Some low down shit whitey use to do back in the day. My best advice to all white people is to never bring up the series Roots with a black person in your presence. If a black person brings up the subject of Roots while in your presence just pretend you didn't here him or just say the quote "Man, fuk them white people". I don't give a fuk if this black person is your best friend, no talking about Roots.
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My favorite character was Kunta kinte or was it Toby Waller
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My compassionate side really hopes it wasn't that bad but the logical side of me figures they depicted the times fairly accurately unfortunately.Comment -
Black people in our country have benefitted greatly from the hardships of their ancestors.Comment -
definitely, especially when you have a country to fast track.Comment -
Nothing like a work of fiction portrayed as a work of fact to propel an agenda.
Overview
One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past.
Over the years, both Roots and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whether Roots is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs in Roots were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.
But none of the controversy affects the basic issue. Roots fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed in Roots. Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publish Roots: The 30th Anniversary Edition to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time of Roots.
This "bold . . . extraordinary . . . blockbuster . . ." (Newsweek) begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley.Comment -
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A more brutal and realistic depiction of slavery in America is the movie "Goodbye Uncle Tom"Comment -
just another device for white guilt produced by jews. nothing to see
Modern day african would give his left testicle or breastses to be in the US. Fact. Blacks a privleged class in US today. Fact.Comment -
can you name one great black city in the world?
I'll wait for the answer.
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can you answer the question?
most likely not. it requires honesty... the type of cold-blooded honesty required to take an unbiased look at nature and reality.
why is it that 90% of the nba is black... when the majority of the country is white? is it their work ethic, their hard work and blood sweat and tears... ha ha. I'm sure you could answer that question in a heartbeat, couldn't you?
smoke, neither you, this forum, nor the world at large can handle the reality.Comment -
I could give you an unbiased analysis why the forefathers of the United States did what they did, but I do not wish to get in trouble.
So you guys go on with your fantasy arguments and keep believing in Santa Claus.Comment -
and, btw, do you see Jews walking around and running into Germans and going,
"Auschwitz, look what you did to my people" .... and that was less than 100 years ago. Nope, you won't see that happen.
Even real-life living Auschwitz survivors don't cry like a little baby like this thread-maker.
Carry on. Pardon the interruption.Comment -
Not sure where I cried yo. I just said that I wouldn't be talkin bout no Roots around the colored man is all. Jews and Germans lmSaBao.Comment -
HELLyeah i remember watching that sh*t when i was like 1 years old, kunta kinte was MY MAN and i also remember this n**** name chicken george on that show he was also my man
and I was just recently reading about housing projects and the robert taylor homes and sh*t, all them ****as came north and lived in housing projects and then invented soul music and songs like "Inner City Blues" and sh*t
man i LOVE black people, and yeah it is AMAZING i cannot believe the sh*t whitey pulled on them for all those years!Comment -
Goodbye Uncle Tom, streamed.
Not for the squeamish or sensitive
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LMAO at people who think it was over done. trust me it wasnt close to how bad some of them were treated. Anyone that wasnt white back before we got 'civilized' wasnt human. Period. Indians, Chinese, blacks, etc etc etc all exploited or used as slaves or simply systematically wiped off the face of the Earth.
Now since blacks were property and most people didnt want to lessen the value of their property slaves that acted out or were incorrigible were dealt with in extreme ways. Since they were also bred after awhile a well to do owner with dozens of slaves would do what he could to keep one bad apple from spoiling the whole bunch.
But slaves were treated worse than animals in some cases, especially if they werent useful anymore. So Roots in no way shape or form over did anything, as it is it was probably sugar coated alittle bit.Comment -
Still haven't answered the question.
Once you answer the question, you'll be able to work your way back in time and come to some conclusions that are, shall we say, Watson-esque.
Or you can delude yourself and try to convince yourself that Kepler, Da Vinci, etc were Sub-Saharans.Comment
