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  • Woman forced to watch 'Roots' to 'understand her racism,' Cedar Rapids police say

    02/18/2020 6:11:49 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 50 replies
    The Gazette ^ | February 17, 2020 | Kat Russell
    A Cedar Rapids man who was arrested Monday is accused of holding a woman captive and forcing her to watch “Roots” — a nine-hour miniseries that chronicles author Alex Haley’s family line from the capture and enslavement of his ancestor Kunta Kinte to the liberation of Kinte’s descendants. Robert Lee Noye, 52, forced the woman to sit with him, at a residence in the 700 block of Second Avenue SW and watch the series “so she could better understand her racism,” according to a criminal complaint. When she tried to move, Noye told her to “remain seated and watch the...