Kyle Olson 17 Jun 2020
A “fact check†by USA Today found scarves worn by several congressional Democrats last week, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Check Schumer, are linked to an empire that sold and traded enslaved Africans.
The group knelt in the Capitol Visitors Center for a photo op for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the duration a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on the neck of George Floyd.
At the conclusion of the spectacle, Pelosi required assistance — from a black woman — to stand up.
Pelosi was wearing a Kente cloth. Dave Brandon said of its history:
So check this out, Kente cloth was worn by the Ashanti. It’s made of silk so the affluent wore it. The Ashanti were also known as slave owners and traders. Huh? The Ashanti’s long-time ally, the Akwamu, were among the first ones to profit from the slave trade with the Europeans.
Their captives were almost always prisoners of war, but they were not above to selling Akwamu men who offended the chief. They also kidnapped able-bodied men from other tribes and sold them in the coastal slave markets.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/17/usa-today-fact-check-scarf-worn-by-pelosi-schumer-linked-to-empire-involved-in-west-african-slave-trade/
