Here is why her white students who were astonished that the baby slept immediately after it was backed, mistook Ramata‘s act of kindness and warm for African black power
The woman backing the baby is a professor. And she backed the baby while teaching a class of physiology and anatomy. No ,the baby is not hers. And this scene played out for three hours at a University College in Georgia ,United States of America.
Ramata Sissoko Cissé, an assistant professor of biology at Georgia Gwinnett College in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville, backed the baby for three hours while giving a 3-hour lecture so the mother could take notes. The scene began when the mother of the baby came to class with her baby because the baby minder was unavailable.
As the class began , the baby began to cry and the student couldn’t write her notes . So the Professor asked the student to hand her the baby and remembering the practice in her home country of Mali , she looked for a white lab coat and strapped the baby to her back and within minutes the baby stopped crying and slept off for the three hour duration of the class.
Some of the students were astounded and insinuated that she deployed ‘black magic’ to make the baby sleep.
She explained to them that backing babies is a common practice in Africa and babies sleep off when backed because of warmth .
“Cissé explained that the baby was cozy and warm, with her body temperature next to him, and the matching heat made it easier for him to relax.”
Cissé , according to CNN , was able to incorporate the baby into the lesson, elaborating on concepts related to the nervous system, brain function and metabolism.
Her picture while backing a baby and teaching was tweeted by one of the students and it went viral.
The professor did not expect the huge global reaction her simple act of kindness and compassion engendered , “Love and compassion are part of the philosophy of my classroom,” Cissé said.
“I’m hoping they can spread love, take it to other people who need it,” she said of her students and those who have come across the event which occurred in 2019
