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Posted on 07/23/2015 2:36:12 PM PDT by BBell
New Orleans-area filming on a "Roots" remake, slated to air on three A&E networks in 2016, is expected to begin in mid-August. An open call for background actors was issued Tuesday (July 21) by Caballero Casting. The project, to be simulcast on History, A&E and Lifetime, was announced in April.
The four-night, eight-hour project will film here through December. Filming will also take place in Africa, an A&E spokesman said Wednesday.
Laurence Fishburne will portray Alex Haley in the "Roots" remake, based on Haley's novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" as well as new historical scholarship, according to A&E's initial announcement of the project.
The original 12-hour 1977 miniseries, starring LeVar Burton as the slave Kunta Kinte, was a cultural landmark and ratings powerhouse. Burton is a co-executive producer of the new project.
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100 years ago, Birth of a Nation was released. It villified blacks and carpetbaggers while glorifying the KKK. It fed on and stoked grievances.
Lots of films today are going the same route.
Who knows how we’ll look back on films made today that play up racism.
I watch a lot of you tube videos, and in every darned one of them, there i a banner at the bottom with obama’s ugly mug on it. Are we living in North Korea?
Haley himself was forced to acknowledge, a large section of his book -
including the plot, main character and scores of whole passages - was
lifted from “The African,” a 1967 novel by white author Hal Courlander.
Yes, I remember a film came out several years ago that glorified the Black Panthers.
Now that’s weird. Didn’t it turn out to be BS all along? Maybe it’s not BS anymore and just plain of fertilizer. Stir it up? Yup!
Those slavery movies never seem to do very well at the box office, do they?
Oh it did. I remember the stories.
Probably nothing like it would/will today, though.
Wasn’t then entire story determined to be basically made up?
I haven’t been to Monticello for a number of years. I am a 1st Cousin of President, many, many time removed (His grandfather is one of my many grand fathers). The nonsense that comes out of Monticello matches the propaganda from the White House,
I am certainly related to the children of Sally Hemmings as is President Thomas Jefferson, but the notion that Thomas Jefferson was their father is wild speculation and probably not true. Jefferson’s brother was the most likely suspect, but since he is not famous, he was rejected by the great slightly darkened skin tones amazing historians.
A son of Sally Hemmings, a son of Madison Hemmings is buried right here in the Leavenworth National Cemetery, but the great masters of the political correctness nonsense will not permit a DNA analysis. Such an analysis will not resolve the issue, but will certainly shed light upon it and therefore cannot be permitted.
Were white slave owners fornicating with young and buxom female slaves? No doubt, but if Jefferson was doing it with Sally Hemmings, why do we have none offspring of that liaison when they were both in Paris and not subject to prying eyes and open ears. Only after they both returned to Monticello did Hemmings present with child. Exactly who was in that woodpile, Hmmmm?
I would not bet against you, even with odds.
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Actually in this version everyone stays in Africa.
All the characters die in the end from AIDS, starvation, revolution and each other.
So will they show Haley plagiarizing the book?
In theory, a very good story
Of course, we know that in fact, its going to be an unwatchable PC, leftist barf-fest.
Would the US ambassador to France really be all that free from prying eyes? Sally Hemmings was 14 when she went to Paris and 16 when she left. Maybe Jefferson waited until she was older.
I agree that there's no ironclad proof the children were Jefferson's, but people may have gotten tired of picking this or that one of your other relatives and putting all the blame on him so as to spare Jefferson the embarrassment of illegitimate children.
When it turned out that the neither of the Carr brothers was the father of Sally's children, people were reluctant to go on playing the same game, to pick out some other relative who hadn't previously been a suspect just to preserve Jefferson's reputation.
Jefferson's brother was the likely father.
The film I saw was actually rather fair to both Thomas Jefferson and Ms. Hemmings. I guess we will never know the real story.
One thing I didn't know was that Jefferson was actually opposed to slavery. He inherited his slaves from his father, but under the law at that time, he could have been prosecuted if he tried to free his slaves. There are indications he was good to his slaves and his opposition to slavery is documented. He ultimately did free a couple of his slaves during his life and in his will he freed several others upon his death.
These are stories on the official Monticello website, but most have been corroborated by other sources.
When he was older, much older than most men are catting around. The point is that the DNA evidence shows that the father of at least some of her children was a Jefferson. But, neither the DNA evidence or the documents that survive resolve the issue.
You can chose whatever version you wish to believe, but some Liberal historian at Monticello who has a political agenda that motivates her conclusions is not the final word. I will give her credit for convincing most people to believe her story in spite of her version is, at best, one of the several viable explanations.
Any it turns out, Sally Hemmings offspring, at least some of them, are my cousins and I'm fine with that.
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