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Remember the TV miniseries Roots as a kid ?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:49 pm
Culturally, that was D-day, and we're the Germans
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:51 pm to OWLFAN86
That's deep. I don't know what it means though.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:54 pm to OWLFAN86
So when does Hiroshima and Nagasaki take place?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:56 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
quote:Not long after Hogan's Heroes defeat the Nazis.
So when does Hiroshima and Nagasaki take place?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 7:57 pm to OWLFAN86
Then the idea for us is to bleed the enemy so hard that they question whether they actually won.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:00 pm to Champagne
Way outside the Los Angeles area in a city called Fontana they had 1 drive in theater there. One time they had a showing of Roots there. They played the movie backwards so it had a happy ending.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:03 pm to HubbaBubba
But there are no Nazis.

This post was edited on 12/5/25 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:05 pm to OWLFAN86
quote:I wasn't a kid but yes. I remember James Earl Jones holding up young Kunta Kinta toward the stars
Remember the TV miniseries Roots as a kid ?
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:37 pm to OWLFAN86
I have seen it and always wondered why there was not ever a white version of Roots. I would love to learn who sold the white people to Ghenghis Khan.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:41 pm to OWLFAN86
I don't remember much (too young) but I can see it as sowing the first seeds of suicidal empathy.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:48 pm to OWLFAN86
I thought a reboot was coming. You know, Karens leading the charge to free and educate the ''poor souls'' to a better life because of their sacrifices 
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:48 pm to Huey Lewis
quote:
That's deep. I don't know what it means though.
That's okay, neither does Owlie.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:52 pm to OWLFAN86
I remember it as an adult ... Kuta Kente or whatever.
But the turning point toward the f-ing mess we're in now was ...

But the turning point toward the f-ing mess we're in now was ...

Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:59 pm to OWLFAN86
I was in 7th grade when it aired and i was attacked more than once randomly by black kids i didn't even know at my school. No way to know for sure, but I always suspected that the show poisoned relations between whites and blacks at the school. Never experienced anything like it before that but I did after.
Posted on 12/5/25 at 8:59 pm to OWLFAN86
Slave owners were not trying to take over the world and destroying anyone who got in their way. So, the two are not anything close.
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