Dr. Thomas Sowell has some things to say on this matter about the original series “Roots”.
Basically, of all the slavery that has taken place in history, the “Roots” version is the one that the world thinks of when it thinks “Slavery”.
It was neither the most common form, nor the most brutal overall. But it served a purpose for the author and producers.
Of COURSE I made that name up, and if it happens it will the fastest of sound bytes .... but it'll be there ....
you heard it here, from me ... first.
Otherwise; people may "forget" that there were black slaves at one time and start to think that success is achievable for anyone who wants to pursue it. They are just doing their part to ensure the grievance industry continues to thrive.
I remember when Haley’s fraud was being exposed.
The general liberal viewpoint was that “The story itself was too important for people be concerned with fact”.
The usual “Agenda Matters: truth doesn’t” viewpoint of the left.
Blacks beholden en masse to the DemoRat Party— the modern saga of the slavery kept in hushed, blind denial.
White slavers had no protection against tropical diseases and no knowledge of the geography of Africa for centuries. They simply traded guns and other things for their slaves.
And to my incandescent and nearly incoherent rage, a monument to Haley and Kunte Kinte stands at harbor side in Annapolis Md. Garbage put there by Haley’s scheming hustling relatives and liberal white guilted pansies
not only was the book a fraud, but it’s perpetuated a false narrative about slavery for nearly 40 years. as i recall, the protagonist was out in the jungle one day when minding his own business when he was set upon by evil white slave traders from a nearby ship and captured, thus becoming a slave.
that’s an overwhelmingly false narrative. the vast majority of african slaves were sold into slavery by other africans as the result of tribal conflicts, to settle a debt, or captured by north african and arab MUSLIMS raiders from the north. north african and arab MUSLIMS have always been in control of the african slave trade and they still are to this very day!
the notion that somehow only western europeans should feel unique shame for what a small percentage of their ancestors did to africans they purchased from MUSLIMS is baloney. lots of western europeans were pressed into slavery themselves as they traveled the mediterranean, never to taste freedom again. in fact, MUSLIMS were trading slaves in africa for 600-700 years before western europeans first got involved.
but of course this fact was never mentioned in Roots, was it?
Unexpected?
After the showing of ROOTS II, blacks in Hot Springs Arkansas went on a mini-riot breaking windows and such.
Instead of a bull**** remake, they should have done a zombie or Kwanzaa version. The Roots Zombies!
Thanks for the info, I was unaware of it.
The History Channel is a joke.
Their special about Bigfoot sailing the Flying Dutchman into the Bermuda Triangle and finding Atlantis did it for me.
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I’ll bet the remake ends with a little blackish boy being born in Hawaii to loving hipster multi-culti parents, who lift him up and say, “One day our lil’ black baby could be presidint of these heah Unita Ma States. Good Lawd willin’ yas sihr!”
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