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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait.   I know this is just a reunion of the Trolls movie, and I didn't bring my popcorn  :lol: but.... I literally have "still I rise" on my forearm, in typewriter font.  I am 97.4% sure that OP wasn't writing about me, my kids aren't in elementary school yet.   Unless the daycare got a PTA and didn't tell me, but I doubt it.  LOL.  It never once occurred to me that it was appropriation.  I struggled with addiction and suicidal attempts and depressive disorder, and rose every time I stumbled.  The poem was and is so meaningful to me.

I have a friend who has a sankofa bird tattooed on her forearm, and I am not one to get super into the SJW thing, other than the obvious cornrows / headdresses / dreads / etc. ... but this seemed to be appropriation.  What do y'all think?  Please don't call troll, I'm just a boring teacher with 3 kids under 4, I don't troll, other than singing the soundtrack for the  kids.  Her description when she put her tattoo on facebook was (and this comment on DCUM took me ages because I went to her page and found it to copy and paste lol) - 
[i]Sankofa is an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana.  The literal translation of the word and the symbol is 'it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind.'  The sankofa symbolizes the Akan people’s quest for knowledge among the Akan with the implication that the quest is based on critical examination, and intelligent and patient investigation. Sankofa teaches that we must go back to our roots to move forward. We should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us so that we can achieve our full potential 
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