[laweeks]

The original Roots series was a disgrace and terrible history, conveniently omitting the sale of Negroes by their own people to the slave traders. That alone made the series, to me a complete joke. And if I'm not wrong, the Roots saga was plagiarized by the phony who wrote it.

It would be nice if this perpetual "white guilt" crap would stop. I never owned a slave, and don't know anyone who did. I also don't know of any Negroes who were slaves.

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

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Never watched it..

[elcid1970]

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?

[Verginius Rufus]

I recall reading somewhere that people in the part of Africa where Kunta Kinte was born who saw Roots thought that the portrayal of Africa was ludicrously inaccurate.

Alex Haley wrote another best-selling historical novel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

[HomerBohn]

should have been titled ‘Ruts’.

[The Continental Op]

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

[Carry me back]

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.

[MoochPooch]

The original Roots series was a disgrace and terrible history, conveniently omitting the sale of Negroes by their own people to the slave traders. That alone made the series, to me a complete joke. And if I'm not wrong, the Roots saga was plagiarized by the phony who wrote it.

I saw only part of the original series but found it plain cheesy. Whether or not the story was true, it was so slanted -- all the whites were mean & evil, all the blacks virtuous. The script seemed very stilted. Typical 1970s schmaltz.