Memes featuring the phrase often include an image of an African leader taken from The African Kingdoms expansion of the video game Age of Empires II, which debuted around the time the meme was created in 2015. The overall intent is to portray blacks as crude, ignorant and uncivilized. Meme versions of the phrase similarly tend to feature images with racist stereotypes of black people, often contrasted with images of Egyptian pharaohs. Users employ phrases such as “We Wuz Kangs,” “We Wuz Kings,” and “Kings N Shiet,” featuring mock black American dialect that is intended to portray blacks as ignorant and a contrast to the ostensibly more civilized ancient Egyptians. The phrase and meme are intended to mock the Afrocentric theories and, by extension, anyone who might believe in them. Originating in 2015 and popularized by the website 4chan, the phrase is a racist shorthand reference to discredited but popular Afrocentric theories that claimed sub-Saharan Africans were descended from ancient Egyptians. “We Wuz Kangs” is a racist catchphrase and collection of memes directed at African-Americans and other people of sub-Saharan African descent. UPDATE: Alexandria Vice Mayor tweets, “Some hate-filled fliers were placed around our City yesterday.ALTERNATE NAMES: We Wuz Kings, Kings N Shiet This is what a politics of hate, as practiced by our president, empowers.” UPDATE: Tom Perriello tweets, “Disgusting stuff in Alexandria. The timing so close to the Fair/Spencer incident at the gym seems more than coincidental. It seems two of them have no direct attribution the one that says “Around Blacks …Never Relax” and the one about Christine Fair). Most of the flyers have the website listed. The police is hopefully looking into this. One neighbor apparently observed three men around 11 pm and maybe someone has a surveillance camera. I have not observed anyone posting the flyers. I took down well over fifty of the flyers. I found them in a multi-block radius from Commonwealth to Mount Vernon Avenues between Clyde Avenue and Custis Avenue. The first signs were right at the Duncan library which is next to the Mount Vernon Community School on East Uhler Avenue and Clyde Avenue. I found them this morning at 7 am when I walked our dog.
UPDATE: According to Del Ray resident Eric Wagner: If anyone sees any signs of this ilk posted again, please alert me.Īnd if anyone sees a person posting signs like these, please call the police.Īnother nasty photo, this time anti-Muslim, courtesy of a Del Ray resident, below. I believe the vicious racist lies and personal attacks, particularly those directed at Christine Fair, may well be an incitement to violence. At the very least, I think she could sue for defamation. Hopefully they will soon have enough and leave. My only solace is that I believe they littered our city with this hate-filled trash as a reaction by them to their knowing how unwelcome in Alexandria they are. I have spoken at many protests against Richard Spencer and his disgusting neo-Nazi band of followers. It is a shocking wake-up call to see such filth, particularly here in our proudly diverse and accepting community. We need to resist this evil, including at rallies like this one, scheduled for tomorrow on King Street in Alexandria.Īlso, see the following statement from Del. The hateful, racist, fascistic fliers (see screen shot to the right) that popped up in Alexandria/ Del Ray today are yet another manifestation of what Trump and his ilk have unleashed in this country.
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