Alex Haley plagiarized the story.
Alex Haley plagiarized the story.
The point is that the story wasn’t real as he claimed it to be. It was so inspiring. A couple of snippets of words remembered by the oldest women in the family all they way to his going to a village in Ghana and hearing an oral history of how his gggg grandfather was taken while making a drum, matching the family’s history. Incredible, and as it turned out, all b.s.
And yet it is held up because even if the story isn’t true, it SHOULD be true. Another example of how someone’s “truth” trumps facts.