Roots did not help race relations at all...I am in the Deep South and i can tell you that blacks became more bitter and less friendly after that series played out....I can honestly say that it has never been the same since the airing of it...I was young and remember the vitriol spouted out after it... We were just kids and innocent....it created suc a division...some folks just don’t understand how this keeps us at each other’s throats....I wish it would stop...I’m too old for it now.
When the original ROOTS first played on TV, there was an upsurge in vandalism by blacks in Hot Springs, Arkansas.