Posted on 05/31/2016 9:33:28 AM PDT by Paradox
Rapper Snoop Dogg will not be watching the remake of the miniseries “Roots,” and is calling on others to follow his lead.
In a profanity-filled video on Instagram, the 44-year-old rap star and actor slammed the History Channel’s remake of the landmark 1977 miniseries about slavery, which began airing Monday.
“I’m sick of this s—. How the f— are they going to put ‘Roots’ on, on Memorial Day?” he said in the video posted Monday. “They going to just to keep beating that s— into our heads about how they did us, huh?”
Starting the video by saying “No disrespect,” Snoop Dogg said he cannot watch any more movies about slavery, calling out the entertainment industry for continuing to put out films and shows with the theme.
“I don’t understand America. They just want to keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But guess what? We’re taking the same abuse,” he said. “Think about that part,” he added, criticizing “Roots,” WGN’s “Underground” and 2014’s Oscar winning film, “12 Years A Slave.”
He asked when a series would be created “about the success that black folks is having.” He concluded by saying he would not be watching the History Channel series and called on others to do the same.
“Let’s create our own s— based on today,” he said. “How we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real.”
Guess the pot hasn’t killed all of his brain cells, yet.
Somehow Snoop has said the most intelligent thing about continued enslavement of the black community that we have heard in popular culture in years. Good for him. Let’s focus on the future and opportunity for all, not rehashing centuries old problems that no living person endured nor inflicted.
There. Fixed it.
Too many black folk have too much at stake to see the light so they won’t.
Fo shizzle!
There is a show about successful black people. It’s called Empire. I’ve never seen it but from what I understand it’s about a music company. And it has a lot of guns and drugs and gangs and violence.
I boycotted the reboot last evening, to vicariously experience the Rays losing to the Royals, with Erasmo Ramirez blowing his first hold of the season. Watching Kunta Kinte wouldn’t have been any better, I think.
Did he point out the fact that Roots is a fictional novel based on a Harry Courlander’s fictional book “The African”.
Courlander later sued Haley and was awarded ~$600K.
That has to be the first time “fo’ shizzle” has shown up on FR. (I think I will let another complete the bowdlerized phrase.)
From Wiki: Following the success of the novel and the miniseries, Haley was accused by two authors of plagiarism of their novels. Harold Courlander successfully asserted that Roots was plagiarized from his novel The African, published in 1967. The resulting trial ended with an out-of-court settlement and Haley’s admission that some passages within Roots had been copied from Courlander’s work; he said it was unintentional. In a later interview with BBC Television, the presiding judge in Courlander’s lawsuit against Haley said, “Alex Haley perpetrated a hoax on the public.”
The book was originally described as “faction” and was sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. Haley spent the last chapter of the book describing his research in archives and libraries to support his family’s oral tradition with written records. However, historians and genealogists have found critical errors in his research work. Most of the novel is either unsupported or contradicted by the available evidence.
I’m with him boycott-wise
Us? When was the last time you picked cotton, Snoop?
All of these redos and remakes show how utterly bankrupt hollywood is.
Did you know they’re releasing a remake of Ben Hur this Summer? All of these remakes are going to fail (see Ghostbusters). Nobody likes them. The younger generation doesn’t care and the it pisses the older generations off.
All this pushback against the Left Looney indoctrination is really starting to give me true hope.
He’s gotta point, I definitely agree with.......................
Yep, it shows real life................/s
Nope, I’ve seen it a number of times in posts.....................may have even used it myself once or twice...................
Ben-Hur, who said to his sister, Ben-Him, 'Wanna switch?'
Ben-Him, who said to Ben-Hur, 'If I did, I'd be Ben-Gay.'
Never got a dinner.
-Red Buttons
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