"I have heard about a number of different "black" professors and intellectuals who wear Western 1700s-style clothing in 'protest' of Eurocentrism. I guess they wait for people to ask why they are wearing weird clothes and then go on a long rant about something. But 99% of the people who see them from afar probably think they are just colonial junkies on their way to a Renaissance fair."
This sounds like a stupid idea to me. It would be equivalent to us as anti-Zionists walking around wearing kippahs!
it helped contrast them against the linen suits and lace parasols of plantation families
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg6283/#msg6283