Sankofa

I found it very nice what you said earlier that in the Turkish language also you don't have gender in the description and that is also so with a lot of African languages so also Swahili the language of the African Union there isn't that kind of gender with the word educator so this is also why in our kindergarten the educators are called Ndezi which is a gender-free word for educator.

And it's a good example that, you know, sometimes going back is going forward, which is that Sankofa symbol.

I don't know if you know the bird that bites its back feathers, which is a kind of a symbol for going back to the past in order to reach the future.

And from what you are sharing, I understood that for a black kid, it's important to be raised with this approach, to connect with the roots, to understand the culture deeply, to embrace the culture deeply.

And it's important that we do so.

And even though we're focusing on this incident that just took place, I want us to do a bit of a Sankofa political historical analysis here.

Now, for those of you not familiar with the phrase Sankofa, the word Sankofa, I should say, is the word that is used to describe a symbol that is a part of the West African Adinkra symbol system.

Now, I know a lot of people know about hieroglyphs.

This ain't the hieroglyphs.

Let me calm down because there's going to be other points in this conversation today where I will have time to ramp up.

We're just a little too early right now, but I'm amped about this one.

I want us to do a Sankofa.

It is 2.22 p.m.

on a Sankofa Sunday.

I like to think of it as,

you know, the symbol of the Sankofa bird, or if you're not familiar with it, that's your homework assignment to look up.

But I like to think about looking back over the week with my feet planted forward.

going into a new week.

So, um, that's it.

Um, trying to give you some positivity to take it to your weekend.