God bless u Alex. Roots the tv series + then especially the book literally changed my life. Can’t ever thank u enough - the older I get the bigger the debt to u I realise I owe. Rest easy man. You’re forever a legend
Full of cliffhangers just like Captain Marvel and the Lone Ranger in the old theaters I’ll tell you how old is big mansion it’s nothing but money in the bottom of it all
This is a Man I greatly respect and admire. And his story telling of History was marvelous and absolutely riveting. Listen to your elders children They have stories to tell you That without these stories being told - it is indeed like a library burning down - history lost. Dear Sir Thank you Rest in Peace🙏
GOD BLESS U !!!U ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN OF ALL TIME !! I FIRST SEEN ROOTS IN THE 4th grade it blew me away it was amazing the funny thing my Dad gave my sister the name KIZZY I WENT HOME AND SAID MY SISTER WAS A SLAVE NO ONE KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT THEY LAUGH AND WHEN I TOLD THEM MY DAD SAID HE GAVE MY SISTER THAT NAME HE THOUGHT SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE MOVIE AND MY SISTER WAS BORN THE SAME YEAR THE MOVIE CAME OUT 💯🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️ MR. HALEY U HAVE SHOW US ANOTHER WORLD IF U DID NOT PUT ROOTS AND QUEEN AND OTHERS BLACKS WOULD NOT KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF BEING BLACK U SHOWED US WE ARE SOMEBODY AND GOD IS NUMBER ONE …. THANK U THANK U 🙏🏽 ❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯
My youngest brother who now works for WSSU actually got to talk with Alex Haley years ago. He really enjoyed his discussion with him. My baby brother is one of the best folks ever and so was Alex Haley.
I watched Roots the movie and read Roots the book. I cried through most of the movie. Roots opened up my mind, and I wonder--what's the real story about what really happened to my ancestors ?
What an awesome human being, he accomplished so much in his life time. Thanks for everything that you contributed to this world Alex Haley. Rest in paradise legend
I knew slavery existed, but I had no clue the horrors it really was until I was 12. Roots hit the TV. I cried through most of it, angry through the rest with moments of happiness and asked lots of questions to any adult at my school who would listen. I still don't understand why it has ever existed 😢
Hatred towards people with 'Black' skins! The most terrible thing is how so-called Christians could and can say they love Jesus, attend church every Sunday, then hate people with black and brown skins. Do you know that during the Apartheid era in South Africa, Black people were told by the Afrikaners, that they were not created by God! Only so-called white people were created by God! What an abomination against the Word of God. Jahweh CREATED EVERY HUMAN, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR SKIN COLOUR!! No one has ever seen God. How do we know His skin is not Pitch Black? We will only see on Judgement Day, when He comes down on the clouds. Jesus was not a white Jew. His skin colour was brown!
Slavery existed in America primarily due to economic factors. This system was supported by social, legal, and political structures that dehumanized African people and justified their enslavement to maintain economic profitability and societal hierarchy.
The book " Roots" opened our minds, thoughts & opinions of the Black Afro-Americans that in all of our school history books either couldn't or wouldn't dare print & publish, Alex Haley did accomplish successfully. Beautiful documentarian.
I cannot tell you how much this has touched me. As a writer, I enjoy hearing the process that other writers engage but Mr. Haley had such a uniqueness to his works and his thought process. I can only hope one day, I can do the same. May he continue to be a griot and RIH always.
One of the best articles that I ever read by Mr. Haley, was published in Writer's Digest. He said: I consider writing one of the great professions of the world. I list it right along with medicine and law. if I could pick any profession on the face of this earth, I would still be a writer. He went on to say: If you're a writer, no matter what your level of education, you are a professional person.
I got an opportunity to talk to him and meet him at The Historical Little Rock Central High School where he was speaking about all the extensuve research he was doing for a book about his family which became " ROOTS" "QUEEN" and other true stories about his family's ROOTS from Africa! We talked face to face and he gave me good advice and his autograpg. This happened in 1973 but ,more likely in 1974'.
@@yourfinalhiringagency3890 On every documentary channel of Alex Haley, you blacken his name! Alex owned up and paid the other writer a huge amount of money! Why don't you grow up! You must have a very low IQ! An infant-adult mind! Alex Haley was a brilliant writer! May his soul rest in peace! Blessings and aroha to all his family!
It was 1979 and I was just entering the League bright eyed and eager! I knew Didley! By the time I left and Mr. Jordan retired, I knew I was somebody special! Ahh yeah, the league days of old when a black business could franchise into wealth! Thank you Mr. V. Jordan! Wow! Wow, 62nd and York, New York! Hey EBBY booty! I loves y’all! Thank God for NY!
