Sure they are

Yes, i also believe this part of the movie...have been doing so since my childhood I kept it in mind: in French version we watched in Cameroon in the 1990,,,"Les chaines, c'est pas bon pour les Nègres, Violon:!''.

I mean if the chain fits lol

​@@Spooky_515 smh....

“Lawd, you sho is some mighty child”

😔

Spare me

Why?

Ugh. This comment is just awful. Just... awful

@@impalapoppa4414 Sad words have so much power over you. It was posted to pay homage to the actor and the character.

too bad it was all made up

Sam stone what the hell do u mean all made up. SLAVERY WAS A LIVING HELL. HAVE SOME RESPECT

George Cramer He meant the actual story was not true, but this could of happened anyways

Yes

George Cramer q

You realize this is a completely fake movie ? Fiddler probably never existed. But look at the difference between the 1977 version & the 2016 version. Fiddlers life was completely different and he died under completely different circumstances.

@@jacksonheathen2092 Yes Sir, I'm aware the stories are suspect , but I love it :) i'm just drawn by emotion by that scene and context. 2016 version was indeed very different and I guess more deeper in some respects ..

@@peter-jamesmmbago8721 Yes, I suppose they were both emotional dramas about slavery. But at best, Roots is a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people and embellished to sell to a TV audience. In fact the author Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for this mini-series. Personally, I preferred the original. But I'm not really a huge fan of reboots. If something was done well the first time, then maybe it should be left alone and it's time for a new story to be told. I was however pleased to notice LeVar Burton made a brief appearance in the 2016 version as an older slave in the caged wagon who stares at the new Kunta Kinte. It would have been great if Burton had played the part of Fiddler this time instead of Forest Whitaker.

Who you think told on kunta in real life

👌👌👌👌👌

Nicola Taylor It was remade a few years back

@@joewhitehead3 the remake was trash.

@@atarbuck3452 I’ve heard it was good

@@joewhitehead3 Exactly. The difference between the original and the 2016 version are prolific.

TSean Powell Oh, I see what you mean now.

le code KFET ELIZEE

U crazy he said me not kunta he said for me chain still on my brother but it's in your mind House slave

Tim Powell there was also an element of selfishness from Fiddler. He had a better life than some of the other slaves and did not want to give that up.

Kunta stayed with fiddler til the end when fiddler died

RIP Louis Gossett Jr.

Me too 😢. POWER packed.

Why?

@@Kazemilover-12345 Because I found it so funny that I laughed so hard that I cried. Why else.

@@kings17court really? Damn you have a dark heart. These niggas went through hell and you are laughing at their pain

😖real talk

Zeko Cocoa yesssssssss

Not all African was slave

Nakma Abdi ik

Schooling is indoctrination not education.

Exactly

Edythe Weeks I wouldn't call them human rights

ok professor. Thanks

@Edythe Weeks what human rights would that be? African tribes took slaves all the time, some they sold to the Europeans, some they kept. Africans didn't recognize human rights even amongst their own people!

Jeff Burnham the English took Irish people as slaves, clearly Europeans weren’t cognisant of human rights since they are responsible the longest and most brutal period of human captivity in history!

Agreed!

Roots is completely fake. The author (Alex Haley) was successfully sued for plagiarism over his writings that he based this mini-series on. At best, it's a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people and embellished by Hollywood to sell to a TV audience.

No. It's not true. The author Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his writings that he based this mini-series on.

Except this is movie is completely fake.

@@jacksonheathen2092 nice troll

@@OGmemegenerator Why am I the troll ? Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over Roots. He even stole the material from a white author. You have internet access. So check it out for yourself. But even if there were shreds of truth in the story. It's still largely a work of fiction embellished to sell to a TV audience. Even the 1977 and 2016 versions are quite different.

I was in 4th grade too

@@OGmemegeneratorit is tho

blade0954 bujica D

true

blade0954 yessssssssss queen

Still funny 40 years later.

During the time of European slave trade, more blacks were being tortured, slaughtered and enslaved by dominant African tribes such as Mbundu and Chokwe and others, than by the white man.

It is performance but slavery still pains us. We shall never forget the barbarism done on us innocently

@@walusunguzimba7739 what about black on black crime?

Cha-la head Cha-la it’s so shocking

It’s real but it also has a lot of heart

This movie is fake.

@@jacksonheathen2092 The book had some plagarism, but slavery happened. And horrible things too evil to show on television. Be grateful you're getting this watered down version.

@@mowthpeece112 years a Slave and Birth of a Nation makes Roots look like an after school program Either way Roots still rocks

Me to it's my favourite aswell

Reading railroad

UKposts was made in 2005 though

Yea u have a point but also understand a difference tween us in the field n in the house fiddler would be in the house (sell out) kunta was not but on the contrary fiddler wud have also been born into this as kunta was not thats all he knows hence "wat it like to be free"

Only tears is enough for an award

this is real story

really good actors fake story though

@@sambacomedy6376 Not really. I'm not saying slavery wasn't real. But this is just a fake movie.

I'm trying to figure out if and when to share it with my 12 year old son.

I don’t think he made it far tho

Keep on crying. This isn't real. It was a movie.

​@@jacksonheathen2092 It's still a compelling story/work of fiction. Haven't you ever been emotional over a movie or TV-Series?

@@Johnnybomb1 Yes, I'll give you that. It was still a compelling miniseries and had a lot of great actors in it too. Personally, I don't really get very choked up over movies. But my point is that Alex Haley was a fraud. He stole much of his material for Roots from a white author named Courlander and was successfully sued for plagiarism over it. Yet plenty of people still think of Roots as some kind of fact based documentary.

@@jacksonheathen2092it still happened in the past. Slaves tried to escape plenty of times some did some died these are true events that happen in the past.

It’s the cruel and grim details that are seen only on the surface, yet, just heartbreaking to see how they must have felt! The vicious reality of the domination and power for free labor and to conquer.

@@zahraanaama4028 true

@@zahraanaama4028 good day to you..!

Traducir al español

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Ditto!

Man sed forgive , aint no forgiveness!! Dere time will come

This is completely fake.

That’s in Part 3. This is when he gets whipped and finally says his name is Toby

It was a fictional movie.

He should have just had the Enterprise beam him back up.

@Zanda Williams, wrong.

Well for rapist, serial killers, and low life

For lions because im scared of them

@@princelevi3733 you took the words out of my mouth

And ALL lives matter, right? SMFH!!

Louis Gossett Jr is 85 year old now. So he's aged a little bit. But I admit that I have a hard time guessing the age of African Americans.

here i am 2020

Not really.

I hate Fiddler and Toby.😡😡😡😡😈

@@jacksonheathen2092i meant like in terms of acting it was emotional 🙏🏿

@@doopiedoo8915God Bless You 🙏🏿

@@ashamirmohammed4165 Britain had plenty of slaves throughout their global empire for many years after.

@@ashamirmohammed4165 I guess you don't know that Brazil has slavery until 1888, or that Saudi Arabia had it until 1962.

Good point.

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@ Larinzo Allen, LMAOOOOOOOO!! So true! Well spotted & called !!

C'est vous vous parlez mal déjà arette de parler pcq vous vous vendez entre vous noirs contre noirs j'entends toujours un noir dire à un autre noir "espèce de vendu" chose que aussi on sait quand à commencé mais qui finit toujours pas comme on peut le constater dans le film déjà allez résoudre ce problème après allez résoudre les autres vous êtes racistes entre vous

What abuot thiear religion and political life am african

a Jackson ain’t that some shit SMDH