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Obianuju Ekeocha Slams Dems for ‘Cultural Appropriation’ as They Knelt in Kente Cloth

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
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By Tré Goins-Phillips
Editor

June 8, 2020

The woke crowd forgot what wokeness is.

Twitter users were up in arms Monday, after Democratic lawmakers donned Kente cloth — an indigenous Ghanaian textile from the Ashanti tribe — as they knelt in the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C.

Pro-life author Obianuju Ekeocha posted a response to the pandering move, intended to show unity with the Black Lives Matter movement, telling the Democrats: “Don’t treat Africans like we’re children.”

I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.

*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS

— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 8, 2020

I’m sure🤔someone told them that fabric represents black people but in truth a Nigerian like me cannot lay claim to this significant fabric which is very much a part of Ghanaian identity.

Dear democrats,these colors & patterns belong to ancient tribes and mean something to us. pic.twitter.com/nuB1RPBtQA

— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 8, 2020

“Excuse me, dear Democrats,” Ekeocha explained. “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.”

“Excuse me, Democrats,” she continued. “Don’t treat Africans like we’re children. These fabrics and these colorful things that we have within our culture and tradition, they all mean something to us. I know you look at us and you say, ‘Oh, Africans are so cute in all of your colorful dresses.’ Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors and fabrics actually do mean something to us.”

Ekeocha, who didn’t weigh in on the racial unrest in the U.S. “because I am not an American,” wasn’t the only one to criticize the politicians for wearing Kente cloth.

Frederick Joseph, an author and former campaign surrogate for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), ripped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the “disrespectful and appropriative” move.

“You have a great deal to learn,” he added.

If anyone can’t understand why Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and them dressed up like they’re trying to sneak into Wakanda is disrespectful and appropriative you have a great deal to learn. https://t.co/DGsKHCZNQT

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) June 8, 2020

Conservative radio host David Webb posted a tweet of his own Monday, asking the progressive lawmakers, many of whom bemoan “cultural appropriation” if their actions are, in fact, a perfect example of such beavior.

Isn't wearing the African scarves #culturalappropriation or are we past that?

— David Webb (@davidwebbshow) June 8, 2020

The Oxford Dictionary defines “cultural appropriation” as “the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.”

You’d be hard pressed to explain how this doesn’t perfectly fit the progressive left’s definition of “appropriation.”

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