Calling out their Kente … (06/08/2020)
On June 8, 2020, a small group of Democratic lawmakers donned Ghanaian kente cloth and knelt on the floor of the U.S. Capitol for nearly nine minutes. The gesture was meant to show solidarity for George Floyd as they unveiled their proposed police reform legislation, and yet – in a disturbingly fitting instance of irony – what the deed actually did was pay an unwitting tribute to the slave trade; the West African slave trade that the kente-wearing Asante tribe in Ghana furthered, and the more modern slave trade that the crime-bill-writing, private-prison-loving Democrats support to this very day …
“How wild to think this is what anyone wants. Hang up the kente cloth and write laws to defund the police.” ~ Nicole Byer
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