{"id":460184,"date":"2018-01-31T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/us-lawmakers-wear-ghanas-kente-to-protest-trumps-comment\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T16:40:54","slug":"us-lawmakers-wear-ghanas-kente-to-protest-trumps-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/us-lawmakers-wear-ghanas-kente-to-protest-trumps-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers wear Ghana&#8217;s &#8216;kente&#8217; to protest Trump\u2019s comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/80765948.295.jpg\" alt=\"Us Lawmakers In Kente\" title=\"Us Lawmakers In Kente\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The members appeared unenthusiastic while watching the speech of Prez Trump<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1517416854_476_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Members of the Congressional Black Caucus wore traditional African kente cloth to Tuesday night\u2019s State of the Union Address to protest President Trump\u2019s \u201cshithole countries\u201d comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearing kente cloth to the #SOTU with my fellow @OfficialCBC Members to stand in solidarity with people from you-know-what countries,\u201d Rep. Bobby Scott tweeted before the speech.<\/p>\n<p>The colourful cloth is associated with Ashanti royalty in now modern-day Ghana and has a history in West African nations.<\/p>\n<p>The members appeared unenthusiastic while watching the speech, and did not applaud when President Trump touted his record with African-American unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican American unemployment has been declining for a decade yet it\u2019s still double white unemployment,\u201d Congresswoman Alma S. Adams tweeted during the speech.<\/p>\n<p>Kente is a type of silk and cotton fabric made of interwoven cloth strips and is native to the Akan ethnic group of Southern Ghana. It is an Akan royal and sacred cloth worn only in times of extreme importance and was the cloth of kings.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members appeared unenthusiastic while watching the speech of Prez Trump Members of the Congressional Black Caucus wore traditional African kente cloth to Tuesday night\u2019s State of the Union Address to protest President Trump\u2019s \u201cshithole countries\u201d comment. \u201cWearing kente cloth to the #SOTU with my fellow @OfficialCBC Members to stand in solidarity with people from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}