Guled Said

Zephyrus: What does Black History Month mean to you?

Guled Said: Black History Month means all the black excellence that you didn’t hear about in school. Black excellence that you didn’t see, that needs to be seen by the world. Because it’s very important. All excellence is important but black excellence … people don’t really see it. There’s beyond rappers and basketball-players; we’ve got scientists, doctors, inventors… like, there’s so many things invented by black people and I wish the school would know about that.

Z: Do you believe that EHS sufficiently recognizes Black History Month?

G.S.: Yes…and no. Because, I like the announcement they made; it was very powerful, but then, we have only one group, the Black Student Union, and we’re doing a Black History Month event on the 24th and that’s the only thing we’re doing. I don’t really know what to expect from the school, I mean, I guess it’s kind of on us black students to bring Black History to Edina and show it. It’s like, we can’t rely on the staff to do it because they might not even know about it and it’s kind of weird for a white teacher to say, ‘oh, here’s some black history’. It’s not weird, but they might feel uncomfortable.