This is a message to all of us Let me know that I'm not shame of my African roots they fight for our equal rights .. they die of honor respect ✊... whoever read this never forget who u are
tavea hughes yes, I also hate when people say I’ve learned enough, I’m interested in knowing as many of their stories as I can, they deserve to be read and understood from all sides.
I have always been interested in the history of families. My family is German, Irish, Cherokee, and Jewish and I have always had a fascination for Jewish and Cherokee culture. I think everyone should learn about their family and where their blood comes from like Kunta Kinte's descendants did. Like he said, we can never know it unless it's in a story. I didn't know about the Cherokee Trail of Tears until I read it and realized some of my ancestors had to have walked it.
I cry everytime I watch this emotional ending. It makes me realise how much my ancestors experienced alot of suffering in those days. The descendants of african people should be proud and happy today that if it weren't for our strong ancestors. We wouldn't be here today, I show my appreciation and gratitude for them and all my brothers and sisters 🙌✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽❤🥰
This part made me cry. Honestly it's just heartbreaking. You feel like mourning but it's too much for your body too handle. Rest in peace. No matter how hard it may be, in the end it will always be alright
Actually I thought the guy playing Chicken George was cute and his depiction was more realistic for a man with a White father and Black mother. He would have looked like that and I saw a picture of the real Chicken George once.
Don't be. One of my relations was John Bell Hood, a Confederate General and he hated Indians and probably owned slaves, but I am not him. To be honest, I don't think I would have liked him much as he was arrogant. His daughter, my great-great grandmother had to run away to narru my great-great grandfather who was full-blooded Cherokee Indian.
This film has touched me in so many ways. It's an incredible and heartbreaking film about the lineage and struggles of African-Americans. I'm African & my family comes from west Africa which is the main area that salves were captured and sold. And It makes me think, what if. What if my ancestors suffered the same pain and injustice that many captured African slaves did in the Americas, Caribbean, Britain, and South America? I could never even imagine. But watching this ending gets me very emotional because it shows how African Americans have come to be such a mixed heritage and even though their ethnic identity was taking from them long ago, their roots remain in Africa ✊🏾
This is for anyone. My ancestors were mostly German, but there is some Jewish and Cherokee Indian in my family tree. I studied the Cherokee Trail of Tears and it made me very emotional as my father's Cherokee relations had to have walked it, while my mother's Cherokee relations didn't.
Girl. Take an ancestry test! My family is from east Africa however I distant African American relatives meaning someone from my extended family was kidnapped and brought here.
Its heartbreaking. I live in Southampton England and we were guilty of so many disgusting acts. I still see stone pineapples on the gateposts of former slave businesses. It always makes me think of those innocent humans treated like merchandise.
I'm a 70s baby and grew up on the original roots. It was a good production, for the time. There is just something so profound with this remake...I just LOVE it. I had to purchase the boxed dvd set. More information from historical scholars, advanced technology, awesome cast...so much went into this series. I thank all involved for delivering. Lastly....HONOR YOUR ANCESTORS! 🌳❤
"The truth can never be known. It can only be told in a story. There once was a boy who was taken from his family and carried halfway around the world. He lived to start a new family. And in his journey, he became a hero for a new nation."
I absolutely adored the original series. I was 13 when I first saw it and am 24 now. I memorised every line and every scene of it. But this... This is something else... I have no words for the amount of power in this re-made series. Thank you
When l tell you, l thought I was the only one who memorized the '77 version. I was 11 when it premiered. Now 57, I still watch it on The Classic TV App. 🎉
All I can say is that anyone who still doesn't think slavery was evil, inhumane, and ungodly after watching this powerful miniseries has lost the right to call themselves human. And yes… I am quite aware that blacks sold other blacks into slavery as well but guess what? That doesn't make it any less evil, inhumane, and ungodly.
Slavery in other parts of the world was not the same as Slavery in America. When you think slavery in America you think chains, whips, lynching, horrible horrible stuff. When you think slavery in the Old World think of slavery that looked much more like indentured servitude and usually not because your skin colour was different.
Livingston Hampton they were forced to do it tho they didn't choose to remember u think some blacks had rights no they didn't have shit they could had that free paper but hmph they still not shit they had nothing they were forced to sell their own family friends everyone
I just say the transatlantic slave trade was bad not just America because majority of blacks were taken to South America specifically Brazil and I hate when people try to say slavery was everywhere it was never of that magnitude of people being "born" into it . Slaves were usually caught and sold but transatlantic your fate decided before you even existed
I think that all the time. Sometimes it leads be to believe there is no God. But, lately I've been doing research on my lineage and the origin of so called African Americans and the true Israelite. It's very eye opening to say the least. I feel there's hope for us now. Hopefully be alive experience the rebirth of who we really are as a people.
