African Burial Ground

I'm from New York. And the African Burial Ground is one of the places in the city that I've been to several times. However, I didn't think it would have so much more of an impact on me because I was with my school. I was greatly mistaken. Being at the Burial Ground signifies a struggle of African Americans as a people. Consider this, They were going to build a skyscraper on top of it! Not realizing that there were historical agents in the ground.
Also, watching the video about Amelia shed light on the entire Burial Ground and why the people of African descent did what they did. One criticism that I have is, there was never any statement of WHICH African countries the symbols and majority of the names had come from. I happen to know because it's from my native land of Ghana.
The ideologies of Sankofa, which almost literally means "go and fetch it" is present throughout the burial ground and there are several other Adinkra symbols present such as Gye Nyame "the supremacy of God" , and Fawohodie "freedom". It was an awesome experience being with THE Historically Black University learning about the American portion of my culture. After all, being an African, Caribbean and Afro Latina female, the comes a time where I have to embrace the culture of the land in which I'm living now.