Posted on 05/30/2016 11:03:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
I vividly recall the original iteration of the TV miniseries Roots. It was January 1977, and I was 17. Like most young people that age, my life was rapidly growing independent of my parents, who were increasingly consumed by the vagaries of their workplaces.
Yet, when the series debuted, it was must-see TV in the Johnson household. We stopped what we were doing and watched it together and enthusiastically each night. We even cheered during the show, notable since we were often too darned middle class to cheer while watching football games on TV.
The miniseries cleaned up during awards season: 37 Grammy nominations (nine wins) and a Golden Globe. The Alex Haley historical novel, upon which the TV series was based, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
It was also an unprecedented ratings success; all eight episodes rank among the 100 most-watched TV shows of all time. Four rank in the top 30 and the finale, almost 40 years later, still ranks as the third most-watched TV show ever. There were sequels and spinoffs, but for the last quarter century the phenomenon has been dormant.
That will end Monday when a remake of the classic series premieres on the History Channel (with simulcasts on sister networks Lifetime and A&E). It will run for four nights and, like the original, it features a star-studded cast including Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anika Noni Rose and Anna Paquin
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the producers wish to make money with a blockbuster in the nigflic genre
And I assume the "but" relates to the liberal eye-watering horse crap that says we should all watch it to make sure we do not forget the horrors of slavery, and that all us nasty white folks should go into a room and flagellate ourselves, in hopes of purging the sin of white privilege...and so, neither will I watch the stupid pap, nor will I read the remainder of this article.
I'm fed up with this racial crap.
If I wasn't a bigot before now, this stupid crap will certainly put me on the path.
I'm tired of being blamed for every ill that has befallen the black race.
Enough is enough.
Take some damned responsibility for your own selves.
Who’s gonna do the O.J. Simpson character?
Obama maybe??
And it’s going to be crap.
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IMHO the original was not much better. I know a lot of people really love it, and Alex Haley could certainly write, and told some good stories in the novel. However, I’ve read something on a thread recently somewhere that he did not really find Kunta Kinte, but made it up. It’s ok, since it is a novel, but some look at the movie as if it were a documentary. I do not believe it is in any way that accurate.
All I remember about the original Roots is six white guys walking into a village about a hundred feet from the seashore; they brandish their flintlock muskets, take three hundred able bodied African men prisoner, and then march them back to the shore to be loaded onto the slave ship.
I mean that’s how slavery happened, isn’t it?
Chicken George will do internet videos for Trump.
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Seriously? You know this?
Alex Haley wrote another best-selling historical novel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
“I ain’t watching that shit, and I advise you motherf-—ers as real n— like myself; f— them television shows,” Snoop said. “Let’s create our own shit based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. F— that old shit.”
should have been titled ‘Ruts’.
They seriously didn’t have internet before the civil war. You know.
“I would love to see a mini-series on Charles Martel.”
I’m sure there’s tremendous support in Hollywood for making a mini-series on a Frankish war leader who stopped a Muslim invasion of Europe.
Oh, wait.
The race has come a long way. And now, today, thanks to Obammy, it’s going back the other way.
Alex Haley’s pilgrimage to west Africa to rediscover his own roots didn’t go too well, IIRC.
The native Africans not only regarded him as the descendant of slaves, but polluted with white blood as well.
When will America have a ‘Black History’ year?
Perhaps a ‘Black History’ decade!
When he went to the Gambia and found a griot whose narrative told of the disappearance of Kunta Kinte from his village, it seemed like a marvelous accomplishment...but some have questioned that part of it, arguing that maybe the griot had heard Haley's family lore and modified his narrative to create a match with Haley's story.
“Gotta “Keep Hate Alive” as Jesse Jackson so often reminds us.”
That’s what this one is about.
Not if she promises them reparations leading into the final stretch of the election.
Actually there are no questions. Haley found nothing, the entire story is fiction, there was no Kunta Kinte, not only was it all lies, it’s plagiarized.
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