Let us be fair and honest about the present level of consciousness of our people in general and other activists in particular...
As was also true A Birth Of A Nation (film), the remake of Roots (TV MINI SERIES) is a revisionist retelling of the history of race relations in this nation...
I praise those original producers and writers of the first series:
Only time will tell us what truly motivates the remake!!!
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GREETINGS & GTSY CHUCK....
IVE ALWAYS HELD ALEX HALEY IN HIGH ESTEEM.....AND I ALWAYS WILL...
THE MAN WROTE THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.....A BOOK I WILL ALWAYS TREASURE...
BUT....I GOTTA ADMIT......IVE HAD COUNTLESS FIGHTS CONCERNING THE VALIDITY OF HIS BOOK, ROOTS......AND THE TIMING OF THOSE ACCUSATIONS CLAIMING HIS BOOK TO BE FALSE........THEY CAME RIGHT AROUND THE TIME WHEN TIGER WOODS AND THE WILLIAMS SISTERS WERE KICKIN BUTTS , MAKING THEIR MARKS.....IN TWO SPORTS WHITE PPL LOVE DEARLY...
I FOUND THAT SPECIFIC TIMING......VERY SUSPICIOUS.....
THERE WERE ENDLESS FORUMS ALL OVER THE INTERNET IN THE EARLY 2000'S , ALL OF THEM WERE RACIALLY TRASHING TIGER WOODS AND THE WILLIAMS SISTERS....WITH PHOTOS OF THEIR BODIES IN ACTION WITH GORILLA AND MONKEY FACES ON THEM.....AND IN ALL OF THESE FORUMS (13-plus) , THEY WERE MAKING CLAIMS THAT ALEX HALEY WAS A FRAUD , ADDING THAT ROOTS WAS PURE FICTION...
IT JUST DIDNT MAKE SENSE TO ME.....WHY EVEN BRING UP ALEX HALEY OR ROOTS....AFTER 25 PLUS YEARS ?....WITH NOTHING BUT HIGH EMOTIONAL SARCASTIC CLAIMS, WITH NO REAL PROOF WHATSOEVER ?
I REMEMBER THE IMPACT ROOTS HAD ( i was in elementary school back then ) .....WHITE FOLKS EVERYWHERE WERE NERVOUS , WHILE BLACK FOLKS ENJOYED LAUGHING AT WHITE FOLKS......SHARING STORIES OF FEAR....
REGARDLESS WHAT THEIR MOTIVES ARE FOR THIS NEW ROOTS.....WE ALL KNOW THEY ARENT INTERESTED IN GIVING BACK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US...
TO BE HONEST CHUCK....IF THERE WERENT SO MANY SELL-OUTS IN HOLLYWOOD.....THEY COULD HAVE PUT SOME MONEY TOGETHER AND MAKE A POWERFUL REMAKE OF THE BEST GET-WHITEY MOVIE EVER MADE ---> " THE SPOOK WHO SAT BEHIND THE DOOR "