When I was a kid I met Alex Haley at a trade show my mom dragged me to (he was hawking “Roots” figurines or something) and shook his hand. I was on a germ kick at the time and verbalized my displeasure at having to touch a stranger and also that I thought his cologne stunk. My mom thought he heard and she was mad. He died soon after.
OneTV replayed both Roots week-long mini-TV-series series at Christmas and I found myself watching them again.
That mostly made up drama was very compelling, hard working blacks sacrificing so they and/or their kids could get ahead having to tolerate the evil racism of whites.
Part of the reason I enjoyed it is it brings me back to a time late 70s when I first saw it, that time was so different than now.
One of major scams in the series is the first episode where Kunta is captured in a net held by white slave traders in a scene eerily similar to Taylor being captured in Planet of the Apes 1968.
This was completely fictional. White Save Traders didn't risk their lives to go into Africa to catch slaves, and possibly damage them in the process.
Instead they just safely traded stuff for them with competing tribes who sold them captives,and they could inspect therm first before buying. So blacks sold blacks to whites.
But that was too messy and morally complex for Alex TV series, the fictional Planet of the Apes type capture was better suited to make whites feel guilty and blacks feel outraged.
And here we are with O uniting all the other races with some white wimmin and white young adults against whites.