*Sometimes it leads be to believe there is no God. But, lately I've been doing research on my lineage and the origin of so called African Americans and the true Israelite* - That's what I've found interesting, too. The holy book slaveowners claimed to believe in, has, all of this time, exposed their lies and hypocrisy - "For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad" ...whether they want it to, or not. Can only imagine that's why they couldn't help themselves from gleefully calling American slavery against Black people their "peculiar domestick institution" built upon the back of "peculiar labor," as if it were a good thing, apparently unaware that the phrases exposed that even at their basest subconscious level, they knew it was actually peculiar because they were carrying it out against the very group of people the Bible calls the peculiar people, and God's peculiar treasure (Ex 19:5, Deu 14:2, 1 Peter 2:9). Looking around at current events, I can't help but think the awakening and rebirth you speak of, will be happening very soon. Perhaps not in the way people like Dr. Claud Anderson, Dr. Boyce Watkins, etc. envision, but certainly far better, as the fruits of which will not be taken from our people again. Wishing you well on your research and journey, and glad I'm not the only one who couldn't stop crying at this scene (I just was, actually lol). :)
Back when the original aired, I was in the 8th grade. We DID spend a week studying/discussing Roots. It was considered mandatory viewing - homework - for every student. And, I very much agree with you. It was an excellent lesson, a great idea. Definitely.
Watching about Alex Haley's family from all the way back in Africa to the present time always reminds us that each of our families have untold stories from centuries.
I think watching this programme would be good for people of all races. I’m white and I will admit that I don’t think I fully understood the degree of suffering black people have had to go through until I started looking into it all more closely. This programme in particular and also 12 Years A Slave really rammed it all home for me. You see through the eyes of the people who lived through this and it’s made me much more sympathetic to the struggles black people still face today and helped me understand the historical roots of those problems. Slavery left a long tail of damage in its wake and it stretches into the present.
Damn my people suffered. I just want To cry when I think of it. I actually do cry, a lot for their pain. But then I feel proud because they were strong to have endured and prevailed
Roots is probably the most significant television program/series that I have ever seen. It changed my life, back in the 70s. And this updated version is very well done. Powerful.
I watched this back in May when it first aired on the History channel. The ending really got to me because all I can picture is my family and ancestors. I did my own genealogy research a week before the premiere and the entire time I watched it brought everything I read about my ancestry and family history to life and felt so real. Truly a great mini series.
This programme and others liked it helped me as a white man to appreciate what black people have gone through and why there are still problems today. I will admit that before I looked into all of this more deeply, I was flippant and used to casually assume that it was all in the past. I was wrong, what black people went through continues to have an impact today. I don’t think I ever really came across black people telling their own stories in this way before and I am glad I listened and challenged my preconceptions.
When im young i can't stop to reading that book and after i read want to read again and again, after that im watching movies when ever im reading or watching i can't control my tear, im very proud to you and all of your family those who are carrying this long history and writing this book, im sure they'll glad and proud to you from Heaven.
Slaves, taken away from their family and mothers. This show is powerful, it tells us the cruelty and hate, my or maybe your ancestors. Beaten, whipped, killed. Just cause we wanted to be free.
Let us all try our best to promote the universal message of HOPE. Time has proven we all as individuals have unique skill sets in making our world better. We cant change the WRONGS of the past. We are all Americans that have and will continue to make the human experience much better. The other bad and ugly aspect of human nature, lets not allow it to overshadow the so many GOOD that keep hope alive. I'm from Liberia, West Africa and America has given me the chance to dream and to be great.
*I know this scene by heart* 🖤 *It is the most profound, beautifully crafted thing I have EVER seen committed to film & I still cannot watch it - or even think about it without tears. PHENOMENAL* 🏆 - *bravo to all involved in this reworked masterpiece* 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This makes me cry every time. I'm from the Caribbean and though I'm mixed with Kalinago (the indigenous people of my country), Chinese, East Indian, Portuguese and Irish. As a History major, I've never forgotten the struggle of all of my ancestors, including my African ancestors. Records of them still exist in my county. Some were born free coloured mullatos, and the others, like George, they were eventually able to buy their freedom after years of hard work. I am proud of all my ancestors but this series has given me a sort of tremendous gratitude and elation that I don't think I've ever felt at any other time. Thank you and may you rest in peace.
thank you for posting this here. I watch the whole series and unfortunately did not record the last minute and half of episode 4. it's a fantastic show. show I watch the original in the 70s which was very influential. in its way this is just as good or even a little bit better considering what it had to live up to. very moving at times as well..
Cried through much of this. I can't believe my ancestors were so ignorant and cruel. But generations have changed this. Kunta, you were amazing. You have inspired me. What strength! and Chicken George is such a babe😘 xx need the box set😎
Hats off to those African people who tolerated and faced so much of pain it brought tears to my eyes.cant imagine what traumatic and physical pain they had gone.their hardwork really paid if you see in sports,politics,film industry are mostly them .
