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Growing up, we all somehow learned how to suck our teeth, many without realizing when it was that we first learned to...

It turns out, black folks have held on to this custom for generations.

This is two-minute black history.

What You Didn't Learn in School.

Music We've all heard it before.

Don't suck your teeth at me, or who you're sucking your teeth at?

Sucking teeth is so second nature to many of us that we likely don't remember when we first learned it.

Where does it come from?

Suck teeth is the gesture of drawing air through the teeth and into the mouth to produce a loud sucking sound, which is used to express disgust, defiance, disapproval, disappointment, frustration, or impatience, according to researchers.

Many of us grew up with the verbal gesture as it's been linguistically passed down for generations and possibly centuries. Sucking teeth is also called stoop's in the Caribbean. Siptu in Senegal, Surrentu in Mali, and in France.

It's a global gesture found across the African diaspora and is considered one of the various

Africanisms remaining despite enslavement in colonization.

In 2015, French schools moved to ban students from using the gesture.

While sucking teeth is largely considered an insult across our cultures, there is a long

history of white institutions banning culturally significant things and it's nothing but anti-blackness.

Despite our migrations worldwide, both by force and by choice, there are essentialisms that we've kept close and they're beautiful reminders of the expressive, creative, and innovative people we've always been.

No, that's right.

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