Poor choice of the leading Democrats to wear the kente clothe stoles.
"Kente cloth originated with the Ashanti people of Ghana. It dates back 375 years, conceived in a village called Bonwire." *
"The early Ashanti Empire economy depended on the gold trade in the 1700s, by the early 1800s it had become a major exporter of enslaved people. The slave trade was originally focused north with captives going to Mande and Hausa traders who exchanged them for goods from North Africa and indirectly from Europe. By 1800, the trade had shifted to the south as the Ashanti sought to meet the growing demand of the British, Dutch, and French for captives. In exchange, the Ashanti received luxury items and some manufactured goods including most importantly firearms." *
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