A young African man schooling abroad sparked reactions on social media with his response after his teacher asked him to make a sentence with the word ‘establish’. The student was using the viral TikTok ‘Esther was black and broke’ trend to make his sentence before the teacher asked who Esther is.
The teacher told him to identify if she was his sister or wife. The young man then rephrased his sentence and said, “My wife Esther was broke and poor, but when we married, she established.”
The teacher asked what she had established. The man responded that she had established a business. The teacher exclaimed: Wow, and one classmate asked if she should show him something; he gave her permission. She then played a Update of the established trend, making the whole class burst into laughter.