[WestVirginiaRebel]

To its credit, Roots was like a who's who of black actors at that time and I thought that was kind of cool (and I was a white kid living in Thousand Oaks, California at the time!)

It also allowed LeVar Burton to go from being a slave to chief engineer of the Enterprise. Only in America!

[dfwgator]

To its credit, Roots was like a who's who of black actors at that time

Including one future murderer, OJ Simpson.