Roots - opening credits - Alex Hayley

[xgmb45]

this ALWAYS gives me the chills for some reason

[HorrorMovieCollab]

i saw this in middle school and loved it!

[xelanesqueHQ]

@HorrorMovieCollab I saw it in the 5th grade

[Mysterwright]

I find it highly upsetting how the USA is browbeaten for its treatment of slaves and yet the same thing has happened for THOUSANDS of years in Europe. Even today, there are parts of England that still frown down upon minorities. Not to say that they have negative intent but the same ignorance we've had and are working to change isn't the same case across the planet. That's unfair also. I believe it'd go a long way to tell UK what happened once slaves here were freed in Iberian Peninsula.

[Mysterwright]

<3

[tc030564]

omg i was 13 when this prgrame come to t.v.in 77 here in the uk & it has and had a profound affect on me all my life i now have it on dvd and have probly watched it 100 times or more in the last ten years as well as roots the next generations and "queen" what was done to black peoples was a terrable thing but thay also need to relise that slavery was practised between the defarant tribes as well long before the white man came along, not that thats and excuse mr Hailey sir thank you and R.I.P.

[pissedoff7771]

i love quincys work.my girl freinds and i put the color purple in on a friday playing it over and over until sunday evening.doing house work laughing at certain parts and crying.we marveled at how ceily and sofia over came all the negative things that were in their way.old mister got his in the end.he knew he had to make things right.these youngens out here better make things right and stop killng.in the end the most harden criminal trys to weasle their way out when caught.

[pissedoff7771]

black people need to learn what their ancestors went through and stop killing their own. people have laid down their lives for us to have a better life but do these young people thank them.no they pick up where vicious whites left off. they do not need the klan or neo nazis these fools are killing their own over nothing and think that makes them men and women.they need to take all of that negative energy and make something positive out of it for our future children and their children

[19MisterT84]

WHAT THE HELL 2 dislikes thats just crazy ,, this is a great opening to a great series

[xelanesqueHQ]

@19MisterT84 I agree X(

[WildBill6942]

I grew up watching this mini-series like most and it stuck with me my whole life. And as much as I despise Hollywood remaking the classics, I wouldn't mind seeing an updated version of this. I don't think it's a matter of making it better, just giving it a facelift. I might be wrong. 

[jmjfanss]

@WildBill6942

I Doubt it, they should just leave it alone.

[antiquax]

A brilliant series - the cruelty it depicts is almost unbelievable

[FayeLouiseKehoe]

my farther use to watch this tv programme and in my history lessons we were learning about the later side of america like kkk and stuff and he has this on dvd and told me to watch it, i did and its amazing it sticks with you your hole life and i was speechless when i watched it all it just changed y way of thinking for the rest of my life what an amazing tv series!

[BlackMachismo316]

Putting all my black racial jokes aside, I thought ROOTS was the most geniusly constructed mini series and was absolutely fantastic. I respected the black slaves because they were humble black people from Africa. I hate the niggers of today. They have no values and are just straight up obnoxious. They make their race look bad. MM

[WhiteLotusTile]

Omg the epicness...

[tranurse]

@gtk4158a you make me ashamed to be white. that means i have something in common with you.

[1963tatanka]

好きな時代劇の一つだね、「ルーツ」は。アメリカのテレビドラマ­では一番好きです。

[jamalie100]

@gtk4158a clearly ur not black

[Noodles37UK]

Controversial or not, read the book, it's amazing.

[exahtahtor]

@gtk4158a hopefully statements like these will wake up all black people and realize the white man hasnt changed and still views us as slaves. 400 years later,we up agaisnt the same shit

[pah550]

@exahtahtor The white man, guess that must be me. I watched this as a child and remember that it was upsetting at times to watch and understand. I'm 42 now and still don't hold any racist values, but i never had any to begin with. My parents didn't instil any in me and i never developed any. i really don't care what colour people are or what gods they believe in. It'd be a boring world if we were all the same.

[ankokugaiBOSS]

@pah550 you made a response to the wrong person. I think you should have addressed "gtk4158a" for that outrageous comment. You see, when negative comments are aimed at Blacks and they respond, so-called color blind white people get mad at Black people (like...shut up, turn the other cheek..bend over and TAKE IT). Meanwhile, when whites like that make racist statements, these go unchecked.

