"Roots" Remake

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Makes me wonder why someone who has stated they have no intention of watching the show is still participating in the thread ABOUT THE SHOW????

 

[Gracie]

Of course it makes everyone angry. But would you be as upset and angered if they did a movie about the Spanish Inquisition? How about Irish laborers sold into indentured servitude? Or prisoners beaten, starved, tortured, then dumped on an island called Australia to fend for themselves? The holocaust?

Pick yer poison, dude. It happened. And it is STILL happening the world over. Someone in your neighborhood is probably a child molester....or maybe in to girl slave trade....Boko Haram...stonings in the ME...christians in the arena for entertainment.....get my drift yet? Shit happened and shit will continue to happen. Have ANY of us learned from the past? Nope. But you go ahead and have anger at something you had no part of, nor your family were involved in, etc etc etc.

^^^Too shallow to understand what I wrote.

Pity

Too stupid to understand what I wrote. ^^^^
Double pity.

 

[Gracie]

Makes me wonder why someone who has stated they have no intention of watching the show is still participating in the thread ABOUT THE SHOW????

Because I can and it seems to piss you off. I aim to please.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Makes me wonder why someone who has stated they have no intention of watching the show is still participating in the thread ABOUT THE SHOW????

Because I can and it seems to piss you off. I aim to please.

A well practiced troll. Congrats

 

[ClosedCaption]

What did Gracie not like about it? The fact that Africans had University's? The Muslim religion? Slavery in general?

I watched the Revenant this weekend too. What's the diff?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

What did Gracie not like about it? The fact that Africans had University's? The Muslim religion? Slavery in general?

I watched the Revenant this weekend too. What's the diff?

That movie was overrated

 

[Tilly]

I watched the first one on its original broadcast. I haven't seen it since, but I seem to recall it being quite good.

This, I suspect, will be significantly politically twisted given the current atmosphere and the fact that it is an election year. I wonder if it will mention that the Democrats were so pro-slavery that they started a war?

'Roots' Reborn: How a Slave Saga Was Remade for the Black Lives Matter Era

It's on tonight. History channel

I remember I was 1 of 3 whites in an all black school in the 70s and they played it in school and I got beat up.

Blacks say roots makes them both angry and proud. It should

It should make everyone angry. There is no human being that deserved to be treated in such horrific ways.
Some people can face history and feel pain or pity for the mistakes of the past. Some dwell in it & yet others choose to ignore it. Myself it just shows me how deprived we can be when left to our own greed.

I think most people already understand the horrors of the slave trade and are repulsed by it. Clearly we have learned from it too since we don't enslave people anymore. However, rehashing it over and over just seems like reopening an old wound unnecessarily now and that doing such is not a positive step toward social cohesion. It is just likely to fuel resentment or worse, IMHO.