Remaking Alex Haley’s Fake Roots(plagerized fiction)

frontpagemag.com ^ | 2/19/2016 | Jack Kerwick

[mjp]

There we have it. It doesn't matter that Haley was a fraud. Roots should be remade in order to reinforce the politically lucrative fiction of omnipresent White Racism and perpetual Black Victimhood.

In postmodernism there is no one single objective truth, so for libtards, it's the narrative that supports their agenda that counts and not the truth.

[Calvin Locke]

I was in HS too, when it first aired. I didn't like it then, and doubt the THC "re-make" fixed any thing.

Lots of "Event Miniseries" are flat-out boring, and "Roots", in my experience, began the hype-over-substance pull-the-wool over both the advertisers and audiences alike BS.

[SandRat]

It doesn’t matter if the narrative is true, only that it could be.

STOP copying Dan Rather's lines.

[SandRat]

It will be interesting to see which role O.J. Simpson will play in this version.

or Bill Cosby.

[fwdude]

It doesn’t matter if the narrative is true, only that it could be.

That, my FRiend, is the Prime Directive of the Left. You've skillfully distilled it down perfectly to its sick essence.

[onedoug]

Remaking until it comes up original.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I live in Annapolis Maryland and on the docks at the in or harbor is a memorial to Alex Halley and Kunta Kinta . I weep for Maryland.

[trisham]

Exactly right.

[zek157]

My wife thought the same thing a few months after we named Kizzy when she found out where the name came from.

[eddie willers]

I enjoyed Rich Man/Poor Man.

[fwdude]

One correction, I was at the end of junior high school when Roots was aired. I knew it was around that time, and we talked about it incessantly during my Freshman year. Just looked it up, and can’t believe an episode aired daily for a week!

I did like Shogun, with Richard Chamberlain (playing a sexually normal man, LOL!), and it was discussed for its presentation of Japanese culture in school as well.

[sheik yerbouty]

Revisionist revisionist history..

[driftless2]

Sure Alex Hailey was full of crap

Even the first episode which showed Kunte Kinte being kidnapped around his African vilage by white slavers was a huge lie. White slavers virtually never went inland. Too dangerous for a myriad of reasons including diseases and wild animals. It was far easier to buy them from black tribal chieftains on the coastline.

[eddie willers]

Even the first episode which showed Kunte Kinte being kidnapped around his African vilage by white slavers was a huge lie. White slavers virtually never went inland.

I saw some brief trailers of the new series (which I probably will not watch) and it appeared to me that they at least had the Muslims doing the actual capturing. Kind of shocked me and I'll be interested to see if they changed the original version that you and I remember to one more historically correct (at least in this respect)

[Oratam]

I chuckle when I recall the opening scene of two white men wearing tricorn hats and knickers throwing a net over Levar Burton.

[bert]

it is never remarked, but the people sent to the Americas as slaves were inferior Africans. They were not capable of developing to a point where their tribe/clan could resist the stronger more capable elements of the African society.

The reason they were enslaved is because they were not equal

[PeterPrinciple]

When I was in Africa as we drove through various villages, my interpreter would explain to me that “those people” used to be his ancestors slaves.

[Neoliberalnot]

Certainly not. No African ever built a boat that could cross a pond, let alone an ocean.

[Neoliberalnot]

Yeah, well how else were they to get Levar to work. Look at the millions of welfare slugs today and break it down by race.