[fwdude]

I was in high school when this first aired, and our leftist teachers fell all over themselves praising it. They were the precursors to white guilt complex.

[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.