Root Please follow your hearts make it your own this is all up to you give it your best remember I’m always here and enjoy it while it’s still last you guys incredible actors and actresses get out there and learn it you always I am so proud of you you really took effort and no matter how hard you guys try I am so darn proud of you just enjoy it while it’s the last sincerely Joe Myers
grand merci a Alex Harvey, hommage a toi si tu n'es plus de ce monde tu nous a rendu un enorme service merci a Kunta Kinte pour son courage sa lucidité.
Five years after emancipation, the former slaves moved back to the plantations and into the cotton and tobacco fields from 100 years… it was called sharecropping.
but how many of you guys visit in our mother's land in Gambia 🇬🇲 to knows what your roots not on movie but to visit the Gambia kunta family still live in Gambia
I really wish they could make statues of the slaves and put those in public display and the men and women who fought to end this wicked establishment instead of people like Jefferson and Washington who were nothing but racist slave owners. Kunta Kinte is a hero regardless what anyone thinks
You got that Damn right my dude, as a white person, I viewed all of the actions that a reasonable number of the whites done to blacks in America and in some other parts of the world as inhumane and morally evil, I respect what you say my man, keep telling the facts to everyone regardless of skin color or nation
This is the most moving scene I have ever seen . Shame on all of us who forget what our great great grandparents and those who came before them allowed to happen to human beings. Shame.
Muy buena parecida a una serie que dieron en mi país la esclava blanca nos lleva esto a observa las raíces mi hija es afrodecendiente pues su papá. Es de palenque y sus abuelos tambien aunque por muchos estigmas no quiere reconocer su descendencia estas historia hacen que valores sus raíces es hermosa
I am very sorry I missed this. I had no idea this was remade. I remember when the original came out and living in western Kentucky as a teenager heard a lot of the adults talking about the miniseries and the backlash, in their eyes anyway. About how a program like this can "stir up trouble." And that was putting it mildly, from the mother of an (at the time) friend. I always knew my father was racist. After all, I found this out after I came home from the local skating ring and asked him if I could go on a date with a boy I knew. When I mentioned he was colored, he had a fit. I didn't see him as colored but as a nice boy named Herbie. Who worked part-time as a D.J. at the skating ring. Anyway. I didn't think my soon-to-be-not-friend's mom would say, "All it takes is a show like that to stir up the blacks and get them mad." I have colored friends most of my life and I have never heard them say a bad thing about white people. Now, who is racist? I was taught in school that Kentucky was a neutral state in the civil war but I guess not. Racism is alive and well, at least in the 1970s, in Owensboro, KY.
As An half black dominican And half italian this ending maid me cry And letted me saw al of my people history through slavery And am Very proud that my nation was the first black nation in America(proud to be black)
Isaiah 53:5, he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed. For salvation, we just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in water for the removal of sins and filled with the Holy Ghost. Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled and rising again from the dead. That's what Acts 2:38 is. We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ... Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man, be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. Our salvation has to match up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away. Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st, John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church. It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, And they continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Don't get Titus 3:5 mixed up with James 2:14-26, about WORKS. One is a WORK of your OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS OR GOOD DEEDS and the other is a WORK OF FAITH. Titus 1:16, They profess that they know God; but in WORKS they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. If you believe in this message, be blessed by God in helping to spread it in the name of Jesus Christ so people can get saved the right way. God bless you
I’m African and unfortunately, the vast majority of us just don’t understand or know what happened to our brothers, sisters, cousins, parents when they got on those ships towards the new world. It’s movie like this that’s important to teach a valuable lesson that our African chiefs were wrong, slavemasters were wrong, the institution of slavery was wrong, and the Europeans powers that allow slavery to exist were wrong! Let’s be clear on these facts that 99% of Africans today had nothing to do with the slave trade and let’s be clear that the vast majority of white people had nothing to do with slavery. The problem that exist as of 2021 is the fact that ethnocentrism, racism, tribalism, prejudices, discrimination and hate that’s part of human nature, must be minimized by one towards other people, for there are people out there who have fallen victims to these human ills...making it difficult for them to put ENOUGH bread and butter on the table for them and their family members. The great news here is that we all have the power as individuals to change the world around us, to treat the next person with empathy --to treat others the way you will want to be treated, regardless of your social-economic status . In a nutshell, be kind and treat others with decency, while giving other people an opportunity to climb the economic ladder of life, in today’s society. In conclusion , all forms of inequalities continue to exist, almost everywhere....centuries and decades later! With self love, self preservation, safe communities and UNITY, our survival will continue to be ENSURED!!!Thank you. Please don’t forget to hit the Subscribe button to follow my channel here on RU-vid at Wes Smith LT. Be safe out there! The subscribe button: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fDjT6-8QHbc.html
