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:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots}}
:{{See also|2020 Antifa riots}}
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered portraits of four Democrat Speakers removed to whitewash more of the party's racist history.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/06/18/pelosi-orders-portraits-of-confederatetied-speakers-removed-from-capitol-building-n2570931</ref> In what can only be regarded as a disrespectful joke, neither Pelosi nor Schumer even knew who [[George Floyd]] was in their attempts to honor his name.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_CHtCl2YLI</ref>
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered portraits of four Democrat Speakers removed to whitewash more of the party's racist history.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/06/18/pelosi-orders-portraits-of-confederatetied-speakers-removed-from-capitol-building-n2570931</ref> In what can only be regarded as a disrespectful joke, neither Pelosi nor Schumer even knew who [[George Floyd]] was in their attempts to honor his name.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_CHtCl2YLI</ref>
Democrat lawmakers, led by House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]] faced overwhelming backlash after wearing Kente cloth during their nearly nine-minute moment of silence in a [[photo-op]] staged to show their alleged sympathy for black victims of police brutality. Some fiddled with iphones while allegedly mourning Floyd. Many users across social media questioned their motives and blasted them for missing the mark.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/08/outrage-at-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-during-moment-of-silence-so-woke-it-actually-feels-racist/</ref>
Author Obianuju Ekeocha posted a video telling Democrats to stop "[[virtue signalling]]" by wearing African cloth.
{{quotebox|"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."<ref>https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1270053042340139008</ref>}}
[[File:Kente cloth of Ashante slave traders.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Democrats wearing the kente cloth of the Ashanti slave trading tribe.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/figures-democrats-wore-kente-cloth-honor-geoge-floyd-fabric-ashanti-slave-traders/</ref>]]
Kente reflects the history of the Ashanti people, from the emergence of the various Ashanti kingdoms to the development of the slave trade up to and including contemporary life in [[Ghana]].<ref>http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/kente-cloth-and-the-history-of-the-ashanti-people.html</ref>
Slavery was historically a tradition with the Ashanti, slaves typically taken as captives from enemies in warfare. The welfare of their slaves varied from being able to acquire wealth and intermarry with the master's family to being a human sacrifice in funeral ceremonies.<ref>[[Alfred Burdon Ellis]],
[https://archive.org/details/tshispeakingpeo01elligoog/page/n302 <!-- pg=290 --> , ''The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610125849/https://books.google.com/books?id=jtMSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA290 |date=2016-06-10 }}, 1887. p. 290</ref><ref>Rodriguez, Junius P. ''The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Volume 1'', 1997. p. 53.</ref>
By the early 1800s the Ashanti had become a major [[export]]er of enslaved people. The slave trade was originally focused north with captives going to Mande and Hausa traders who exchanged them for goods from [[North Africa]] and indirectly from [[Europe]]. By 1800, the trade had shifted to the south as the Ashanti sought to meet the growing demand of the British, Dutch, and French for captives. In exchange, the Ashanti received luxury items and some manufactured goods including most importantly [[firearm]]s. The consequence of this trade for the Ashanti and their neighbors was horrendous. From 1790 until 1896, the Ashanti were in a perpetual state of war involving expansion or defense of its domain. Most of these wars afforded the opportunity to acquire more slaves for trade.<ref>https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/ashanti-empire-asante-kingdom-18th-late-19th-century/</ref>
The modern-day Ashanti claim that slaves were seldom abused,<ref>Johann Gottlieb Christaller,
''Ashanti Proverbs: (the primitive ethics of a savage people)'', 1916, pp. 119-20.</ref> and defend the "humanity" of Ashanti slavery by noting that those slaves were allowed to marry, and that their children were born free.<ref name="History of the Ashanti Empire">
[http://www.ashanti.com.au/pb/wp_8078438f.html ''History of the Ashanti Empire''.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413213927/http://www.ashanti.com.au/pb/wp_8078438f.html |date=2012-04-13 }}</ref> ''[[USA Today]]'' fact checkers rated the claim as True that Democrats wore the garb of slave traders.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/16/fact-check-kente-cloths-have-ties-west-african-slave-trade/5345941002/</ref>
[[Black Lives Matter]] (BLM) protesters beat, kicked in the head, neck, and ribs, and left with a possible concussion [[Wisconsin]] state senator Tom Carpenter, a progressive Democrat who is gay. Carpenter was video recording BLM's protesters destruction of a statue of Col. Chrisitan Heg, an abolitionist and Union officer who was killed in the [[Battle of Chickamauga]].<ref>https://wkow.com/2020/06/23/protesters-pull-down-forward-statue-outside-state-capitol/</ref> Carpenter tried to tell the rioters, "I'm on your side.".<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-protesters-beat-up-state-senator</ref> Not a single prominent Democrat at the federal, state, or local level, four weeks into the nationwide riots, condemned the leftist violence and attacks on innocent people, including their own.<ref>https://youtu.be/JWzbCxlCPbw</ref>
[[Black Lives Matter]] (BLM) protesters beat, kicked in the head, neck, and ribs, and left with a possible concussion [[Wisconsin]] state senator Tom Carpenter, a progressive Democrat who is gay. Carpenter was video recording BLM's protesters destruction of a statue of Col. Chrisitan Heg, an abolitionist and Union officer who was killed in the [[Battle of Chickamauga]].<ref>https://wkow.com/2020/06/23/protesters-pull-down-forward-statue-outside-state-capitol/</ref> Carpenter tried to tell the rioters, "I'm on your side.".<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/violent-protesters-beat-up-state-senator</ref> Not a single prominent Democrat at the federal, state, or local level, four weeks into the nationwide riots, condemned the leftist violence and attacks on innocent people, including their own.<ref>https://youtu.be/JWzbCxlCPbw</ref>