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 ‘Roots’ in the ‘70s. It was supposed to be a true story and I teared up when Kunte Kinte was stolen from his family. I read that the remake removed all the ‘good White people’. Knowing what I know now about the ‘history’ of Roots, I would never watch it. Sadly, the majority of Blacks in this country are so completely indoctrinated by Obama’s hatred for Whites, they will never be happy about anything. It didn’t have to be this way.
I wonder if he feels the same way about “Django, Unchained”.
**Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.**
Who cares what Snoop said via the guardian? Who? PALEEZE!
Dollars to donuts the Roots remake will be required watching in schools around the country.
Or George Carver Washington http://www.biography.com/people/george-washington-carver-9240299
We need a revival of movies honoring great people like the Curies, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, to name a few.
Re-run the story of Dr. Ben Carson too.
But LIBTARDS fear successful people who do it one their own.
Why did they decide to run it on Memorial Day? Red Tails was on and that’s fine, but Roots?...gimme a break!
You could add a few musicians to that list.
The Tuskegee Airmen really sucked at what they did.
Please don’t buy into their hype.
My grandparent was a slave of the empire of Japan and he was white and died in 2007...
“America was the first country to do away with it.”
No we weren’t, Russia beat us to it.
STOP. Think about what you are saying.
It was blacks who enslaved their own fellow blacks in Africa. Whites didn't do it. It was blacks who then sold their fellow man to the Muslim slave traders. Not whites.
There were thousands of black slave OWNERS here in this country. More than 3,000 in New Orleans alone. There were black slave breeders. They sold their own offspring into slavery.
Blacks have to take responsibility for their own failures and stop blaming everyone else. Whites who buy into the black victim role are part of the problem.
Would LOVE to see a bio on Marva Collins, black educator who created a prep school for black students and excelled at it.
Just a nudge to keep you well seated on your 'stool of repentance'.
My grandparent was a slave of the empire of Japan and he was white and died in 2007...
And? My grandfather took some Jap shrapnel in his leg to his grave.
Roots is about the African slave trade so your comparison is Apples & Oranges. But thanks for playing.
The point was that there were other people enslaved that post dated Africans. Sorry that appeared to have irritated you so much.
Where’d he get the steel souvenir? Granddad was captured on Corrigedor.
In college I read an essay written by a black female in the early 1900's. It was so full of joy that she was going to college and she was planning to become a teacher. She wrote of her grandparents who were born slaves and then became share croppers and of her parents who had only eighth grade educations but now owned a store.
She said for her grandparents, it was "get ready", for her parents it was "get set" and now for her it was "Go!"
She was under no illusion that it would be easy but she also had no doubt she would make it.
That essay was removed from the text a few years later.
Children of slaves, born on American plantations, were also slaves, up until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Didn’t have to have been born in Africa and imported here, or 125 years old in 1930.
That’s sad. Back in the day, we enjoyed stories about people who overcame hardships to succeed at something difficult. Now, I suppose we can’t have that because people who didn’t try as hard feel bad about themselves.
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