The Democratic Party’s wardrobe malfunction is coming back on them. Recently, even CNN reported “Congressional Democrats criticized for wearing kente cloth at event honoring George Floyd” (cnn.com 6-8-20). Not only are liberals guilty of what they condemn in others: cultural appropriation - but they got it wrong!
Kente cloth originated among the Ashanti tribe in modern Ghana. The Ashanti captured other blacks and sold them into slavery. After the British abolished slavery in 1807, they fought the Ashanti to stop them from enslaving others (Wonders of the African World - Episodes: Slave Kingdoms; Ashanti Kingdom pbs.org). Whites fighting the enslavement of blacks by other blacks in Africa? Why don’t we hear about this more?
