The beginning part of the woman not being able to mark Latino on the Census brought back memories for me when I was in elementary school. I am half black and half white. So during SOLs, surveys, etc, that asked your race or ethnic background I had a hard time because it would always say choose one. I would raise my hand and ask the teacher which one should I chooses and I would be told pick whichever one I felt I felt like I was, but if the choice was to hard to just put other. I never understood why I had to choose just one really until I was in high school, but even then I found it ridiculous and let teachers know I thought it was stupid had to choose just one option. I also never knew that Latino was an option until the 1980s.
I really liked all the information on the Sankofa. A line that I liked from the reading was the Sankofa urges us to reflect on and learn from the past. This is something I do a alot of. I have learned and grown so much from the things I did in the past.
Another thing that made me think was the part on cell phones and malls. I thought about when I was in middle school and freshman year in high school before I had a cell phone. During these years the way me and my friends communicated was through notes even if the note was five pages long, it was how we stayed communicated. It was always a challenge between everyone to find new/better ways to fold a note. Then, once everyone started getting cell phones notes disappeared fast. You were considered stuck in the past if you still wrote notes. So, in ways I think cell phones have truly ruined communication between people.
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