Roots’ on the History Channel: Remaking a Lie (Roots ghost-written and plagiarized)

Frontpagemag ^ | 05/29/2015 | Jack Kerwick

[Kid Shelleen]

In 1976, Alex Haley authored the nearly 1,000 page, Roots: The Saga of An American Family. The following year, ABC aired a mini-series that was based upon it. Both book and television show proved to be tremendous successes. Now, the History Channel has officially announced that it will remake Root There’s only one problem: Roots is a fake and Haley is a fraud—and a fraud on multiple levels.

[driftless2]

I vaguely recall the first episode. I remember Gary Anderson as one of the slavers and they captured poor Kunta in some sort of net with Anderson gleefully smiling at the capture of his new trophy.

It was only later that I read that the great majority of white slavers never went inland and relied on black chieftains to deliver the slaves to them. But of course, that wouldn't have made as much an interesting "story" to show blacks complicit in the slave trade.