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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I watched the first 30 minutes of the remake. It sucked. At least the original was entertaining.
Wonderfully concise summarization of the matter! Thanks!
Regards,
I would love to see a series of shows about blacks who have had a real impact on American life, and that would include adding some names that I don’t agree with politically.
I think it would give a lot of young black men and women some real role models to look up to and give them a feeling of connection to American History.
A short weekly series about a different figure each episode.
- Crispus Attucks
- Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Tubman
- Booker T. Washington
- George Washington Carver
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Langston Hughes
- Thurgood Marshall
- Jackie Robinson
- Malcolm X
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Thomas Sowell
- Walter Williams
- Clarence Thomas
- Oprah Winfrey
- The Tuskegee Airmen
That would be a good start and if it were to be done as biography instead of having a political slant, it would be a very interesting series and maybe start conversations about how integrated blacks are in our history.
After that I would shudder to think what they would make with the life of Thomas Sowell.
Add Zora Neale Hurston to that list.
I get where he’s coming from. Hollywood is stuck in the paradigm portraying black people as long suffering powerless victims. Snoop for better or worse in terms of the content of what he’s talking about is a person who had taken the freedom and opportunity that he enjoys here in America, and done something with it. He’s not sitting there wallowing in the pain that was suffered centuries ago by people he’s never met, and is encouraging other blacks to avoid the same.
Remember Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
Slaves wanted to work for themselves, marry, have children, raise them to be strong people. They all dreamed of it. Few got to do it.
Today, young African Americans are not paired up and put together for hopes of breeding slave stock. Today, young African Americans could freely hold back from unprotected sex and work hard to reach a point where they could afford to raise their children to be strong people.
Translaves. Born free, self-identifying as slaves.
“Transslaves Lives Matter.”
“Snoop Dogg concluded that he would not watch Roots, and advised his fans to avoid it”
I’ll take his advice.
There was “Lean on Me” about the school principal whose tough love turned around a failing school. Libs of course attacked the guy as an Uncle Tom.
A new kind of snowflake?
Good grief, man! That story is 100% FREAKING FICTION!!
The victims were 100% illiterate; for many generations!
Fixed it for ya.
They've actually gone backwards. Can't read cursive?
WTF?
That is a secondary metastasis from the primary melanoma.Just like spread of a primary to the bone is not called ‘bone cancer’ this is not called brain cancer. Those terms are saved for primary cancers of the bone and brain, respectively. And it has nothing to do with marijuana as you also said.
The first sentence of your statement is true. Likewise, the second, and third sentences. The final sentence, however, is not. What the US ended up doing was fighting a bloody war over the issue, a dubious 'achievement' we share with Haiti which likewise did the same. No, the first country to do away with it entirely was Britain, and even that was accomplished in stages, starting with the closure of the trans-Atlantic routes in the early 1800's, until 1848, when the last vestiges of chattel slavery were outlawed.
As to your addendum about Muslim dominated nations, that is mostly true, although many of those nations have legal prohibitions, the institution still exists, with authorities turning a blind eye to its existence...
the infowarrior
Great observation.
That's the problem. There are so many great, true stories about black people in the United States, but producers aren't interested in the truth.
LOL Good one.
Snoopy fired once, then he fired twice....
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