[Dawntreader]

Very interesting. I hadn't realized that the story was supposed to have been an autobiography. I thought it was a piece of fiction...guess I wasn't wrong after all!

[goldstategop]

Liberal racism run riot. If a white author had written a fictional work about his ancestors while claiming it was fact and plagiarized and lifted entire passages from (with suitable changes) a black author, he would have been condemned and relegated to ignominy and eternal disgrace. His Pulitzer Prize? Forget about keeping it. The treatment of Alex Haley's historical hoax and the reverence the author is continued to be held in reveals the liberal double standard that holds blacks to a different standard than that to which whites are held. Why? Out of the guilt white liberal racists feel and the need to atone for it by making blacks feel good about themselves even if it doesn't serve justice let alone the truth. Sure Roots is riveting entertainment as long as one keeps in mind its fiction and its not really a genuine narrative of Haley's origins.