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.”
Blacks should stop wallowing in their historical victimhood and start celebrating the enormous victory of the civil rights era. We’ve all come a long way, baby.
Roots: the remake
Supporting translaves (i.e. born free, but self-identifying as slaves) in their quest for social justice (i.e. state slavery as opposed to long-gone private chattel slavery in America).
Who ever said: “Slaves dream not of freedom, but of becoming masters” was on to something. Unfortunately.
Watta world.
Don't know and care even less.
Didn't watch the first one and won't waste my time with this edition.
bkmk
What’s wrong with picking cotton
I like cotton
It wears well
It made my gg grandpa rich
It ain’t porn
Do you agree with his point that it’s still going on today?
I tend to agree with Snoop more often than not. He is a good dad and he is a smart guy.
Now, I don’t doubt that living in Compton in the 80’s and 90’s was tough. But my guess is that his experience in America is not mine.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3435326/posts
Already posted there, didn’t find it in search, oh well, different source...
I presume he watches “Empire” on Fox, then.
I tried.
It’s Dallas.
But instead of oil and white folks acting like spoiled idiots, it’s music and black folks acting like spoiled idiots.
If you are referring to the Arabic-Muslim practice of castrating African male slaves to serve as eunuch guards to the slave women harems...I agree.
[ If you are referring to the Arabic-Muslim practice of castrating African male slaves to serve as eunuch guards to the slave women harems...I agree. ]
Stumps instead of ROOTs, indeed!
Nope, thats why its just "kinda" agree.
Hey, Snoop. If slavery had not happened, where would you be now?
Working for the Chinese, digging blood diamonds, 2 miles underground?
Like Muhammad Ali said, “Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat.”
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