Posted on 02/17/2020 12:33:07 PM PST by blindsangamon
Sure I do................
So, he supports and engages in slavery.
Um...the stupid, it burns!
LOL, that was the very first thing that popped into my mind...
“...aaaaaaaaagggggghhhhIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!”
Really good observation.
Mr Kidnapper man..can’t i watch 8 hours of In Living Color instead?
Or “Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip”?
At least they didn’t make her read the 50+ hours of court testimony that showed that Haley ripped off the whole damned BS book from another fiction writer.
Or like Louie DePalma on Taxi, just offer to make a generous donation to the United Negro College Fund.
thats horrible
no kidding Alex Hailey was a racist
Haley made up the parts that he didn't plagiarize. Maybe it turned out to be a nice book that made people feel good, but that's the truth of it.
We rent roots once a year and play it backwards so it has a happy ending
"Roots faced two lawsuits that charged plagiarism and copyright infringement. The lawsuit brought by Margaret Walker was dismissed, but Harold Courlander's suit was successful. Courlander's novel The African describes an African boy who is captured by slave traders, follows him across the Atlantic on a slave ship, and describes his attempts to hold on to his African traditions on a plantation in America. Haley admitted that some passages from The African had made it into Roots, settling the case out of court in 1978 and paying Courlander $650,000.[26][27]
Genealogists have also disputed Haley's research and conclusions in Roots. The Gambian griot turned out not to be a real griot, and the story of Kunta Kinte appears to have been a case of circular reporting, in which Haley's own words were repeated back to him.[28][29] None of the written records in Virginia and North Carolina line up with the Roots story until after the Civil War. Some elements of Haley's family story can be found in the written records, but the most likely genealogy would be different from the one described in Roots.[30]
Haley and his work have been excluded from the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, despite his status as the United States' best-selling black author. Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the anthology's general editors, has denied that the controversies surrounding Haley's works are the reason for this exclusion. In 1998 Dr. Gates acknowledged the doubts surrounding Haley's claims about Roots, saying, "Most of us feel it's highly unlikely that Alex actually found the village whence his ancestors sprang. Roots is a work of the imagination rather than strict historical scholarship."[31]
The criminal who did this did so based on the lie that Roots was a real account. Haley was a fraud.
Weird. Did he somehow know her or just pull her off the street? (Article doesn’t provide much info).
I wonder what party he used to vote for before he became a felon, even if it was a while back. And, what party he’ll vote for if the Dems get their way on the felon/imprisoned vote. /S
Yes, its been proven Alex Haley MADE IT UP as he went along.
This is disgusting. Such an ignorant low IQ piece of trash like this guy should have his parts strewn over Rt. 70, somewhere where he could contribute to the local ecology. He could have injured or killed this person while keeping them prisoner and threatening them.
One of the things that you can learn from roots is that African tribes were selling members of other tribes to the slave traders.
well that certainly won’t add to her racism.
So she was forced to watch a largely fictionalized and misleading program — the legitimate parts of which were plagiarized — that re-cast the African-on-African slave trade (which persists to this day) as a product of evil white people?
Well, that’s a reasonably fair education on how stupid the racism industry is.
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