[tranurse]

@pah550 exactly. i don't want to be color blind, because i think like you said it would be boring if we were all alike. i just don't see where it matters.

[sandinyourshoes]

Sadly, Alex Haley left us all too soon. Still, I am sure he was so pleased he could use his time to record his family's history. What a classy man to put so much energy into such a creative project. He is a source of inspiration. His books continue to merit a special place in all the institutions of higher education.

This classic series will continue to be simply timeless in the years to come.

[KjvYaBoyIsHere]

This is the mos incredible movie i have ever seen this and nesxt generations

[glaucepotter16]

Wonderful serie. In Brazil, it was a sucess!

[veeseee128]

All you racist fuckin white trash honkeys get off this page!

[princess892007]

Jesus man cant we all just get a long we are all the same no matter what religon what skin color what race you are we are all people living in this world we dont have a need for racism or hatred killing a human is like killing your own siblings and thats acctully what religion tried to do but all it did was cause hatred divisoin and war so if we all come together we can overcome anything

[ManInControI]

@princess892007 pass me the sick bucket

[hotcocosk8er]

White power! Amen brothers! White is right! The end is near when the blacks are here.

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 your making no sense kid ''russian nigger'' never heard that before see you tonight at dinner when i come over to fuck your mom she loves my russian nigger cock you american honky nigger now i sound as stupid as you. ps MUAH HAHAHAHAHAHA *Dr Evil face*

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 your starting to make nosense kid you wasn' t talking all that shit last night at dinner, oh yea tell your mom im coming over tonight to fuck her senseless, she said you dont fuck her like i do because you have a 2 inch weener. i told her to cut that white trash incest shit out and she told me she "i cant where a white trash honky redneck family thats what we do fuck each other." MUAH HAHAHAHA *Dr Evil face*

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 tell your mom did she enjoy sucking the skin off my huge russian cock last night. I fucked the shit outta your mothers face last night and came in her mouth and she swallowed my cum, then your grandmother came over and i fucked the holy hell out of her tight little pussy she was a little hesitant at first but she came around her pussy was so tight it felt like she hadn't been fucked in ages then i sucked her saggy old titties and came all over them, see you tonight at dinner.

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 cybertroll2011 is a racist white honky who does nothing all day but trolls peoples videos on youtube when hes not fuckin his own mother or eating his little sisters herpes crabs and ganaria infested cunt

his grandmother is a whore who use to suck the cocks of many waffen-ss aka nazi ss and his father is a pedophile child molester who enjoys penetrating cybertrolls tight little ass hole everynow and then typical american white trash family

[jjmegaman90]

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[jjmegaman90]

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[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OWNED

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 HAHAHAHAHAHA OWNED

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 you got owned kid go troll else where

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 u sound angry u bipolar inbred redneck its a hobby for cock suckers like you to sit behind a keyboard and write offensive immature comments on poples videos and when somebody tell you off you get all butt hurt ur probably a 16 year old virgin who stay home all day and jerk off to the family photo album and stay on youtube trolling peoples videos gtfoh bitch boy

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 i own u kid hit the bricks before i put a dunce cap on you and give u a spanking faggot

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 somebodys getting butt hurt if you cant handle the heat stop trolling u cum guzzlin nazi

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 atleast i dont jerkoff to my mothers pictures and fuck my little sister and let my dad tickle my ass hole you failed abortion ps im not black im russian asshole

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 aww poor little inbred white trash no life troll

[princess892007]

roots is the most memorable movie sereies ever i actully used to be really racsict mother fucker to blacks but when i watched roots it changed me showing me the hard ship that blacks went trough but i got a major headache when the night riders came trhough and burned down the builings in ep6 beacuse of their yelling

[jjmegaman90]

@cybertroll2011 gtfoh racist troll

[o0oGKo0o]

Wow..just finished watching this show on MLyngsoeL's channel...truly marvelous.

