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Author Obianuju Ekeocha posted a video telling Democrats to stop "[[virtue signalling]]" by wearing African cloth.
 
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>}}
 
{{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>}}
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[[File:Tom Carpenter.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Black Lives Matter [[homophobe]]s beat a [[gay]] Democrat state senator and left him for dead. Party leaders refused to condemn the violence.]]
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[[File:Tom Carpenter.jpeg|left|300px|thumb|Black Lives Matter [[homophobe]]s beat a [[gay]] Democrat state senator and left him for dead.<ref>https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/25/wisconsin-gay-democrat-state-senator-violence-attack-tim-carpenter-black-lives-matter/</ref>  Party leaders refused to condemn the violence.]]
 
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>  
 
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]],
 
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]],
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