I'd rename it Ft. Thomas, after George Thomas...Southerner, Virgina born and raised, led armies for the Union.
Posted on 06/13/2020 10:23:06 AM PDT by John Semmens
What was meant as a gesture of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter claim to represent the interests of African-Americans turned into an ironic joke. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and twenty other Democrats wore scarves made of Kente cloth as they knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds in the Capitol as a tribute to George Floyd. Kente scarves were traditionally worn by the wealthy leaders of the Ashanti tribes of what is now known as Ghana. The ugly truth is that these leaders were major players in the slave trade.
Nevertheless, Pelosi insisted that "the Kente cloth comes from Africa. It was produced by African people. There was no way we could've known that it had any role with slavery unless we had checked beforehand. The nit-picking historians are spoiling our intended political coup by raising awareness that didn't need to be raised and at a very inopportune moment."
Schumer was even more blunt in his observation that "Henry Ford told us that history is bunk. I'm with him 100% on that. The meaning of our demonstration is for us to decide. Whatever association the cloth may have had with slavery in the past is no longer relevant today."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=405170.0
Here’s what I don’t understand about modern cancel culture.
We have to change the name of Fort Bragg because the Bragg guy wanted to perpetuate slavery and fought for the Confederacy.
Okay. Why don’t we have to cancel the Democrat Party for the same reason? If anything connected to the Confederacy is bad, why does the Democrat Party escape responsibility?
Patience, Grasshopper, patience. We’ll get there.
If Whatever association the cloth may have had with slavery in the past is no longer relevant today.....BUTT then why is slavery relevant today.....Shummer YOU can not it both way ...Shummer and Nancy are ignorant FOOLS
I'd rename it Ft. Thomas, after George Thomas...Southerner, Virgina born and raised, led armies for the Union.
By this logic,the confederate flag is no longer relevant today either.
Betcha 99 percent of kids now graduating from high school and college think the Republican party supported the Confederacy.
She'll be calling for the demonicRAT Party itself to be toppled.
Because you’re racist.
I was kind of hoping they’d wear bones in their noses.....
The truth is Black Africans raided their Black neighbors killing all who resisted. Then sold those they didn’t want to Arab slavers who took those they wanted and sold the culls to Portuguese, Dutch, English and Yankee slavers.
Only the lucky few made it to North America. Where their lot was far better than their cousins who went to the Caribbean, South America where disease and starvation made life short and brutal or the Islamic world where they had a eunuch fate.
= trannies not by own choice
= men stuck in a tranny body
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