Roots: A New Vision for a New Generation | History

Why is the story of Roots still worth exploring? Levar Burton, Anika Noni Rose, Laurence Fishburne, and other members of the cast and creative team discuss the importance of introducing the power of Roots to a new generation. #Roots
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A four-night, eight-hour event series, "Roots" is a historical portrait of one family's journey through American slavery and their will to survive and preserve their legacy in the face of unimaginable hardship.
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[@MiaSophia777]

I am so happy they remade Roots. It's so important for this story to be told.

[@chrissiem3958]

I love LeVar Burton. I'm literate because of him....

[@johnmensah1163]

I love this history is too touching

[@broccoholicc2346]

Came here ‘coz of Regé-Jean :)

[@myfairytael947]

i just knew page was in here, mmm totally give it a shot for this

[@bms77]

Great show.. both the 77 version and this one

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏 Mr. Fishburn.

[@dianecoles5113]

Great remake!

[@timefortruth7084]

I like the remake more than the original

[@bms77]

Me too and not just because it’s newer.. the new chicken George is phenomenal!! The 77 version was good too but this one was just amazing.. great character, great father, great actor!

[@elizabethsherren2106]

Partly but important not to forget this history.

[@velliee1741]

I loved the New Version...

[@majortexas9369]

During history class when ever we got to the slavery unit they just gave us a packet and that was it

[@eamami1087]

I've learned the black history that isn't taught in school and it hasn't helped me one bit

[@G23-k5r]

Just remember Black history did NOT start with slavery.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

Knowing who your people are, where they came from, what they went through.... History is information. What YOU do with it is up to you.

[@brittanysimone4986]

Great cast! Looking forward to this :)

[@norahvoltaire2541]

Regé-Jean Page 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@itsmecassiej]

i agree thats why Black people have French, English, Irish, Spanish, and Portuguese last names.

[@davidmnaba3117]

This maybe unpopular and somewhat embarrassing to the white race and uncomfortable but it’s history and should be a constant that we should never get back to

[@UHFStation1]

It was largely plagiarized from another book character wise, but perhaps the circumstances are accurate.

[@rusty_spotted]

love hastings

[@alissonbonito462]

I love chicken George

[@tianaprince-nalwanga4375]

Alisson Bonito chicken George is hot no lie

[@sayitloudblcknproud]

@@tianaprince-nalwanga4375 Look at him now!

[@nflfangirl19]

@@sayitloudblcknproud fr!

[@bms77]

I know huh! I loved the 77 version but this 2016 chicken George is an OG.. love him.. great actor!! Great character

[@randomlol00XD]

Why are so many people disliking this video?

[@hasanx4637]

it;s also many blacks embarrassed about slavery. crying about too many slave movies.

[@kckdottboi]

+Adolf Himmler and what percentage of blacks at the time were slaves? 80%? can you step outside of your whiteness for a minute. stop being defensive and practice empathy? it's not about the slave owners? too deep huh? boy bye!

[@kckdottboi]

+Adolf Himmler God please bless this spiritually underdeveloped boy with the ability to create a paragraph that uses an argument for a topic sentence, followed by a claim and summed up with evidence a closing sentence. Hitler... your KZbin comment license is revoked..until you've gained further education! lol

[@bms77]

It’s all the slave owners from the series lol

[@Rita-wd6lr]

Because truth is better

[@shaylacoleman952]

I"m reading all the comments , you White folks are mad ......For what??????

[@TheTrueforeigner]

they are not white - they are government hired to create disinterest - usual strategy

[@queenisrael8158]

We are the Israelites God chosen people we are royalty people !!!

[@ILLGOOD]

HEBREWS our names were changed and the world knows their deceit. Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you. And....Psalm 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. Genesis @ And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. We started from Abraham, but our father is Jacob (Israel). Genesis 46:6-34 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him. HEBREWS what else do you need to know?!

[@stephpowell7648]

Why would I want to show my Kids this? I want to show them their ACTUAL history, the truth of their incredible heritage, not 'that they come from slaves'.

[@eskayh7734]

You've already reduced those very real people to a term that further dehumanizes and belittles them. They were hostages. Nothing shameful about it either. We're here because they chose to survive. There's more to their stories, of course, and those parts should be shown as well. But it's a lot of kids in the 2020s that are lost in the sauce and know next to nothing and behave as such.

[@notdryad]

WE WUZ KUNTA KINTE N SHEIT

[@menachemsachemrobotscowitz2794]

A "New Vision" of Alex Haley's own, somewhat factual, family genealogy. This is the HISTORY channel, so I'll assume that this will have a scene where ancient astronauts helped Kunte Kinte's people to build the pyramids.

[@may12553]

hahah.....Yeah, Ancient Alien Theorists believe that is exactly how the pyramids were built. Knute Kinte and his people did a fine job.

[@UHFStation1]

Best comment ever.

[@TroopSwordSkits]

AYO HOL UP

[@carleastafford704]

personally I like the old one much better this was too gory! however it was still a ok movie. 3 out of 5 stars.

[@taegotkash]

You like the old one cause it didn’t show blood when these slaves were whipped they bled. This was reality as shown in new version. You sound soft

[@chronicmilitarycollector9232]

YOUR NAME IS TOBY

[@TheTrueforeigner]

yawn yawn pawn pawn

[@gnormzz42]

OOGA BOOGA WHERE DA WHITE WOMEN AT

[@KeeperOfProphecies]

"A New Vision" but keeps the races the same. smdh It's 2016.

[@carleastafford704]

it's supposed to be educational and in reality it was this race. This is not offensive or wrong to make them all black and all that. it is to educate the people of today of what had happened back in the 16 and 17 hundreds!

[@Child_of_Amun]

Are you stupid, why would they make them a different race, that would LITERALLY be changing history!

[@john-waxerone6972]

Who cares!

[@TheTrueforeigner]

people who are consciously disengaging from ignorance...Next!

[@reynahpets7868]

1:11 _'It's time for this story to brainwash another audience & a new generation'_

[@reynahpets7868]

BuildafixTheSlayer hmmm......well I'll wait & see _how much_ attention they bring to that fact. Just mentioning some unnamed Black slave owner or showing a Black slave owner in one scene out of the entire series doesn't cut it because most people won't pick up on it or they will most likely dismiss it. Now if there is a recurring character that is a Black slave owner - kudos! Why? What's the difference? I'd be able to draw upon that character as an example of history. I'd be able to reference the modern "Roots" as an illustration of reality. I can still remember my great-grandma (1876- 1966 C.E.) tell us kids how great-granddad's father once had a Black slave owner & how _"not all whites can be trusted & some negroes are just as white on the inside"_. conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/ I'm just sick of the racist BLM narrative.

[@TheTrueforeigner]

yawn yawn