Posted on 05/18/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
HISTORY® premieres "Roots" on Memorial Day 2016, airing over four consecutive nights at 9 p.m. beginning Monday, May 30, it was announced today by Paul Buccieri, President of A&E and HISTORY. The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ultimately carry on their legacy despite hardship.
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When are the imagined and fictional Trayvon Martin and Michael “Gentle Giant” Brown mini series coming?
you can end any debate with any of the white guilt goons by saying-” I never owned any slaves, and you never picked any cotton .” Then just walk away.
Too bad the film won’t show the Democrat party involvement in the issue.
Haley not only lost a high-profile plagiarism suit against his work in “Roots, but any serious look into the Haley family’s genealogy has found — and I’m being generous — that large portions of what was sold as non-fiction cannot be verified.
“The only cotton you picked was the one out of a bottle of aspirin.”
Yep, it was a rehash of Harold Courlander's (currently a DWM) historic fiction The African that Haley presented as a bio of his family...
I'm sick of this anti-white racism. I already can't stand basketball, football, boxing, or any movie with a black racist in a leading role (that's about all of them these days).
What a phony that Alex Haley was. It sounds like he lied about everything. IIRC Haley died broke and the funeral home that handled his funeral was not paid.
Depending on who you talk to.
We were the last country to use slaves and the first to get rid of it.
Not to mention the fact that the first slave owner was black!
You are showing your age. They stopped putting cotton in pill bottles ages ago.
If’n only Massa had cut off ol kunte’s tallywhacker instead of his foot after he run off that one time we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. lol
Some brands still use cotton.
Alas, slavery is still rampant around the world. You don't see it overtly but it is still there.
Slavery’s still bad - AND slavery still exists... Odd how NO AMERICAN BLACK ORGANIZATIONS has been created in the last hundred years to abolish slavery in the modern world.
All that pity - and ONLY for themselves. Not admirable.
When are they going to do “white roots,” the story of the Irish indentured slaves?
They can call it: Potato
You better check the expiry date the next time you pop an aspirin. lol
Saw the original. Have zero plans to watch the latest rendition.
Stirring the pot, again.
Nope
Snikes?
Are you Australian?
;D
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