Uh, yeah, except for the actual returning to africa part. Even they know how bad it sucks over there so why would they actually go back and try to improve things? “Alex haley, please pick up the courtesy phone.” “Roots.” A fictional story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American_Family
From wiki:
Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was a personal friend of Haley, but years after his death Gates acknowledged doubts about the author’s claims. He said,
“Most of us feel it’s highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship. It was an important event because it captured everyone’s imagination.”[28]
Gates later was the host of African American Lives, a TV series that relied on research by historians and genealogists, but also on DNA testing, to reveal to prominent American figures facts of their family histories.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates