{"id":74405,"date":"2020-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74405"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"cultural-appropriation-for-ye-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74405","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Appropriation For Ye, But Not For We"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atinkaonline.com\/fm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nancy-pelosi-democrats-kente-cloth-880x440.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re wearing &#8220;Kente&#8221; cloths &#8211; apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa.  They have cultural significance.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some actual Africans were not amused at the virtue-accessorizing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is more Kente fabric in this picture than at a Ghanaian traditional wedding.<br><br>The DC African-fabric shop is probably now sold out in order to meet the demand of this ridiculous tokenism by Democrat politicians.<br>Dear Africans step aside!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CulturalAppropriation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CulturalAppropriation<\/a> at its worst. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EQufUV45yA\">pic.twitter.com\/EQufUV45yA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/obianuju\/status\/1270037683386097664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But remember &#8211; don&#8217;t go eating burritos, honky.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63101\">Urban Progressive Privilege<\/a>:    when making the right progressive-y noises is enough, at least within your social circle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the House Democratic leadership, doing their (nothing but) symbolic photo-op before the George Floyd funeral: They&#8217;re wearing &#8220;Kente&#8221; cloths &#8211; apparently Ghanaian in this case, but there are similar adornments all through Africa. They have cultural significance. And to Pelosi and her little claque, they are nothing but costumes. Some actual Africans were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,54,18,349],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-74405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-pc","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74411,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74405\/revisions\/74411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}