Roots : rebellion amongst the slave ship Lord Ligonier by Kunta Kinte

[bamfan151]

such a watered down film. educationally, its great that it informed many non black families about what happened back in the 70s, but knowing how waterered down this film is bugs me a tad bit. watch "la amistad" for a more accurate reflection of the middle passage

[yourwhitemaster]

NIGGEROLOGY: The advanced study of black people....

[judopathoftruth]

mandinka know there religon.

[MrBewhoyouare]

whats the name of the movie?thanks

[djamaluddin]

@MrBewhoyouare Its a series called "ROOTS" based on Alex Haley's novel

[Elisabeth1903]

OMG! I was allowed to watch this back in '75! (I was 11 years old)

[StephonWallace]

i got black people on my family tree, and they are still hanging

[DollaBiIIz]

DAMN THE WHITE SCUM!!

[Richy0money]

Roots was copied largely from a novel called The African. a work of fiction written by a white man, Hal Courlander. Mr. Haley copied language, thoughts, attitudes, incidents, situations, plot and character. Courlander and Haley settled the case with a financial settlement and a statement that "Alex Haley acknowledges and regrets that various materials from The African by Harold Courlander found their way into his book, Roots. The sad part is they have shown this in schools as truth.

[maxwall7755]

Hmm wasn't the monkey caught by another tribe of monkeys and then sold/traded to the white man??

[fan1odw]

we watched the first episode of Roots in history- when the slavers chased down Kunta Kinte when he ran away from the Plantation I had to turn my back when the axe was coming down on his foot.

[spartonsfan911]

the majority of the comments on videos like this just show how fucked up humans are and how terrible things like slavery could happen

[Noobssuckass300]

fight scene is so unrealistc.

[hotcocosk8er]

Over here in Canada.

[hotcocosk8er]

I still own a few slaves on my farm.

[AfterPartyEnt]

@hotcocosk8er - where is your farm, I would like to pay you a visit.

[Razersun]

I'm not for slavery or anything, but I wouldn't mind owning a wench or two.

[KingsleyEnnis1]

YER NAME IS TOBY !! LEMME HEAR YA SAY IT !! TOBY !!

[starguard]

Very few people know this..but very similar things like this happened on board many ships in the US Navy during the Vietnam war!!

[KingsleyEnnis1]

End the unemployment crisis. Put millions of NIGGERS back to work. Vote to repeal the 13th Ammendment.

[KingsleyEnnis1]

NIGGEROLOGY The advanced study of black people.

[pastorskid2911]

thats whats they get for beliving in allah and not the GOD almighty

[jetfire5091]

@pastorskid2911 allah meens god u idiot

[0016danielle]

@pastorskid2911 u dumb ass allah means god in a different language

[dakboyyall]

@pastorskid2911 Allah is god.

[pyromaniaknl]

people still complain about slavery which is so long ago that u can't blame any1 for that and augments is right long before that there was slavery in europe to alot of countrys did filthy shit and decapicate people only now third world countrys are kept poor by america and europe and buy there resorces for almost nothing so thats also a form of slavery but u must blame the goverment and rich people that own large corporations for that we are all gonna be slaves in the future

[dewberry70]

The saddest thing to me is that our people are still fighting amonst ourselves unwilling to help a brother/ sister when possible. That's why slavery lasted so long- refusal to unit as a people. House slave kitchen slave field slave was the same- SLAVE- with no voice.

[McLarenMercedes]

@dewberry70

the thing was without the law on their side there was little slaves could do even if they united. slave revolts did happen but they were brutally struck down

also where could they run to? some historians say this is why indians were never used as slaves

[marlaypk]

Ignorant americans!

[shaquainah]

did you know the cival war ended in 1865

[PRIMEx420]

did you know "civil" is spelled without the letter "A"?

[unconditionalluv]

This reminds me of the 1997 movie Amistad. A powerful movie about slaves coming to America.

[1truepath]

There is NO god But ALLAH

[RaotorStudios]

Noob, learn the real religion.

[PRIMEx420]

and the flying spaghetti monster

[TrackRunnaBeatBoi]

God's Choosen People:

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; (Deuteronomy 28:49)

And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt(Bondage) again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. (Deuteronomy 28:68)

[hunky68]

Nope none of then went back to Africa they died as slaves in the U.S.

[girlilious]

i cant believe people could be so evil i wanna know what happends at the end does kunte kinte go back to africa?

[Ggurl777]

I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!!!!!

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Oh no. He died as a slave but he did the next best thing. Slave masters wanted Africans to forget everything about....Africa. Kunte Kinte refused that. He remembered who he was and where he came from and made sure the story was passed down through his family.

Powerfully rare considering lots of African-Americans (including myself) don't know anything about their beginnings.

[victoriapug]

I hate the way white people treated the slaves. The Africans were like pets who do work for the stupid ignorant white people in the 1400s to the 1800s. I'm white but i stongly hate this the African slavery. I think the white people who were "addicted" to slavery were savages- not the Africans.

[Augments]

Africans did the same to Europeans (Barbary States), loads of cultures around the world did it.

[thirdpositionist]

"White people" didn't participate in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. ALL white people should not be blamed for what spics, kikes & limeys did. Instead, blame spics, kikes & limeys!

[MrsYoungFresh1]

@thirdpositionist .......You are definitely are white because you are using terms and labels such as spics kites and limeys. As you probably witness as you types those labels that the underlining was red because that word doesn't exist in any language ... , but HATE which is the Language of evil..... black people you white because generally the lack of pigmentation. Ireland Italy Spain even the ISLANDS BEFORE AFRICANS ARRIVED THERE. ALL THOSE NAMES IN YOU SAID ARE WHITE TO AFRICANS

[thirdpositionist]

Thanks for making my point for me. But lets not forget 1,500 years of Arab slavery of Blacks; and lets not forget that the Cherokee Nation were some of the biggest slave peddlers in the United States. They purchased them at the ports and dragged them all over the South in chains to sell.

[McLarenMercedes]

@thirdpositionist

And who were the ones buying them and organizing the whole thing?

[thirdpositionist]

@McLarenMercedes During the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Spanish and Portuguese colonists made up 95% of the buyers according to many sources including the 'Black Almanac'. The other 5% were colonists from the American South and a few small places in the Caribbean and Central America, and were made up of buyers of English, Scottish, Dutch, Jewish, French, and Cherokee ancestry. The organizers were int'l cliques of Jews who owned the ships, and the monarchies of Spain, Portugal, and Britain.

[soulyemane]

There was one recorded instance of slaves making it back to Africa.The story of Sengbe Pieh,retold in the film Amistad.Pieh is a national hero in Sierra Leone and his potrait adotns one of our currency notes.

[NuclearFist]

@girlilious He lived the rest of his life in bondage still but married, had a daughter, who kept the history of Kunta Kinte alive.

[darkguy555]

wow, what happened at the beginning

[laminage]

One of the Wenches was raped and the pain of being on The Ship was just too overwhelming. She decided that she would "die" than have any of the crew members "touch" her again. In the book, it was worse because she was eaten by a Shark.

[thirdpositionist]

Was it a Great White Shark??

[laminage]

I dunno. My heart broke for that woman.  She was beyond terrified.

[thirdpositionist]

This was madness, but so were so many things that followed.

[locosyndaco]

This is SPARTA!

XD...

[slackersnail]

This miniseries was so amazing. I wish someone would put the whole thing up.

[Mrcoolguy96]

If this was just a movie about things that never really happened than this wouldnt be so bad. But these things really happened, and that really gets to me.