Okay. So I woke up this morning with a bug up my ass. My husband and I watched the New Roots mini-series which ended last night.
Wiki gave his bio. All of the story about Kuna Kinte was unable to be substantiated. They said it was highly unlikely that he would have found the village his people came from. The only actual information that was available was after the Civil War and at best, even that was sketchy.
It was a well crafted tale. At the beginning, I had asked my husband how Haley had known any of this. He told me about the custom of the story telling narrative. Which I thought, okay. Makes sense. Although, since nearly every member of his family knew how to write, as I have now been informed, it makes less sense.
JUST MY OPINIONS:
I'm not going to critique the series. This is just my gut reaction and thinking about what I saw.
I cried at the moving pieces. I felt bad for the family when they were separated so many times.
I kept looking for some decent white people. Apparently the only one was a female spy who got hung by her husband for her troubles. Well, the other two who may have been "decent", were too weak to speak out. And so what I saw was a one-sided, anti-white story that to my mind, would only create more divisiveness that there currently is. And rather than improving over the past several years, race relations have just been going downhill. Why throw gasoline on a fire?
who was risking their lives to get slaves to the north?
Do you remember that I have referred to myself as a Liberal Jew? That means that I take the side of the under dog, because that's what my people had been since their inception. I have worked against racism. When I was younger I worked for a Hispanic candidate, and I stood on a corner in front of a store to get people to sign up to vote as Democrats when Obama was running for his first term. I have fought my own inclinations and worked at not being prejudiced. I certainly have never been a racist. I have told people that I wouldn't tolerate the use of certain words nor ethnic jokes in my presence. So, how is it that I am now up in arms at this show?
TIMING IS EVERYTHING:
I of course, have no idea how long it took for this project to come into fruition, although it was done by the son of the original producer. He said that his son said the story didn't resonate for him, so his dad wanted the "new generation" to hear the story again. Or maybe as Freud would say, it was due to a son's wanting to outdo his father. But what do I know? Maybe it didn't resonate because 40 years later, we are not the same nation.
| Ferguson MO. |
In any event, it was made and aired this year. The situation that has been very disturbing to our country has been related to black men being shot and killed by mostly white police officers. There has been rioting and unrest and the police, not that I'm saying they are innocent, have been taking the brunt of the rage.
I do believe that there are places where the police are executing people and they should be punished. I also believe that the majority of police are not executing innocent people. I think that many of our police are most likely sociopaths, but so are many of our politicians. However, since we are apparently basically uncivilized, we need someone to keep the law and order.
I'M NOT A HISTORIAN AND THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED, BUT DOE WE NEED TO DRAG IT UP NOW?
WHAT RELIGION WERE AFRICAN TRIBES BACK IN 1720?
This was taken from the Gambian Information site.
The Mandinka of Gambia are the largest ethnic group of people in the country. They are sometimes referred to as the Mandingo, Malinke or Mande and make up 42% of the population of Gambia.
They are widespread throughout the whole of West Africa particularly in Mali, Senegal and Guinea. In the second half of the 19th century the Mandinka converted to Islam until today it can be said that 99% are Muslims. Their musical hallmark is the Kora followed by the Balafon which griots and 'Jalis' use to narrate Mandinka history.
THEREFORE, It would not have been possible for Kunta to have been a Muslim. His people didn't become Muslims for 100 years. Why put that in the story when our country is so anti-Muslim? Are they trying to bait someone?
| west African religious ritual |
what about what's going on in Africa right now?
As I write this, there are atrocities being committed in Africa. Tribe against Tribe. I do not believe that we can imagine living the lives of these people.
I am mostly uninformed by choice. I have probably mentioned that I have chosen to live in a cave when it comes to news. I don't like to know what is going on in this insane world since it only upsets me, and I have learned there is very little I can do about it. I have supported a different woman in Africa through the Women for Women foundation for quite a few years. One person at a time. That's all I can do.
I can't bear to know what goes on because I hurt inside because I don't understand the hate. Although, from my rant, you'd think I was a hater.
I'm not. What I am is fearful. I am afraid that we are being manipulated to hate. It's really easy to do since the "roots" of fear are genetic.
DOES ANY ONE ETHNIC GROUP OR RACE HAVE MORE OF A RIGHT THAN ANOTHER TO CLAIM THAT THEIR SUFFERING WAS WORSE?
Again, just my view, but Hell no. Just look at our good allies, the British. I've been watching Outlander which gives an account of how the English treated the Scottish. And oh. I do recall when I was growing up, how the IRA, Irish Republican Army was still trying to get the British out of their country.
| Charles, I'd like a piece of the Mediterranean, if you please. |
The Imperial Nation of England was quite an Empire in its time. Even in the New Roots, they did show a bit of the Revolutionary War. Of course for the slaves it was ironic since the Americans wanted their freedom and couldn't see that having slaves was pretty much the same thing. Well, not really.
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A TIME WHEN SLAVERY DID NOT EXIST?
I'm going out on a limb and taking a guess. I'd venture the answer is no. And, if you think about it, we're all still slaves. Slaves to wages, mortgages, car payments, jobs, families, you name it. No one is "free".
WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH THE PRICE OF EGGS?
Not a damned thing. I'm just ranting. I am sick of watching the world fall apart. I'm worried about my own people getting wiped off the face of the earth. Also, why is it that Blacks hate Jews. I know I've been told one reason for that. Allegedly it was because they were the only white people the blacks had contact with after the slave days. They were the shop keepers and landlords. I don't know if that's true or not.
If anything, the Jewish communities I knew, were the ones who fought hardest to help the Blacks obtain their civil rights. A friend of mine lost her cousin who was one of the four boys who "disappeared" in Mississippi. And yet they hate us more than any other whites. Okay, maybe they hate the skin heads more. Well, fear them more.
ENOUGH!
I feel better. I got it out of my system. I will end with a famous quote from a Black Man who was beaten for no reason.
"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" Rodney King.
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