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Snoop Dogg lambasts Roots remake: 'I can't watch it'
The Guardian UK ^ | May 30, 2016

Posted on 05/30/2016 7:31:30 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

The remake of Roots has gained widespread critical acclaim – but not from Snoop Dogg, who posted a short video on Instagram on Monday criticising the show, and suggesting that African Americans should not watch it.

In the video, the rapper said that he was fed up with watching films and TV shows that depicted the abuse of black Americans. “12 Years a Slave, Roots, Underground, I can’t watch none of that shit,” Snoop Dogg said, also taking aim at the Steve McQueen-directed Oscar-winning film and the WGN TV series about slaves in Georgia escaping via an underground railroad, which was recently renewed for a second season.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 12yearsaslave; afroturf; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; enoughalready; historychannel; hollywood; moviereview; movies; redistribution; reparations; roots; slavery; snoopdogg; stevemcqueen; whiteprivilege
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To: dfwgator

Well of course you do.

It’s our monthly overdose of division.

How else will we be kept in a state of chaos, if we are not beat about the head and shoulders, periodically?


21 posted on 05/30/2016 7:58:23 PM PDT by Salamander (Disco bloodbath boogie fever...)
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To: lodi90
The last African born freed slave in the US died about 1930. In the lifetime of our parents/grandparents. Not so long ago.

We stopped importing slaves from Africa in 1805. So unless one of those slaves born in Africa was more than 125 years old in 1930, I think your statement may be false.

22 posted on 05/30/2016 8:00:05 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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To: Lazamataz
That Woodstock acid messed him up, though.


23 posted on 05/30/2016 8:02:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ClearCase_guy

The illegal slave trade existed up until the Civil War. There was a community down in Alabama I believe made up of Africans trafficked to the US just before the Civil War. Last one died about 1930.


24 posted on 05/30/2016 8:04:43 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Tax-chick
Good question. Why aren't there more good movies about successful black people?

Because, sadly, films like that don't make enough money. Which is too bad, really. I happen to like inspirational movies.
25 posted on 05/30/2016 8:09:56 PM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If you really follow Snoop, you will find a very conservative guy who really thinks about real issues. I have always liked his honesty. He can be a lot like a stoner version of Charles Barkley.


26 posted on 05/30/2016 8:12:31 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Wow, from Roots to 2016...the African-American has come a LONG way. Their upward mobility and success in the USA can be characterized by his own words:

I can’t watch none of that shit.

27 posted on 05/30/2016 8:21:30 PM PDT by Netz
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I watched the original "Roots"

Of course, at the time I didn't know it was a badly written piece of plagiarized fiction; it was presented as history rather than fantasy.

I would watch the remake if they gave the slaves light sabers to fight off the Galactic Master Empire.

28 posted on 05/30/2016 8:22:48 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: dfwgator

Slavery was ‘normal’ for most of human history, no matter what color your skin was. Almost every country on earth had slaves. There were multiple versions of it too, like indentured servants. America was the first country to do away with it.

Today it still exists openly in muslim dominated nations.


29 posted on 05/30/2016 8:24:21 PM PDT by bigtoona (The media, GOPe, dems, commie Pope, hate Trump. He is the destroyer we've been waiting for!)
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To: blackdog
If you really follow Snoop, you will find a very conservative guy who really thinks about real issues. I have always liked his honesty. He can be a lot like a stoner version of Charles Barkley.

He has coached his son's football team. Internet lists his Net worth: $120 million USD (2016).. Snoop is laughing all the way to the bank. Bob Marley got brain cancer from all that marijuana so Snoop should watch out.

30 posted on 05/30/2016 8:25:11 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: Lazamataz

31 posted on 05/30/2016 8:27:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Next, a series documenting a homosexual branch of Alex Haley’s African relatives:
Froots.


32 posted on 05/30/2016 8:27:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dennisw

Marley died of a malignant melanoma.


33 posted on 05/30/2016 8:28:22 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Like my husband says, thousands died in the Civil War fighting to free the slaves.


34 posted on 05/30/2016 8:28:53 PM PDT by murron
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To: Tax-chick

The only positive movie I’ve seen was the one about Dr. Ben Carson.


35 posted on 05/30/2016 8:30:16 PM PDT by murron
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To: Pharmboy

“The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life.” wikipedia

You are correct but the brain was involved


36 posted on 05/30/2016 8:31:57 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What happened to Snoop Lion? Did it go the way of Pdiddy?


37 posted on 05/30/2016 8:34:10 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Crucial

“Or he’s ashamed at how ridiculous the current generation’s complaints look compared to what their ancestors suffered.”

They don’t just “look” ridiculous. And I’d say that 100-120 years ago, there were black AND white slaves in America; they were working in factories making just barely enough to survive until they fell over dead or were injured, with zero hope of escape for them or their children. Compare and contrast THAT to today’s complaints about “not enough new parent leave”.


38 posted on 05/30/2016 8:43:55 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I like the Snoop Dog. Hollywood tries to make money off of white guilt. There are plenty of talented Americans around. They have tales to tell. I wish they would.


39 posted on 05/30/2016 8:44:40 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: bigtoona

“Slavery was ‘normal’ for most of human history, no matter what color your skin was.”

It kills me at how agast Europe is about the slavery in America’s past. Effectively slavery was “normal” in Europe until maybe 100 years ago. The upper class ran everything, owned everything, and no matter what you did or how hard you tried, without the right name or connections, all you or your descendants were going to get would be barely enough for survival - by design.


40 posted on 05/30/2016 8:48:36 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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