The Masks We All Wear | Ashanti Branch | TEDxMarin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ต.ค. 2016
- Can we share our authentic selves while negotiating the often rigid pressure of cultural roles? There is surprising power in unveiling what we often hide, deny, repress or ignore. What if we showed the world what’s behind our masks?
The Ever Forward Club and Ashanti were featured last year in the documentary, “The Mask You Live In,” which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Ashanti Branch works to change how young men of color interact with their education and how their schools interact with them. Raised in Oakland by a single mother on welfare, Ashanti left the inner city to study civil engineering at Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo. A construction project manager in his first career, his life changed after he tutored struggling students and realized his passion for teaching. During Ashanti’s first year teaching high school math, in 2004, he started The Ever Forward Club to provide support for African American and Latino males who were not achieving to their potential. Since then, Ever Forward has helped all of its more than 150 members graduate from high school, and 93% of them have gone on to attend two- or four-year colleges, military or trade school.
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I believe the documentary, "The Mask You Live In" is a must see for anyone who has boys or works with them. It literally changed my life.
Thank you 🙏
Most definitely. It haunts me-how can I bring forth what I found in this movie. And it gives me great hope. It points us in a positive direction. And it’s visual proof that Ashanti Branch exists and is full of love.
I had to watch it for my Intro to Sociology class. Which is what brought me here. It was definitely hard to watch, but it's a beautiful way to change the conversation around masculinity.
a person once told me that life is a journey to the inside. I feel like after birth every day we stray further away from ourselves and the hardest part is to find a way back to our self. The problem however is when im leaving the house in the morning im getting overfloated with informations. Input everywhere and in the evening im to tired to look inside myself. It is so important to make yourself little space everyday and try to feel yourself. when do we really ask ourself " How do i feel?" and being real not only to me but to other people aswell is a huge step to our true nature. im so happy to see this guy teachin the importans of being authentic !
Love this man since I've watched The Mask you live in for the first time
Incredibly powerful talk. This man is a legend in our community. The world is a better place with you in it Ashanti.
So good, so spot on. Its happening, but we have to be open to holding that safe space, for ourselves, and then for others. Authenticity and non-judgement has been the best medicine I've ever found. Thank you Ashanti!
A boy 18 at my son 14 school just committed suicide 4 days ago. As a mother i feel so sad cz he was lost to us and all who loved him. Feel so helpless to the next kid who gets this desperate and takes this exit. I wana help and i dont want my son to ever EVER feel that way. I am so sad.
What a wonderful talk. I will definitely share because Mr. Ashanti expresses such an important message. Thank you!
Loved this totally, simple yet very powerful and very genuine. Thank you Mr. Ashanti and God bless.
I'm going to show this to all the people I care about because it's so true, especially for men. I was just talking about this today how men aren't allowed to express themselves because it's deemed as "weak" and it's so sad. I could talk about this forever.
Casmira Zeviani 100% agreed with you👍
Thank you so much
Yes go ahead show it to People
Yeah
Girls feel the same too, why do people assume boys suffer from this especially? Women actually suffer from depression twice as much as men
Love it! I found that community in The ManKind Project. I have learn all the things that I thought everyone else already knew.
So much yes to everything in this talk.
Great!
This is amazing this man is amazing this message is amazing
Love it so much
Please pardon the logo. Just discovered this and the Documentary, “The Mask we Live In” thanks to a posting from RV World. Surprised by the limited amount of response. I think this is a huge issue that has gotten little attention. The “mask” that many (if not, I think most) men wear often comes with a lot of “Body armor” as well. Speaking, perhaps not just for myself, learned shame, amplifies, isolates,and hides the agonizing problem. Which, as has been pointed out, can have dire consequences. Yes, thank you Eleanor. I was surprised, relieved, and overjoyed to read of your concern and how you could, “talk about it forever.” Seems I could too.
Amazing talk Ashanti! I want to live in that world too.
Ashanti in my language means chaos
Amazing work Ashanti
l wish he was my teacher
he already is
I love your talk. Thanks Eleanor
What a cool guy :)
i want to be like him.
Lol 😂
Deadass this dude is terrible at storytelling and getting his point across. all I got outta this was he let his mother get beat while he sat in a car crying about it. And he become a bad teacher decided to invite students to lunch to try and get better but apparently they told him "school not cool" now he says they all got mask on? This dude just need to work on his story telling cuz this ted talk could of been amazing but he made it terrible