Posted on 04/06/2016 7:52:35 AM PDT by rktman
LeVar Burton was initially skeptical of remaking "Roots," the groundbreaking miniseries that launched his career in 1977.
But Burton, who played a young Kunta Kinte, overcame those concerns after seeing the educational value in helping the new generation of Americans better relate to the plight of slaves and African-American history, particularly after the election of Barack Obama, the United States' first black president.
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I don’t think I could deal with a rap-artist wannabee that looks just like 0bama as Kunta Kinte.
Time for a pool: will the remake feature sharks following the slave ship across the Atlantic?
Already done and ready to air on some channel on memorial day or veterans day or 4th of july or labor day or something. Not interested except to see how it cranks up the evil rhetoric level. (I feel sooooooo guilty. NOT!)
How about doing a movie on the modern slave trade being carried on by guys named Muhammed Skyhook Ackbar out of Yemen or Somalia or Baghdaddi’s Isis clan doing it in whatever hell holes they occupy.
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There was so many sharks you coulda walked here on their backs.
Some years ago I read Thomas Pakenham’s book, “The Scramble for Africa 1876 to 1912”.
One of the things I understood, which people would find objection with, is that if the White Man, i.e., the Europeans, had not set foot there, Africa would have remained the primitive tribal place it always was. In some ways it still is very tribal.
Slavery is and was truly an abomination, yet if Black Slavery to the United States had never happened then the Black population of this country would probably be no more than 1 to 3% if that.
If you look at Europe as a whole where natural migration has happened the total Black population there is very low maybe only 5%, if that. You can check the CIA World Almanac on that.
The whole point being is that there would have, absent the slave trade, little natural migration to the U.S. from Africa as few, if any, could have afforded to get here.
I would like to see that public debate held and the views put forth. By the way the one ugly thing never reported by the MSM is that slavery still exists in one form or another in East Africa, where is the outrage????????
If Christians ain’t doin’ it, it don’t count.
Won’t be watching this time around. How can they improve on a false story.
I wonder if they will cover that, in 1653, Anthony Johnson, a black man, was the first to enslave John Casor, another black man? Slavery didn’t exist in the colonies until that court case.
Wondering if they’ll have muslim slave owners in this version. Afterall, Obama keeps telling us about all the accomplishments they made in the history of this country.
Agreed. And, also tell the story of how many were sold into slavery in the Arab/Islamic countries. Which, by most estimates, is conservatively 10 times the number that were sent to the West, of which, most went into the West Indies.
They would have to add even more atrocious deprivation and beatings to be relevant to modern sensitivities.
Plus the addition of the N-word en masse.
If I recall correctly, the "plagiarism" consisted of scores of "lifted" passages - not verbatim, but in spirit.
Regards,
Will Morgan Freeman play Fiddler? Or will they wheel out Lou Gossett, Jr. again. I like Gossett, but there aren’t as many good black actors nowadays. Can’t imagine who will be cast in all the roles.
Slavery is rampamt in many partsof the world.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/modern-day-slave-trade
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LOL! It’s the thought that counts. Yeah, the entire story wasn’t pilfered but more than enough to make haley’s claims suspect.
Whoopi says it’s a term of endearment. Wonder if she’ll have the role of a cow or mule.
Yes and where is the Outrage and determination to do anything about it????????????
We watched “Roots” because it was a novelty, breaking new ground just like “Birth of a Nation” had done decades before. It turned out that both productions were full of crap and failed to sway opinion in the way the producers had hoped.
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