[SJSAMPLE]

“It was based on Haley’s novel, a Pulitzer Prize-winner that mixed accounts of his own ancestors with fiction.”

They’re finally adding in the “fiction” part, after decades of lies. Now to remove “mixed accounts of his own ancestors”.

[ansel12]

I remember the hoopla, but I never saw the series, I wonder how many of the white deaths and rapes at the hands of blacks result from that kind of message being constantly hammered into their consciousness over the last 45 years.

[UCANSEE2]

IIRC, Alex Haley stole the idea from another author who had written a book about Jewish families escaping the slavery of the Nazis.

He then changed everything to match some fictional fantasy he had concocted about America's early history and slavery.

I don't believe that there is ONE SINGLE FACTUAL event, nor person, in the entire book, or movie.