Sankofa Movie

When I watched the movie Sankofa, I learned that you can never take anything in life for

granted and to be thankful for the simple things we as a society have freedom to do. It opened

my eyes on how blacks were whipped, beaten, and lynched to death on a slave plantation,

in addition to slaves doing wrong and disobeying the slave system would result in more brutality

from their slave masters. I would mostly consider myself as a nativist because I was born

American in the U.S. but also of African descent.

As well all of my aunts and uncles on my mother and father side were all born in Miami,

FL. My maternal grandmother was born in Ashburn, Georgia. My maternal grandfather was born

in Miami, FL. My paternal grandmother was born in Dothan, Alabama and my paternal

grandfather was born in Georgetown Exuma, Nassau Bahamas. My side of the family which

includes my mother, father, brother, and sister have all originated from Miami, FL. In the

beginning of the movie the meaning Sankofa connected with me because in life we can't always

dwell in the past we have to keep moving into our future so there can be room for success.

In the middle part of the movie Shola is wandering in the dungeon castle filled with slaves

shipped to the U.S. and is captured to only be stripped of her clothes, chained, and whipped

correlated with me because in reality we don't stop and think that it