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Roots: The Groundbreaking Series Reimagined
History Channel ^ | May 17, 2016

Posted on 05/18/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by EveningStar

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1 posted on 05/18/2016 9:52:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 05/18/2016 9:52:57 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

No thanks. I saw the original, the Next Generation series, and the Queen series, probably more than once. Enough is enough.


3 posted on 05/18/2016 9:57:22 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Ok, slavery was bad, I get it.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 9:58:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mass55th

Enough is enough......


5 posted on 05/18/2016 10:00:01 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: mass55th

The original series was very well done. Even for its time, it still holds up. There is no reason to reinvent something that was already well done. Hollyweird has a strange idea that we need to reboot everything that has already been done.

Pure laziness.


6 posted on 05/18/2016 10:00:52 AM PDT by Snark
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To: EveningStar

Was there not a time when this story was exposed as “made up”?


7 posted on 05/18/2016 10:03:36 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: EveningStar

Roots - Now With More Whuppins and Cryins to show how bad dat Evil White Man really be!


8 posted on 05/18/2016 10:04:47 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: EveningStar

I was a slave from an early age and trust me, my folks didn’t pay me much. Then it was my uncle Sam, who also didn’t pay me much either. Since then it has been an assortment of employers and finally I make some decent money, but trust me, I worked for every dime I ever made and so could and should every black since slavery was stamped out.


9 posted on 05/18/2016 10:05:03 AM PDT by umgud
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To: Snark

Yep we know the story. Kunte Kinte and all that. He was beaten until he said his name was Toby. They trace their family line up to Alex Haley. They traced their family history farther back than most of us can. They survived slavery and Jim Crow and the family lived on. We get it.

I have no plans to watch it. Saw the original but don’t want to revisit it.


10 posted on 05/18/2016 10:05:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Snark
Pure laziness.

Also, lack or originality and creativity. Today in Hollywood, a "good idea" is figuring our what to remake next.

11 posted on 05/18/2016 10:07:05 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: EveningStar

History Channel?

No. That’s been disproved. Repeatedly.


12 posted on 05/18/2016 10:08:11 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Snark
Pure laziness.

Nah, pure lack of talent.

13 posted on 05/18/2016 10:08:24 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: EveningStar
Have no interest, I did not watch much of the original one.
Then you find out that Alex Haley, made up and plagiarized mush of the book to begin with.
14 posted on 05/18/2016 10:08:53 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EveningStar

I wonder if Kunta Kenti will be captured by the evil white slave hunters again this time around, or if they will tell it like it was and have him captured by the Islamic slave hunters?


15 posted on 05/18/2016 10:08:59 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Talisker

In the new version:

“Ay, yo, n@gger, bale this cotton!”

“S___ my d___, Massa!”

(Credit to Eddie Murphy)


16 posted on 05/18/2016 10:09:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: litehaus

Yes. Haley stole the story from a WHITE GUY who documented it years before. Haley settled and “Roots” was quietly removed from the History section to the Fiction section.


17 posted on 05/18/2016 10:09:28 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: litehaus
Was there not a time when this story was exposed as “made up”?

Somewhat. There was also an accusation of plagiarism.
18 posted on 05/18/2016 10:09:31 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Holy snikes!
It just hit me.

“Reimagined” on the “History Channel”.

WTF?!


19 posted on 05/18/2016 10:10:20 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Snark

Pure how the industry has always run. Really remakes have been the bread and butter of Hollywood since it was in NYC.


20 posted on 05/18/2016 10:10:25 AM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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