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TV Review: Did We Really Need a Roots Remake? No, but …
The Root ^ | May 30, 2016 | MARTIN JOHNSON

Posted on 05/30/2016 11:03:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: vladimir998
Maybe Hollywood will make a mini-series on Charles Martel that makes him into an ignorant redneck bigot who succeeded in stopping the spread of a superior civilization and causing Europe to endure centuries of darkness.

If they want to make Merovingian Gaul look bad, there is plenty of material...Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks to begin with.

41 posted on 05/30/2016 11:56:37 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: discostu

I had not heard it was that extreme. In other words, Haley was a black Hillary Clinton (without the dead bodies)?


42 posted on 05/30/2016 11:58:08 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: HomerBohn
When will America have a ‘Black History’ year? Perhaps a ‘Black History’ decade!

The cultural revolution means never being able to learn about dead white males again.

43 posted on 05/30/2016 11:58:08 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hollywood is intellectully bankrupt—it is reduced to making the same movies over and over and over again.


44 posted on 05/30/2016 11:59:52 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Verginius Rufus

He sold a bill of goods. Got sued a couple of times over it.


45 posted on 05/30/2016 12:00:08 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: laweeks

“But here we go again. Crappy history, lots of white guilt, and we get to go over it all again.”
___________

After this one runs, I assume we’ll get another round of:

1. “ Why the Kennedys All Deserve Canonization”
2. “Healing the Nation Demands a Nixon Impeachment”, or “Better Late Than Never”;
3. “Necklacing for Justice”, the Mandela story;
4. “The Black Panther Food Giveaway” (marred only slightly by dozens
of purported murders;
5. “Was Malcolm the Frst Gen Xer?”
6. “Cesar Chavez, the musical”;
7. “Have You No Shame?”, or “How McCarthy Harassed Communists Who Were Only Joking About Subverting America”;
8. The Village of Mai Lai, 50 years Later”, aka “Scars Still Linger as Village Tries To Cope”.

The left never sleeps.


46 posted on 05/30/2016 12:03:02 PM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Timpanagos1
It is not and should not be an objective of the producers to bring the country together or tear it apart, the goal is to be profitable.

Oh, I agree. But as in all things, some self-restraint wouldn't hurt. Suppose you were a publisher, and I came to you with a draft of a book. It's an excellent chemistry text, so good you're sure to make a profit.

But there is a section on explosives, what they are and how they can made from common materials. I would hope that you, as the publisher, would do some editing there.

47 posted on 05/30/2016 12:05:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: a fool in paradise
C-SPAN 3 has some good history programs on the weekends, but this year they seem to be under the impression that every month is February.

This morning there was an interesting talk held at the Woodrow Wilson Center about Capt. John Birch, the namesake of the John Birch Society, by someone who recently published a book about the man. Fascinating person--went to China in 1940 as a Baptist missionary, joined the US Army after Pearl Harbor, and was killed in August 1945 a few days after the news that Japan had surrendered, by some Communist Chinese troops.

In Sept. or Oct. 1950 (early in the Korean War, before the Chinese Communist entry), Sen. William Knowland of California made a speech in the Senate praising John Birch. Three years later Robert Welch happened to read the speech and went and met Birch's parents in Georgia and got Birch's mother's approval to publicize John Birch's story. It was 5 years later that he started the society.

48 posted on 05/30/2016 12:07:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MinorityRepublican

GAG.


49 posted on 05/30/2016 12:07:16 PM PDT by Stentor ("Hiding behind 'conservative' while America goes down the toilet is not acceptable anymore." LS)
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To: MinorityRepublican

1st one wasn’t black enough.


50 posted on 05/30/2016 12:12:16 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: BenLurkin

Sorry, I am not understanding your answer. It’s funny, - definitely no internet back then - but I truly wanted to know if you meant that the guy playing Chicken George was going to work for the Trump campaign.


51 posted on 05/30/2016 12:16:37 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ve never seen it. Never will.


52 posted on 05/30/2016 12:19:19 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: Verginius Rufus

How interesting! It sounds very plausible that someone who heard of his search would indeed seek to satisfy it somehow. Guess we’ll never really know.

I had a music teacher that swooned over the series and was buying into all the white guilt. I watched parts of it - only because she encouraged me to - but I really didn’t have the time to devote to it, and never regretted missing most of it.


53 posted on 05/30/2016 12:19:42 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: discostu

Yet Maryland just HAD to put a plaque on Annapolis wharf that this African dude arrived here blah blah blah. As if that is truly significant history anyway, if it were real.


54 posted on 05/30/2016 12:29:53 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: TEXOKIE

No sir, that is not what I meant.


55 posted on 05/30/2016 12:32:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Country is already riled up. Get ready for a long, hot summer.


56 posted on 05/30/2016 12:35:01 PM PDT by TopDog2 (Onward Christian soldiers)
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To: Leaning Right

Not to mention that it is over exaggerated hype. This Roots movie will have no good lasting value. Pure junk would be my guess.


57 posted on 05/30/2016 12:37:36 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: laweeks

I would like to see a movie made where the black servants and the white master got along and had happy lives. Some Balance would be nice. Hardly any slaves had their feet cut off. Just a guess.


58 posted on 05/30/2016 12:41:36 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: a fool in paradise

You really think that b.s. Could make it through any congress?


59 posted on 05/30/2016 12:51:49 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gotta keep stoking the flames. Obama has obliterated race relations. The Media loves the riots and looting of black mobs. They’ll keep it going as long as possible. Racial strife is very profitable.


60 posted on 05/30/2016 12:54:04 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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