Sankofa Chicago | movie | 2021 | Official Teaser - video Dailymotion

Sankofa Chicago is a 68-minute documentary that reflects upon the importance of learning black history in order to shape | dG1fMzNtQm5Qam5TbDQ

Transcript

00:00A state representative is calling for the end of history classes in Illinois schools

00:05until appropriate alternatives are developed.

00:08It costs us as a society in the long run forever when we don't understand our brothers and sisters

00:16that we live, work, and play with.

00:19States are too frightened to get involved in curriculum work.

00:22The way that our country's history is taught is deliberate.

00:29I think for white kids, it kind of leaves them blinded and kind of bubble wrapped in this lie.

00:38It's being able to understand what happened, how it happened,

00:42and what we can do to dismiss those things that had a lot of negative baggage on them

00:46and go forward in a positive way.

00:50Now Ford is calling on the State Board of Education and all local school districts

00:54to take immediate action by removing current history books and curriculum

00:58that he says unfairly communicate history.

01:02The fight is to get the textbooks out of those classrooms.

01:05We can no longer, in my opinion, have the same textbooks that we know is inaccurate.

01:12And I've said somewhat like lead in the water, you know, poison to the student.

01:19We need to get them out of those classrooms, otherwise we're perpetuating and teaching the untruths.

01:33I'd love to see that the two第一