Posted on 02/19/2016 12:02:13 PM PST by rktman
In May, the History Channel will air its remake of Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of An American Family.
Unsurprisingly, the advertising for the broadcast fails to mention that Roots is a fake, and a fake of the first order.
First of all, the book upon which the successful mini-series was based was actually authored by Murray Fisher, Alex Haley's editor from Playboy magazine.
Secondly, Roots wasn't just ghost-written: it was plagiarized: In 1978, Judge Robert Ward concluded that Haley had stolen the idea for Roots from Harry Courlander, the white man who authored The African. Courlander charged Haley with having "copied [from his book] language, thoughts, attitudes, incidents, situations, plot and character."
In spite of having initially denied it, Haley ultimately acknowledged that he lifted from The African verbatim at least 81 passages.
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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.
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.
STOP copying Dan Rather's lines.
or Bill Cosby.
That, my FRiend, is the Prime Directive of the Left. You've skillfully distilled it down perfectly to its sick essence.
Remaking until it comes up original.
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.
Exactly right.
My wife thought the same thing a few months after we named Kizzy when she found out where the name came from.
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.
Revisionist revisionist history..
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.
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)
I chuckle when I recall the opening scene of two white men wearing tricorn hats and knickers throwing a net over Levar Burton.
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
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.
Certainly not. No African ever built a boat that could cross a pond, let alone an ocean.
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.
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