Support NeoGAF

[Beerman462]

So I mentioned to a co-worker that there is a Roots remake coming. His response...

"This is going to set them off" I said who? He said "Black Lives Matter"

This turned into a pretty good argument that branched to many topics. (He is a Fox News junkie)

So do you think the Roots remake will improve the current climate, make it worse or no change?

 

[Plasmid]

"Wow, when can we get a white roots?"

 

[Beerman462]

"Wow, when can we get a white roots?"

Christopher Columbus part 1

 

[capitalCORN]

"Wow, when can we get a white roots?"

When the manage to untangle the farce that is 'western history'.

 

[onipex]

So I mentioned to a co-worker that there is a Roots remake coming. His response...

"This is going to set them off" I said who? He said "Black Lives Matter"

This turned into a pretty good argument that branched to many topics. (He is a Fox News junkie)

So do you think the Roots remake will improve the current climate, make it worse or no change?

Did you let him know that Underground was on TV already?

 

[Escape Goat]

Youre asking what cultural impact a 2016 tv remake will generate?

No impact whatsoever.

 

[KevinCow]

(He is a Fox News junkie)

And you tried to have a reasonable discussion with him about race relations?

Anyway, this isn't the '70s when there were like 3 channels to choose from. The Roots remake isn't going to have a fraction of the impact of the original Roots.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I doubt it has much of an impact at all, regardless of it's quality and certainly nowhere near that the original did.

 

[Stinkles]

They're remaking roots?

Well won't that just store up racial tensions?

Typical liberal Hollywood. Create racial tension and discussion decades after institutional racism ended.

 

[Beerman462]

Did you let him know that Underground was on TV already?

No. I had never heard of it. I basically asked what he thought of BLM and it turned into an attack on protesters that had burned down a Wal-Greens at some point. Essentially mad at any negative coverage by Fox.

 

[Beerman462]

And you tried to have a reasonable discussion with him about race relations?

Anyway, this isn't the '70s when there were like 3 channels to choose from. The Roots remake isn't going to have a fraction of the impact of the original Roots.

This seems most likely and yes I try to have reasonable conversation with opposing views. At one point it got to welfare and how he thought that recipients should be drug tested. I said why, he said, because drugs are illegal. Again I said why? The illegality of drugs is a form of big government he should be opposed to and he pretty much shut down.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Birth of a Nation will have a bigger impact among the right-wing, because of The Oscars, and Nat Turner.

 

[Aiustis]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

I think the part in Birth of a Nation where Nat kills the lil white kids will have a bigger impact than some fake slave narrative rehash

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Slavery hasn't existed in the US for over 100 years, who would this set off exactly and why?

 

[Toothless]

I just don't see the point of Roots remake, or any miniseries this year tbh, after People v. OJ. Can't see it getting topped.

 

[Sunster]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

-_____-

 

[Cipherr]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

What?

 

[bobbychalkers]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

This.....is too accurate.

 

[old manatee]

There is no way that 2016 Roots is going to be the phenomenon that 1977 Roots was.

 

[SheSaidNo]

Reminds me of that sketch on Bob and David - Better roots
https://vimeo.com/146016004

 

[SeanC]

It's not going to make the huge splash the original mini series did so the possibly-racist co-worker can rest easy. The original came right on the heels of the #1 Novel in the country for the better part of the year with an author that won a Pulitzer in an era where event/must-watch TV was relevant. It was also in the wake of a massive civil-rights movement and African Americans trying to find, reform, discover or just stake their claim for a cultural identity.

 

[old manatee]

It's not going to make the huge splash the original mini series did so the possibly-racist co-worker can rest easy. The original came right on the heels of the #1 Novel in the country for the better part of the year with an author that won a Pulitzer in an era where event/must-watch TV was relevant. It was also in the wake of a massive civil-rights movement and African Americans trying to find, reform, discover or just stake their claim for a cultural identity.

YOU FORGOT TO MENTION LEVAR BURTON.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Seen the people on the History Channel's Facebook bitching about them premiering it on Memorial Day?

