S E1157: Sharif El Meki: Liberation Through our Educators

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Karen speaks with Master Teacher, Sharif El-Mekki, the CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, which he founded to create a national pipeline to attract, develop, support and empower Black teachers to help Black children liberate themselves, their families, and ultimately, society. As the son of two Black Panther Party members and the cousin of two more, Sharif had a strong desire to address issues relating to social and racial justice, equity, and educational opportunities.

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0:00.0	This man is a master educator. He is an incredible person. He is the CEO of the
0:19.2	Center for Black Educator Development. Let me welcome to the show.
0:22.3	Sherief El Mecky. educator development. Let me welcome to the show.
0:22.6	Shearife El Mecky.
0:24.8	Hey, thanks so much. Hey, great to see y'all.
0:28.1	Thanks for having me.
0:29.3	You know, a huge fan, huge fan.
0:31.8	Oh, well, listen, we are in this together.
0:35.0	Like, I feel like the mutual admiration society that we're building is around the work, right?
0:41.0	It's not like, oh, I don't sing dance but you know I ain't
0:43.9	doing none of that you're not singing a dance maybe you can't sing because a lot of y'all
0:47.2	got multi I can't know that I just about this work yes and that should and that should be the fandom, right?
0:55.0	Like, you're doing some things that are changing people's lives.
0:58.2	I love you.
1:00.0	Yes.
1:01.0	You know, and that should be it. So let's start there, you know, former principal, you'd have been in the, in the system, I would call it the broken system that probably was invented to break us, you know?
1:14.4	Yeah, you were there from the other side.
1:17.4	Now you're over here building, is it something different at your building?
1:21.6	Or is it an extension of what was broken?
1:24.0	Oh no it's radically different. You know what we are we're building you know my friend
1:30.8	Dr. Kosovo is saying we'll call it the black teaching tradition, trying to recapture that, that San
1:36.3	Kofo, you know, looking back, fetching what has been lost.
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