[SuperStinger64]

they've ben true alot

[yamisupersaiyan]

@rudeboyazab

white people behead muslims *fixed*

[HypocriteSkeleton3]

I'm watching this tomorrow. It's been forever since i've seen Roots from the beginning to the end. I always loved the intro. I also found it sad when Kizzy was taken away from Kunta Kinte, and then raped by that scumbag, Tom Moore.

[227060]

Whose the more notble character from roots. Kunta kinte or Chicken George

[LoggotyroX32]

@227060

Kunta of course, :)

[227060]

@LoggotyroX32 Yeah, although George has a funnier name

[227060]

i think the pictures are part f just one big image they are moving around, I'd love to see the thing in its entirety since they are beautiful pictures

[PvtPyle17]

Funniest part about chicken george. His father is blond headed chuck conners. His mom is light skinned kizzy. He comes out as ben vereen, black as the ace of spades. Nappy headed as shit. They could have found a better suited actor, but oh well. Ratings were good.

[aitraining]

@PvtPyle17 yeah i agree. lets not also forget having john amos as an older levar burton??? A burly muscular guy who looks nothing like Levar. casting was a little off but this opening was great and the series teriffic.

[XXPlayBoyXX1996]

@PvtPyle17

Well george could have been more lighter on heæs skin but.. He may have the skin colour after his brave and honorable father :)

[supermum53]

I was a trainee nurse back in the 70's when we saw this. I am now 55, I have never forgotten the impact it made on me !

[billy2rivers1]

One of the greatest tv shows ever iam white and have all the dvds.Just a shame that it leaves out the part where blacks sold out other blacks but thats by the by. The black race was treated awfuly but alex haley should have just said it was a novel and not lied to the world.

[superstarjosh]

at 0:36 when you see Chicken George, gives me chills every time, in a good way, something about all the emotion in his face just gets me.

[edwinemail2002temp]

People should learn to respect the roots of different cultures.

[santason1987]

I saw this show just 2 years ago and that really make me discover who i am, i'm from the french caribe but i never been told the slavery history, no movies, no lectures, nothing at the school, roots is a fantastic movie but also a historic painting, that's important people to know this story. That really shocked me and inspire this theme i called kunta kinte memories

[Ninaj09]

@santason1987 except in haiti. here, since the first grade, we learn about all the hardship our ancestors have endure. I've think that it's shame that in the rest of the caribe, children do not learn about the history of their ancestors. we should do something about it

[hutch2818]

They need to show this series again. To remind white people how bad black people had it. And to remind black people although there is more to be done, look how far things have come. I think both sides are guilty all too often of not remembering each of those things.

[Juliaflo]

@hutch2818 You could never had said it more sweetly. Chances are that people will never be able to see it the same way, now that we have an African-American (actually Afro-European) President.

[T81PA]

somebody said it woulda been nice if they had shown Roots from the end to the beginning.

[ycdtotv]

@hutch2818  Blacks did have it bad... so did Chinese, Japanese, American indians, Irish, Italians, Jews... on and on and on.

[hutch2818]

@ycdtotv Agreed, but I don't know what that has to do with particular series

[Juliaflo]

@hutch2818 I distinctly second that, this being the 35th anniversary of the one that set the standard for miniseries.

[dipsetallday75]

the intro is so soulfful

[p994able]

I love the music and artwork all together! I really moves me

[wade7407]

Who was the hip hop artist that sampled this theme song?

[EDDIEP35]

one of the most memorable opening credits of all time , this series as lived with me all my life and i was only a 4 or 5 year old child when it was released , just brilliant

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

A wonderful comment EDDIEP35.

[MrDarkmarius]

I have the box set of Roots & we watch it every spring. I wonder why they took LeVar Burton out of the series after a few episodes. He was perfect for that part. They could have made him look old, but I think they were after making Kunta Kinte big & muscular. Levar Burton was not big or muscular, but John Amos was big enough to look the part. I liked John as Kunta Kinte, but I would have preferred Levar. He brought an innocence to the part

[ankokugaiBOSS]

@EDDIEP35 yes! and the artwork was so incredibly accurate in details of the actors' facial features. Simply amazing.

[carbonsteelblade]

thanks man i alway`s liked the opening