“Roots” was a lie from start to finish. Author Alex Haley was a fraud. This movie should NOT be remade. But, if you want to incite a race war and cement black racism, I guess you’ll have to, That’s what I read in Burton’s message.
Fiddler: Christmas is when White folk give each other stuff don't neither of em need.
I don’t think I could deal with a rap-artist wannabee that looks just like 0bama as Kunta Kinte.
Time for a pool: will the remake feature sharks following the slave ship across the Atlantic?
How about doing a movie on the modern slave trade being carried on by guys named Muhammed Skyhook Ackbar out of Yemen or Somalia or Baghdaddi’s Isis clan doing it in whatever hell holes they occupy.
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Some years ago I read Thomas Pakenham’s book, “The Scramble for Africa 1876 to 1912”.
One of the things I understood, which people would find objection with, is that if the White Man, i.e., the Europeans, had not set foot there, Africa would have remained the primitive tribal place it always was. In some ways it still is very tribal.
Slavery is and was truly an abomination, yet if Black Slavery to the United States had never happened then the Black population of this country would probably be no more than 1 to 3% if that.
If you look at Europe as a whole where natural migration has happened the total Black population there is very low maybe only 5%, if that. You can check the CIA World Almanac on that.
The whole point being is that there would have, absent the slave trade, little natural migration to the U.S. from Africa as few, if any, could have afforded to get here.
I would like to see that public debate held and the views put forth. By the way the one ugly thing never reported by the MSM is that slavery still exists in one form or another in East Africa, where is the outrage????????
Won’t be watching this time around. How can they improve on a false story.
I wonder if they will cover that, in 1653, Anthony Johnson, a black man, was the first to enslave John Casor, another black man? Slavery didn’t exist in the colonies until that court case.
They would have to add even more atrocious deprivation and beatings to be relevant to modern sensitivities.
Plus the addition of the N-word en masse.
If I recall correctly, the "plagiarism" consisted of scores of "lifted" passages - not verbatim, but in spirit.
Regards,
We watched “Roots” because it was a novelty, breaking new ground just like “Birth of a Nation” had done decades before. It turned out that both productions were full of crap and failed to sway opinion in the way the producers had hoped.
Will they have a scene where a slave is runnin from the massuh who raises a gun and he takes aim, the slave drops to his knees and yells “hands up, don’t shoot”?
it was boring way back then and will 100 times worst now
Smells like LaVar is in need of a job.
This time, let’s be honest and not claim it’s a true story.
I saw quite a bit of the series. I can't recall seeing any episodes showing the black African chieftains selling slaves or the black and Indian American slave owners.
Slavery was awful, but twisting the truth is never good.
Put the visor back on, Geordie.
I have no problem with Hollyweird remaking it. It just needs to be repeatedly pointed out (disclaimers coming out of each commercial break) that the story is fictional; that the original novel was a plagiarized piece of fantasy and was not a true historical novel.
Do we need any more proof that there are no new ideas in Hollyweird?