Remember the day the Democrats wore the African scarves to supposedly project they cared about black lives? But, the Kente Cloth they wore was a symbol of an African Empire that held other Africans in slavery and fed the slave trade?
A few years ago I would have thought it was a stupid mistake, now I understand their need for symbolism. And, that symbolism will be their downfall. They knew full well they were projecting their real goals by wearing those symbols, they just didn’t think they would get caught.
Even USA Today’s fact checkers had to begrudgingly admit those scarves were worn by African slave traders, albeit in a watered down explanation.
Symbolism will be their downfall.
Remember the day the Democrats wore the African scarves to supposedly project they cared about black lives? But, the Kente Cloth they wore was a symbol of an African Empire that held other Africans in slavery and fed the slave trade?
A few years ago I would have thought it was a stupid mistake, now I understand their need for symbolism. And, that symbolism will be their downfall. They knew full well they were projecting their real goals by wearing those symbols, they just didn’t think they would get caught.
Even USA Today’s fact checkers had to begrudgingly admit those scarves were worn by African slave traders, albeit in a watered down explanation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/16/fact-check-kente-cloths-have-ties-west-african-slave-trade/5345941002/ Symbolism will be their downfall.