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I'm sure they did have smarts. But back then, most tribes damn sure were not talking about going to University and riding off in a huff from dad, on an arabian stallion. It's a crock of shit and most know it.Gracie brought this up in another thread and disappeared when I told her that Africa had higher education in the past.
What they did was make it seem as though africa was not a 3rd world country, and the people of tribes wanted to go to University...whereas most didn't even fucking know what a university is.
Did you see Jesus perform miracles first hand?A movie. Made in hollywood. Did you see first hand the slaves of that time of kunta kinte? Nope.Amazing how people keep having opinions on something they didn't see.
Did you see Jesus perform miracles first hand?A movie. Made in hollywood. Did you see first hand the slaves of that time of kunta kinte? Nope.Amazing how people keep having opinions on something they didn't see.
We can tell you totally didnt watch it. You would feel pretty foolish for that last post.And let's all just bypass the slavery underground and all those awful whities risking their lives helping blacks escape.
According to her ignorance. This is the level of bigotry you get when true information collides with what a racist believes is the truth. It causes cognitive dissonance. She was more content with the fables that taught her all Africans were buck naked savages eating missionaries.I'm sure they did have smarts. But back then, most tribes damn sure were not talking about going to University and riding off in a huff from dad, on an arabian stallion. It's a crock of shit and most know it.Gracie brought this up in another thread and disappeared when I told her that Africa had higher education in the past.
According to what? Your gut feeling?
Why? What was so good about the first one?First one was very good. And closer to actual history. Second one is fantasy land.
When do you think tribesmen started going to university? 100 years ago? 50? 25? 10? Last year, or just yesterday?I'm sure they did have smarts. But back then, most tribes damn sure were not talking about going to University and riding off in a huff from dad, on an arabian stallion. It's a crock of shit and most know it.Gracie brought this up in another thread and disappeared when I told her that Africa had higher education in the past.
The movie was not made in Hollywood. Sounds like you're spewing matter out of your backside....again.A movie. Made in hollywood. Did you see first hand the slaves of that time of kunta kinte? Nope.Amazing how people keep having opinions on something they didn't see.
What parts of the film did you identify as comic book material? I'm curious to know.Very well said!Given that TV is not a good source of accurate history, it is not a good idea to watch this show and think that anything you are watching reflects what really happened during the days of slavery.
In the 1930's, when Hollywood was pro-South, slavery was almost always portrayed as a benevolent institution, with happy-go-lucky darkies working for generous and kind-hearted white masters. Gone With The Wind portrayed slavery this way, and the North was portrayed as an evil aggressor for forcibly ending this "civilized" way of life.
The current Hollywood line that all blacks were miserable and beaten, and that all whites were cruel, heartless, abusive taskmasters who mercilessly whipped their slaves, is as much as a lie as the previous pro-slavery portrayal. I'm not saying that slavery is ever a good thing, but exaggerating and lying about slavery does not serve the greater truth, which is that slavery is always wrong even if the masters are trying their best to be good masters, and the slaves are happy in their enslaved condition.
And that's because slavery perpetuates the idea that a human being can ever be legally or morally treated as anything less than a human being, with full human rights, inalienable, endowed by our Creator, and guaranteed in the United States Constitution. The ideals of the Declaration of Independence, written by slave owner Thomas Jefferson, was the death knell of slavery. What it proves is that though the some of the Founding Fathers owned slaves, they knew it was wrong, and what's more important, they knew that slavery was a violation of everything the American Revolution stood for.
So what Roots is going to offer is "slavery porn." It will show black people getting beaten to an inch of their lives, and white people doing the whipping, and none of it will get us any closer to the answer we seek, which is that all human beings, regardless of age, sex, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or status as born or unborn, is entitled to full rights under the U.S. Constitution, since we are all fully human and children of God. When Hollywood starts tackling current injustices, like abortion, with the bravery it tackles injustices that have already been resolved, then I will be impressed.
I watched the first episode of what clearly is an opportunistic effort to generate box-office profits while rubbing salt on an old wound and I thought it was a poorly crafted, poorly performed, often absurd waste of time. But I'm sure it will be a hit with a lot of mainly young Blacks who already are indoctrinated with hatred for Whites and undoubtedly will provoke a substantial increase in what already is a serious rate of Black on White crime.
Having read a few very good historical accounts of the slavery era in America and having watched several extremely well-made movies and televised documentaries of that shamefully cruel practice I feel justified in dismissing this amateurish production as comic-book level trash.
This one was also very well acted, and written. Not to mention that the production improved by leaps and bounds. Casting was stellar.I don't have any interest in seeing the new one. The first one was excellent, well acted and well written.
I'll be watching the original again soon. Most likely before the month is over. Last time I saw it was early to mid eighties. I was 10 or less. It was an EXCELLENT idea to remake the movie for a new generation and a reminder to the older generations.First one was very good. And closer to actual history. Second one is fantasy land.
Were you watching the WGN show "Underground?" It's excellent. Have you been watching it?And let's all just bypass the slavery underground and all those awful whities risking their lives helping blacks escape.
Thanks brother, if I didn't, you would have.Did you guys watch it? Did you watch the first one? Which one you prefer? Thoughts?
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I'm glad to see you beat me to this. i initially was not going to watch it but my oldest daughter talked me into it. I thought it was excellent. I liked the first one but I think this most recent one is better. I loved the emphasis on the vibrant West African culture that was already in existence. My daughter remembers me holding up her younger sisters to the stars and was really appreciative of me teaching her what I knew about our African history.