Fun fact: Levar Burton recently discovered that he has a white great-grandfather, and let's just say that he was NOT happy because it was too close of a relation
When he was in Washington going throuhg the microfiche, he didn't see the name of Kunta Kinte. He saw the name of his great grandfather Tom Murray the blacksmith, his wife Irene, their daughters who were the great aunts, and the youngest of them was Elizabeth whom he used to call Aunt Liz. His grandma Cynthia hadn't been born yet. This was in the census records of Alamance County, North Carolina.
My favorite author. I read ROOTS, QUEEN and THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X. ROOTS was my favorite book and I have read hundreds. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X is the only book that I read twice. Creative writer!
Oh my goodness, that movie roots! It was everything However, during that era, there were a nasty, political atmosphere taking place in JA, between Edward Sega and Micheal Manley, Manley had made arrangements for roots to be on TV Suddenly there were talks about how roots, will cause an awareness among people, so it was decided that it would not be shown on television, only for people to realized that Edward Sega was the cause to stop it, based on advice, out of America, I’m still sick of the many lies, that the then politicians have been using to ruined the minds of people, generation after generations, in JA, thanks for such an amazing documentary, until this day, I’m yet to see that movie, roots! Big respect to Alex Haley
In 1977 Alex Haley lost a plagiarism lawsuit sighting he had copied heavily from "The African" by Harold Courlander (a white author) Haley also, later in life, admitted "Roots" wasn't as true as he had claimed and that he "embellished" things because he wanted young black kids to have a folk hero to inspire them. The book (and subsequent tv miniseries) was not even remotely true or historically accurate.
Yes but even though he might have had good intentions, he plagiarized another’s work and he did lie. He accepted accolades for things that were not true.
Did you watch (and Listen to) this video? What does the Bible (and Old People) tell us about Gossip Mongering? Sorry you are too bored and lazy to do your own research.😒
Sorry, overall I'm really enjoying this. But there's one sour apple in the bunch and that's the guy with the black and white checkered shirt and the horse teeth who keeps staring into the abyss when he talks he adds virtually nothing to the content and in fact it's just an annoyance in my humble opinion.
Amen brother anybody with a brain could see through that it’s all Hollywood I guess she had been living during those times they needed something to rally around marching 34:06 through the alleys With sticks chanting roots roots roots roots to me it was just one means of Replacing one brand of heat with another I’m sure a lot of money was made off of it a great man once said love one another as I have loved you
While slavery was a factual and horrible historical event, it’s a well established fact that most of Haley's 'factual' claims in Roots were a work of fiction. In 1978, Alex Haley was sued for plagiarism for stealing the plot and storyline from The African, a book written by Harold Courlander. Haley paid Courlander a cash settlement. Also, Murray Fisher was the ghost writer of Roots, so it was Fisher's excellent writing style that Haley took credit for. In 1976 when Roots was first published, Haley claimed in promotional interviews and articles that Roots was a factual account of his own ancestry, based on years of genealogical research. He claimed Kunta Kinte was his direct ancestor. However genealogists have easily disproven Haley's claims, showing that Toby Waller was not Kunta Kinte, and Chicken George was not Tom Lea's son. In fact, outside of Haley's 'oral tradition' there is no historical evidence that proves Kinte or George ever existed. Positioning Roots as ancestral fact, was a good way to sell books but basically Haley lied to his own community for money. There is a lot of other misinformation in Roots, and none of that diminishes or justifies slavery of Africans in America. However, Roots served only to anger the black community and caused greater guilt and more division, by making it appear that slavery was purely a white man crime, when we know this is completely false. At the time Roots was set in more Africans were being captured, enslaved, sold and killed by dominant African tribes than by Europeans. 90% of the 12 million Africans shipped to America were sold to the Europeans by powerful, opportunistic African tribes.
0 seconds ago Oh well, just as greedy and opportunistic as the 'White' American Plantation owners who treated the 'Black ' slaves worse than animals. They were not given food, or clothes. They Had to work bare feet in freezing cold weather. Girls as young as 10, 11 and 12 years old were raped by the Plantation owners. The slaves were never compensated for all the beautiful buildings that they built on the Plantations including their hard work on the cotton fields, during the week. They were not allowed to attend church to worship God, and neither were their children given any education. Children as young as 5years old, (Mere babies), had to work on the cotton fields. When any slaves escaped, they were nearly flogged to death after they were captured! That is how much the plantation owners hated the 'Black' people! Yet, the slave owners called themselves Christians! But there is going to be a JUDGEMENT DAY, and then we will see what God is going to do to them, because GOD CREATED ALL MEN EQUAL! He is a God of Justice! SLAVERY OF OTHER HUMANS IS EVIL!!!
