Cast of "Roots" reunites after 36 years on NBC
I was a senior in high school in Killeen, Texas in 1977! I remember, like it was yesterday, how the Caucasian driven media of the time attempted to whip-up the white people of America into a fear frenzy about this television event. It was a crazy, stupid time.
I read it in the news articles, and heard on the TV news, that... "Will black people riot and will violence erupt as a result of this 'Roots' show!?"
What black people heard in 1977 from the white media, including me, was: Will the Niggers rebel as they see what white people did to their ancestors... in cold, stark images of... violence, visceral use of whips and chains, hangings and branding and lynchings and dismemberment and what else could be shown to the world about the horrors of slavery!
Roots liberally used the word NIGGER! You will hear the word NIGGER every goddamn minute of Roots, because the word was liberally used during slavery. Roots showed harsh, realistic images of whippings, rape, torture and oppression! And more horror...
But guess what, America. Something weird and never explained by the white media... ever... happened during the time of 1977 -- Niggers never rioted across the United States of America because of Roots. Why? Because black people, just like today in 2013, would rather try to get along with white people than fight them.
Why in the name of hell ON EARTH do black people want to get along with white people? That answer needs Ten books to explain that bat shit notion to white America!
Why can't the majority of you people with the white skin make the other half of the majority of white people with the white skin understand that black people are not your fucking enemy!
All white people... all of you... need to view all the hours of Roots. And then, you should show your white children what you saw in Roots. so they can see what their ancestors did to the ancestors of the black people who live next door to you -- those same black neighbors who give you a respectful hello every time they see you!
I own Roots. It is hard to watch because it depicts white people fucking black people in all the bad ways. I'll watch it again, soon. You, white person... if you've never seen Roots, you need to educate yourself about what REAL horror is!!
RLJ
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