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Its a tv show about heroic white folks keeping black people from starving before there was welfare. Awe inspiring stuff.What the fuck is Roots? Fucking old people..
Is it any wonder many Americans are clueless of history or worse...enraged by lies presented as history. I did not watch it then and will not now. I have no interest in watching lies that inflame passions.Link that states that as proven fact?
To prove fiction is fact is to prove a negative, which is not possible. Here is one critique of Haley's effort: Alex Haley's Fraudulent Roots
If you wish to go deeper into the criticism, just Google "Roots, the book."
Its a tv show about heroic white folks keeping black people from starving before there was welfare. Awe inspiring stuff.What the fuck is Roots? Fucking old people..
I would rather watch Hillary porn than such a pathetic show
-Geaux
God bless you for everything that you do !Its a tv show about heroic white folks keeping black people from starving before there was welfare. Awe inspiring stuff.What the fuck is Roots? Fucking old people..
Us white people are awesome.
It's a movie about white Democrats owning black people. Nothing has changed, they still own them.What the fuck is Roots? Fucking old people..
Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
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Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
Geeze Limey how can you always be wrong?Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
(Close)
Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
So I am not sure what point you are making.
The "Roots" film deals specifically with the American experience in which the White race has to shoulder the blame. If there was no market for slavery then there would be no slavery.
The whole slavery thing, and its aftermath, still affects America to this day.
Errm, thats what I said.Geeze Limey how can you always be wrong?Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
(Close)
Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
So I am not sure what point you are making.
The "Roots" film deals specifically with the American experience in which the White race has to shoulder the blame. If there was no market for slavery then there would be no slavery.
The whole slavery thing, and its aftermath, still affects America to this day.
Slavery was NEVER a white man's preserve.
It has always been a man's preserve...race has nothing to do with it.
Then clearly you know nothing about the history of slavery. Nearly every people and civilization throughout history employed slavery.Errm, thats what I said.Geeze Limey how can you always be wrong?Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
(Close)
Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
So I am not sure what point you are making.
The "Roots" film deals specifically with the American experience in which the White race has to shoulder the blame. If there was no market for slavery then there would be no slavery.
The whole slavery thing, and its aftermath, still affects America to this day.
Slavery was NEVER a white man's preserve.
It has always been a man's preserve...race has nothing to do with it.
Have you read my comment.Then clearly you know nothing about the history of slavery. Nearly every people and civilization throughout history employed slavery.Errm, thats what I said.Geeze Limey how can you always be wrong?Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.Roots was the major TV show of all time.Everybody watched it when I was in school. I saw it again a year or two back and it still stands up.
I think quibbles with the accuracy of the characters is missing the point. Even if Kinte was a total fabrication I am guessing that there might have been one or two more africans who were captured and sold as slaves.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
(Close)
Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
So I am not sure what point you are making.
The "Roots" film deals specifically with the American experience in which the White race has to shoulder the blame. If there was no market for slavery then there would be no slavery.
The whole slavery thing, and its aftermath, still affects America to this day.
Slavery was NEVER a white man's preserve.
It has always been a man's preserve...race has nothing to do with it.
If only it were possible to educate a leftist Limey.
He probably IS related to old Kunta.
Please accept my apologies...you must forgive me as I naturally assumed you have history all screwed up.Have you read my comment.Then clearly you know nothing about the history of slavery. Nearly every people and civilization throughout history employed slavery.Errm, thats what I said.Geeze Limey how can you always be wrong?Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve. I am sure that every educated person is aware of that.Of course you're right. But there is an important point to be made in knowing who did the capturing.
While there is no way to justify participation in the inhuman crime of forcible enslavement the impression exists in the majority of contemporary minds that White people are exclusively responsible for the existence of slavery in America. This impression is the result of misinformation and disinformation put forth by a progression of race pimps, racial troublemakers and profiteers such as Alex Haley who effectively perpetuates the lie in his successful book, then movie, now series, Roots.
The fact is no White men ever ventured onto African soil to capture and enslave Black people. They didn't have to. Black African tribesmen routinely captured and enslaved members of rival tribes and sold them to Dutch, Arab and Portugese slave traders who, in turn, transported them to America and re-sold them to slave dealers.
The following is excerpted from an article by Thomas Sowell, a respected Black author and historian who has diligently investigated the circumstances laid out in Haley's allegedly historical work and found it to be totally fictional.
Excerpt:
For instance, “Roots has a white man leading a slave raid in West Africa, where the hero, Kunta Kinte [supposedly, Haley’s ancestor] was captured, looking bewildered at the chains put on him as he was led away in bondage.” Moreover, even “the village elders” likewise appeared perplexed by the sight of these “white men” who were “carrying their people away.” In glaring contrast to this depiction, Sowell correctly asserts, the location from which Kunta Kinte was taken — West Africa — had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there — and slavery continues in parts of it to this very moment.” He adds: “Africans sold vast numbers of other Africans to Europeans. But they hardly let Europeans go running around in their territory, catching people willy-nilly.”
Alex Haley’s “Roots”: Fact or Fiction?
(Close)
Anyone who is interested in investigating the facts in this controversial subject will find a treasury of reliable historical facts available via Google search. By no means will this research excuse or mitigate for the role of Whites in the crime of slavery, but it will show that Blacks are at least equally responsible for its existence.
So I am not sure what point you are making.
The "Roots" film deals specifically with the American experience in which the White race has to shoulder the blame. If there was no market for slavery then there would be no slavery.
The whole slavery thing, and its aftermath, still affects America to this day.
Slavery was NEVER a white man's preserve.
It has always been a man's preserve...race has nothing to do with it.
If only it were possible to educate a leftist Limey.
Yes I understand that slavery was not a white mans preserve
If you are struggling with it ask somebody to explain it to you.
He was sued for plagiarism...Nah. If Alex Haley said it was a fraudulent story...then ok. If someone else said it..it's just an opinion with no substance since it IS just an opinion.
Plus, I don't really care one way or another. I enjoy the storyline, awful as it is...but told wonderfully.
Bullshit.I personally knew the head of the genealogy association that did the generation sheets on Kunte Kinte.
The genealogy of the character was not false.
He probably IS related to old Kunta.