Roots 2016 Did We Need Another, Roots?

Some months ago when I heard the remake of Roots would appear as a mini series,
I wondered,
Do "we" really need another "Roots" right now when America is so racially charged.
I found nothing worthy in a remake so I decided I would not view it.
That has proven harder and harder to adhere.

Y'see it is on so many channels and marathons a day,
it's harder than trying to avoid a "Cait" show a year ago. ​

If anyone on Board is watching Roots 2016,
I would appreciate their comments regarding its' worthiness.
I remember when the first Roots came out and, "yes" it was worthy.

Is Roots 2016, & Cait too,
acts of "social engineering", conspiracy, etc. . ​

Thank you


Moi


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Never heard of it.

The original series was pretty powerful however. Sounds like a network just trying to cash in though.

They should remake macgyver or something like that instead.

 

The Democratic Party forces would like to fire up their black voting base shortly before the election. They like to keep race riots on a slow boil at all times, occasionally turning up the heat when it benefits them politically. Plus it's going to be a hot summer... lots of dindu crime coming.

 

I'm sure you hated the original "Roots" too....or any movie that portrayed the enslavement of blacks as bad.

 

The series is on The History Channel, A&E, BBCA, and a couple of other channels.

They did remake Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama. That was pretty good IMO. They remade Hawaii Five-O. And Roots is no different.

They could remake MacGyver, but that would mean having a show about not using guns and the NRA would never go for it.

 

OH my YES! More and more of it. You know, the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow can never cease to be an excuse---even 2,000 years from now.

You see, because my British ancestors back over 1600 years ago were enslaved by the Romans and treated 10 times worse than plantation slaves on American soil--- I have been held back by this legacy. I only live in a $800,000 house and drive a Mustang V6. If I was not cursed by slavery, I could now be living in a $5 million house and be driving a $250,000 Ferrari.

Never forget!

 

I wondered if you enjoyed the remake of Star Trek, or Battlestar Galactica, or even Hawaii Five-O. They even remade All in the Family with The Jeffersons and 227.

 

Galactica is the only remake that was ever good.

Fracking networks.

 

I noticed in passing some black celebrity complaining that all the Black movies were about slavery. He thought there should be movies featuring competent and successful Blacks rather than all these movies showing Blacks as victims.

 

I did not hate the original Roots.
Yes, your comment was addressed to another.

The current Roots, complete with marathons, repeats and new episodes is on

A&E
LIFE
History
LMN​

Got saturation programming?

And maybe, just maybe, right now - June 2nd, 2016
a population is gonna go tribal ala Ferguson, Missouri
after becoming so infuriated at what they watch on their flatscreen.
More so than when that population watched the original on their tube. Si?


Moi


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Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.​

 

The Cosby Show!!!!!!!

Oh wait.....

 

Some answers here.
http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=459033&p=1066249800#post1066249800

Yes to some remakes but rarely.
The Mummy series was amazingly good but I still prefer Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula.
Hate the reinventing of werewolves too.
Never a Battlestar Galactica fan.
The Star Trek's were okay except knocking off the Vulcan and Romulan home worlds on the new timeline
is a bit excessive. Star Trek Enterprise (series) was great and maintaining the old lore and expanding it.
And I wish they would show Babylon 5 from the original again, one episode a week. No remake.
And I definitely favor developing "Mass Drivers" in orbit for our defense. They're non nuclear too.

Hope that covers Moi's bases.​

Moi

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Star Trek was t a remake, they are all different stories. I am watching enterprise right now and it's pretty good. Voyager had the best writing.

 

Here's an ideas.

If it doesn't interest you...don't watch it.

 

I do not think we needed another roots

 

they showed roots in our grade school, had never heard of slavery or racism until then

it's not something I recommend for grade school kids

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I think it is acceptable, even beneficial, for people to criticize art and entertainment. Some people even make a living at it.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2016/05/30/snoop-dogg-urges-roots-boycott-social-media/85158354/

I think Snoop Dogg's response is on target:
"I'm sick of this. ... How the (expletive) they gonna put Roots on Memorial Day?" a subdued Snoop Dogg asks in the selfie video. "They just going to keep beating that (expletive) into our heads as to how they did us, huh?"

The fact is, Liberals love to beat a tragic historical violence into black children's heads. Yes, slavery was and is horrible: but teaching a child to believe that his or her ancestors were most certainly tortured, whipped and raped while they whimpered helplessly is not a universal fact and serves to damage the self esteem of an entire race.

Clearly, it's a Liberal's fantasy, not the reality.

 

as long as it's not forced on grade school kids and is a choice... I agree

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your obviously not reading the "liberal" posts here

 

You know, my ancestors were treated just as badly, or even worse, as the black slaves, suffered in that institution for a longer time than American slavery, and were freed at about the same time.

But me and my fellow descendants don't go around (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing and moaning about it all the time.

 

YES DEAR!

But, there is "saturation programming".
Multiple Channels, simultaneously or staggered showing yesterday's episode, the day before and today's.
If not a marathon.
Like trying to avoid a "Cait" program. about a year ago

Have YOU watched any of it?
Is it worthy? Recommended or just PC?

 

Bravo Snoop Dogg!
He gets it.
Besides, "Roots" is probably one helluva buzz kill!


Forgotten is:
A slave was an expensive piece of property.
A laborer in the North was easily replaced at no cost to the "job creator".

How about a mini series patterned after "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
although that was more like, 1900. Labor as more mistreated than a slave.


Moi
I'm glad I grew up in the fifties!


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Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.​

 

I don't need any TV. So the answer is, no, "we" don't need <insert program>.

 

They felt it would be profitable to pick the slavery scab again--lest we ever forget. They should make an Irish version of Roots. There were more Irish slaves than black slaves.

 

I keep waiting for the Irish "Roots" to describe the history of my people as indentured servants and tenants.

"Pick them taters BOY!"

"Aye! But I need a pint to stave off the sunburn!"

Whip cracks and screaming off camera...