| | ''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"> | | ''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> | | [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> |