Are you going to watch the remake of "Roots" next week?

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:00:20 PM EDT

yay or nay

Pib

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:00:59 PM EDT

[#1]

lol

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:01:20 PM EDT

[#2]

Lol fuck no.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:02:27 PM EDT

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I'm serious.

The Finals don't start til Thursday. Lol

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:03:02 PM EDT

[#4]

I am sure it has nothing to do with an attempt to fan racial flames for political purposes.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:03:15 PM EDT

[#5]

I get the white guilt message shoved down my throat in every other aspect of media, fuck willfully subjecting myself to that tripe.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:03:52 PM EDT

[#6]

I will

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:03:55 PM EDT

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This exactly.

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:04:26 PM EDT

[#8]

Um...no.
I'd have to kick my own white ass if I even thought about it.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:05:24 PM EDT

[#9]

We're gonna get the projector and white sheets out and play it for all the neighborhood kids. It's gonna be a big event.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:05:34 PM EDT

[#10]

I think I was 7 or 8 when it first aired.

I care as much now as I did then.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:07:02 PM EDT

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wasn't the author proven to be a fraud that made up whatever parts of the story he liked?

Not that being a fraud would slow the narrative of the day, just an idle question.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:07:07 PM EDT

[#12]

Hell no.

I get enough white shaming during the week already. No need to subject myself to this.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:07:39 PM EDT

[#13]

No, I watched the original on TV as a kid.

Somethings shouldn't be rewatched.

Chris

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:07:40 PM EDT

[#14]

I was going to, but then I remembered that's the day it was my turn to get shot out of a cannon.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:07:57 PM EDT

[#15]

I'll prob check it out just for the PC hilarity.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:09:25 PM EDT

[#16]

Fuck no!

I hear it's been BLMed to be extra anti-whitey.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:10:01 PM EDT

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This. I am sure it is purely a historical, Discovery-channel type piece, without ANY political bias, at all.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:10:33 PM EDT

[#18]

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I'm going to record it and watch it backwards so it'll have a happy ending.

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No, I think I won't be watching it. There hasn't been anything based on history worth watching on TV for a long time. It's all framed to push an agenda anymore, unfortunately.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:10:43 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:11:51 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:12:23 PM EDT

[#21]

No, I'm white

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:13:43 PM EDT

[#22]

Nah.

I see enough black people on TV as it is.

Mainly on the 6 o'clock news.

Cuz, ya know... the reporters.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:13:56 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:15:20 PM EDT

[#24]

Nope. Never seen the original, either.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:18:49 PM EDT

[#25]

Never watched the first one...

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:19:49 PM EDT

[#26]

Nope, I'm quite sure that the original series is better.

And I've read the book several times.

I'd wager that this new version will be filled with even more PC bullshit than actual historical context.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:22:10 PM EDT

[#27]

I despise fiction that's passed off as documentary-drama and the networks that do it.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:22:58 PM EDT

[#28]

It's rather ironic that the movie has a white guilt agenda by bringing up slavery in America, but not that those slaves were sold to the slave traders by Africans. The practice of slavery continues in Africa to this day.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:23:08 PM EDT

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Oh! It definitely does. Memorial Day weekend, 7 weeks before the RNC?

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:23:12 PM EDT

[#30]

Not just "NO" . . .

. . . but . . .

. . . "F*** NO"

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:23:53 PM EDT

[#31]

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Fuck no!

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TRUE.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:25:07 PM EDT

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Came to post this exact response...

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:25:18 PM EDT

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I get the white guilt message shoved down my throat in every other aspect of media, fuck willfully subjecting myself to that tripe.

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I own ZERO quilt about slavery. My ancestors arrived here in the 1890s.

Fuck 'em.

I was really young when the original came out in the 70s. I'll probably watch some of it, if it's alright, I'll stay with it.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:26:06 PM EDT

[#34]

I guess I'm racist for not watching. Oh well, don't care.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:26:11 PM EDT

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I think I was 7 or 8 when it first aired.

I care as much now as I did then.

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We're about the same age.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:26:32 PM EDT

[#36]

ROOTS, the sport channel with the Stanley Cup finals on....yes.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:26:54 PM EDT

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wasn't the author proven to be a fraud that made up whatever parts of the story he liked?

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Alex Haley?

I don't know nuffin bout dat.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:27:40 PM EDT

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Hell no.

I get enough white shaming during the week already. No need to subject myself to this.

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Are you ashamed to be white?

Because I sure as fuck am not.....

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:28:26 PM EDT

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I'd rather do that too.

But ain't got no cannon

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:28:56 PM EDT

[#40]

Fuck no. I've been white guilted to death already.

They won't show a black man selling another black man to a white man, because politics.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:28:57 PM EDT

[#41]

101 people are racist

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:29:01 PM EDT

[#42]

Sure

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:29:20 PM EDT

[#43]

I should...

I won't be around to see the next one in 25 years.

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:29:48 PM EDT

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/Begin tasteless joke/

I'm going to record it and watch it backwards so it'll have a happy ending.

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No, I think I won't be watching it. There hasn't been anything based on history worth watching on TV for a long time. It's all framed to push an agenda anymore, unfortunately.

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I agree, but I just say "FU! I'm an Anteater!!!!"

Posted: 5/27/2016 8:31:12 PM EDT

[#45]

I'm kidding. Headed to the couch right now for a front row seat.

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Posted: 5/27/2016 8:31:26 PM EDT

[#46]

I intend to watch it until my white ass gets insulted, then I'll change channels. Lately, I get insulted very often. I try to remember the sponsors so I'll know not to buy their shit.

I'm predicting I get to watch 5 minutes or less.