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Trailer I saw a little while back looked pretty good, but your co-worker can let his balls re-descend. BLM won't come for him in the night.

Seen the people on the History Channel's Facebook bitching about them premiering it on Memorial Day?

lmao

 

[Zekes!]

I just hope it's good

 

[EulaCapra]

It'll be broadcasting on History Channel, A&E, and Lifetime.

The people most affected by the remake will be the ones trying to find out if they even have an A&E channel.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

This is airing on the damn History channel. Ain't gonna do shit.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

So I mentioned to a co-worker that there is a Roots remake coming. His response...

"This is going to set them off" I said who? He said "Black Lives Matter"

This turned into a pretty good argument that branched to many topics. (He is a Fox News junkie)

So do you think the Roots remake will improve the current climate, make it worse or no change?

Looks like Roots is setting off white people.

 

[phaonaut]

Anyone making a thread for roots?

 

[freenudemacusers]

Will it be in 3D?

 

[Discotheque]

Anyone making a thread for roots?

Whoever does for the love of God subtitle it "Return of the King (Kunta)"

 

[DrForester]

Curious to see this. It's a historical account, so they can't really "update it for modern times". I've seen Levar Burton talking it up on Twitter, and he's one of the producers, so I hope it will be good.

 

[ExVicis]

"Wow, when can we get a white roots?"

I basically consider Forest Gump that.

 

[Kallor]

Is OJ simpson gonna have a football cameo in this one too?

 

[phaonaut]

Whoever does for the love of God subtitle it "Return of the King (Kunta)"

Thats good.

Well if no one speaks up, I'll make one before monday.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

As bizarre as this sounds, this is exactly the mentality some will take.

 

[Mental Atrophy]

It's race baiting them. Slavery was 400 years ago and the liberal media just keeps reminding black people to keep them slaves to the democrats.

Found the time traveler. Please tell me about the wonders of the 2260s. Is there a unified world government yet? Have we explored beyond the Sol system? Did they ever find Obama's Kenyan birth certificate? Half-Life 3?

 

[Ordlan]

Curious to see this. It's a historical account, so they can't really "update it for modern times".

They can't, but they can select a narrative that's analogous to current race relations. I'm pretty interested to see what they have to say.

 

[Mr. X]

I want an accurate film depicting Jim Crow Era South pre-Civil Rights Movement from the black perspective.

 

[wenis]

Whoever does for the love of God subtitle it "Return of the King (Kunta)"

"King Kunta has got the power of the yams that be".

 

[Jonm1010]

This is airing on the damn History channel. Ain't gonna do shit.

I hate to say it but this is probably right.

It will likely make some noise within certain circles but I doubt it garners too wide of an audience or conversation.

 

[phaonaut]

I hate to say it but this is probably right.

It will likely make some noise within certain circles but I doubt it garners too wide of an audience or conversation.

Its airing on 4 different networks, LIFE, A&E, HIST, LMN. Not as big if it aired on network tv, but looks like they put a bit of money behind this.

 

[Doctor Ironic]

This turned into a pretty good argument... (He is a Fox News junkie)

Are you sure about that

 

[120v]

i don't really see it making the same impact it had 40 years ago

 

[Infinite]

Slavery hasn't existed in the US for over 100 years, who would this set off exactly and why?

That's a loaded or rather a heavy question. The thread itself carries a lot of implications with it but the important ones being current race relations are shit, slavery itself still hasn't been unpacked and we are still dealing with its effects.

 

[Cocaloch]

When the manage to untangle the farce that is 'western history'.

What on god's green earth does this even mean?

Curious to see this. It's a historical account, so they can't really "update it for modern times". I've seen Levar Burton talking it up on Twitter, and he's one of the producers, so I hope it will be good.

My understanding, as a non-specialist, is that the original was not particularly historically accurate especially with regards to Africa. They could, and I don't believe for a second they will, update it to fit the sources better.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

wait the roots remake is real?

I thought it was only a skit in With Bob and David