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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Are we talking about Irish indentured servants or folks brought over in chains and sold at the auction?
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Missed it too. That response was loaded and ready to go. Think poates has had someone try to sling white guilt his way before. That's not what this thread is about.
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Are you saying exist as Americans or just not exist? Either way if you gave their ancestors a choice of having the existence that blacks had in this country with racism and the early to mid (late) 20th century, I'd bet they'd probably not choose to have gone through that for the opportunity to...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Deer Lowered between this and Crome's post saying slavery was a blessing in disguise for blacks is making this a thread I want one more post in before it's locked.
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Dutch, no one on this board is getting their history from Hollywood. Some getting their news from Fox might be a different story. But I think we're both getting tired telling each other what they're saying and telling each other what they should think. Thanks for at least not letting the post...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Dutch, for a guy getting his panties in a wad about putting words in people's mouths that's exactly what you're doing. I said I'm not watching it. Not that I never saw the original. Sure there's some stuff in Birth of a Nation that was accurate, however the entire intent is pro-white and...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    I was stating that Douglas's book coincides with similar story lines to what we see in Roots. Thus, the accounts that you are implying are Hollywood exaggerations simply aren't. There a mirroring what we know from Douglas's accounts are real history. You've implied that parts of the story are...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    The direction of this thread is nothing I didn't expect, but still a little alarming. This thread is likely full of those who are mad at Obama for apologizing for something that happened in 1945, but dismiss the hatred and institutional enslavement and racism towards blacks that existed up until...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    I was talking about an account of slavery from an actual slave. Again, I'll wait for the more specific things you're implying that Roots was exaggerating.
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    It was a wretched time in American history that helps demonstrate just how primitive of a society we still were. American Indians, Chinese, Blacks, and Immigrants in general were all treated incredibly poorly. There was no regard for the poor or the non majority. I'm from Charleston. I love to...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Sooo there weren't families forcibly split up on the auction block, cages put on slaves heads, slaves whipped tied up, slaves dropping dead in the fields from being overworked, regular rapings etc? Let's go to Frederick Douglas's "Narrative of the life of a Slave" where he in later life regrets...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Have you ever read the articles of secession for our state? They literally are all about protecting South Carolina's states rights to have slavery. This isn't about taxation without representation. It was about protecting the slave trade with the proliferation of slaves in the south after the...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    Agreed, slavery wasn't that bad. I mean a lot of them got to sleep indoors and were fed and stuff. Stupid propaganda with fake accounts of slavery. Frederick Douglas was full of crap right?
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    What are you even trying to say. The OP was talking about how it was a strong picture into how bad it was. What else needs to be added to that which doesn't sound like apologetics for explaining away how it was just a part of the times. Are we going to do that with Hitler? "Well, son it was an...
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    "Roots" has been hard to watch.

    ITT we'll see a lot of people trying to distract from how terrible it was. "it wasn't just the south" "Africans sold them into slavery" "slaves didn't have it that bad" Who cares? It WAS terrible and it's terrible for everyone, there's no "Yea, but" on this one without exposing yourself as a tool.
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