; kente; kentecloth; maxinewaters; trumpsotu
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To: Pietro
Empty symbolism.

Yep, protesting something that never happened (sorry, I believe Trump before I believe Dickless Durbin).

81 posted on 01/31/2018 3:29:08 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: Fido969

And you wouldn’t have to go back to the 1940s to find one. In fact, for many years now the DOJ crime statistics have shown that almost 100% of black/ white interracial rape is black on white. White on black rape is statistically nil.


82 posted on 01/31/2018 3:29:12 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m glad they wore those outfits; we no longer have to pretend those particular people wearing them are “American”.

That garbage just screams, “I can’t assimilate”...


83 posted on 01/31/2018 3:30:25 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“In addition to kente cloth, members wore round red pins with the name “Recy” as a tribute to 97-year-old Recy Taylor of Alabama, who survived a gang rape by six white men in 1944 and never saw justice.”

This is Trump’s fault?


84 posted on 01/31/2018 3:30:44 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well, what are ya gonna do, a shit-hole is a shit-hole is a shit-hole.


85 posted on 01/31/2018 3:30:49 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Responsibility2nd
"The whole idea was to show support for Africa..."

All they accomplished was identifying themselves as enemies of America.

86 posted on 01/31/2018 3:31:00 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: BenLurkin

>>Here’s the truth: They are racists. And the scarves are an overt display of their racism.<<

BINGO! You have it exactly right, and it has burned my arse for decades that these OVERT Racists have gotten a free pass to display their racism to the world without even a freaking whimper of protest. Sickens me bigtime!


87 posted on 01/31/2018 3:32:50 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: proust

But “we wuz kayngs ‘n’ sheeit”. That’s what’s important. “Muh feelz.”


88 posted on 01/31/2018 3:34:49 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: proust
Kinte cloth never fed a hunger child.

If they're hand woven in Africa by African women, they probably have.

This is all a non-story, though. Yesterday's fashion choices won't be remembered tomorrow.

89 posted on 01/31/2018 3:35:16 PM PST by x
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To: Mears

>>Downright insulting,and VERY low class.<<

Without a doubt the most racist people in America.


90 posted on 01/31/2018 3:35:37 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: SkyDancer
Sure are a lot of racist white Christian folks working there

I personally know some missionaries that worked tirelessly there!

91 posted on 01/31/2018 3:36:38 PM PST by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer . . . Now What is the Question?)
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To: realcleanguy

F that sh*thole excuse for a “country” which to this day maintains as one of its national “heroes”, a man who slaughtered white infants. Let them get their gibmes from other blacks.


93 posted on 01/31/2018 3:37:54 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Let’s hope they don’t give German-Americans any ideas. Those boys will show up in lederhosen and start pushing people around.


94 posted on 01/31/2018 3:38:17 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Well, it has nothing to do with prosperity, that is.


95 posted on 01/31/2018 3:39:06 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Daffynition

I wish that gullible whites would open their eyes and see that it’s not, and may never have been, about equality. It’s about upending the past order (and just see how that’s working out in South Africa).


96 posted on 01/31/2018 3:39:45 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Delta 21

Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017

On September 3, 1944, Taylor was kidnapped while leaving
church and gang-raped by six white men. Despite the men’s
confessions to authorities, two grand juries subsequently
declined to indict the men; no charges were ever brought
against her assailants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor

Tawana Brawley was 1987-88


97 posted on 01/31/2018 3:40:27 PM PST by deport
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To: Responsibility2nd

‘Kente’? As in Kunta Kente? They are friggin’ racists!!!!

(sarcasm is both on and off)


98 posted on 01/31/2018 3:42:37 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ( Trump is The Storm)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Please help me here. Were Durbin’s “recollections” of the Meeting verified by independent sources and / or President Trump and I missed it?

I didn’t see the word “alleged” used in the story.


99 posted on 01/31/2018 3:43:11 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Shithole".)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Effem. The ones who weren’t there, too.....


100 posted on 01/31/2018 3:43:22 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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