Having rewatched the series, I think the character I feel the most sorry for is Kizzy's mother, Belle. She never knew what it was like to be free and she lost her first husband and had to watch all three of her children get sold away from her. Then in the end she gets sold to a traveling slave trader, so she winds up eventually being separated from every single person she loved and even the place she'd lived most of her life. What a raw deal.
@@thebmarieshowopinion me too. But those were the era. And I must say white men were not the only guilty party. The rulers of Africa too were guilty for conspiring with white people in abducting Africans
4:38 if you listen carefully Kizzy says”you said I was your friend” which for me is the saddest part of the scene. Cause kizzy is getting split up from her parents and crying and begging for her help but she just stands there and watches and looks like she couldnt care less. Some “friend” she turned out to be
And what do you think Miss Anne can do when she has no Authority too change things remember Girls & Woman even the Whites at that time has no Right to deal in Business only Men allowed they are limited in House things also her Father is Firm in Punishing Kizzy and also in First Place when Noah reveal that its Kizzy is the one who Forged the Fake Pass revealing that Kizzy Can Read & Write at that time Slaves that be Caught learn to Read & Write straight-up get executed also the Entire Southern USA are Slave States so its even Hard to escape in the North when a Slaves caught escaping they are Straight-up Hanged in the Tree.
This is the singularly most painful movie scene ever. Even the black actors were traumatized by this scene. Leslie Uggams said that the white people were acting, but the black actors were reliving history. She said she herself hyperventilated after this scene because it was so gut wrenchingly real to her😢. I play this scene over every once in a while so as to remember the history of blacks in this country to help me appreciate my family so much more, and to strengthen my grip on God’s kingdom and what it will do to undo all of the pain from Satan’s world. Revelation 21:3-5
This scene was so tough, it caused trauma for even the white actors. Chuck Connors and Sandy Duncan were both traumatized with guilt for the actions of their characters. Robert Reed was also traumatized, because the scene hit pretty close to home for him, as he had surrendered custody of his own daughter, because of his homosexuality.
It will also be amazing when in God’s new world, these injustices will be reversed when families are reunited in the resurrection and all painful memories of these events will disappear
I was gifted this movie. Every time I watch this scene I almost feel like someone needs to come get me. I have two children, I cannot even imagine that type of pain in my heart.
This scene is one of 3 that is very traumatic to watch from this mini series. I hate the fact that they are re-making roots as this original was perfection.
Vitaluv I don't think that it was necessary we disagree there and I don't think it's better it was good but not better in my opinion. You also have to factor in age iam 42 while a kid in 1977 I appreciate the original
dreamerof93 Yes, the remake was beautiful, but it couldn't stand against the original. I'm 50, I can never stop watching, ROOTS. Anybody who knows me, don't call, stop by, text, if you need a ride, not to bother me when I'm watching, Roots. Somebody died, jump off a bridge, hands decapitate, in labor, moral support court appearance, don't bother me while watching, Roots. Tell me all tragics after I'm finished watching the marathon. Shoot......you may want to call an hour later after the marathon, it's going to take me that long to stop crying. I even get calls days before, being told "Angie, Roots coming on this weekend" EVERYTHING is cancelled. After watching, I always thank Alex Haley for telling the story of his ancestors. The 9th generation of Kunta's, youngest brother was told by his grandma, back then the Africans believed in medians. Kunta's father was told of his son's future. Kunta will grow up and be strong, proud and remembered through out generations to come, but he will only be with his family a short period of his life. KUNTA, was 18 when he was captured and still known of til this day. When Roots aired in '77 there wasn't not one body, person, sole at the casinos in Vegas. Sandy Duncan, who played Missy Ann, said she had never watched Roots. It was too hard to watch. Leslie Uggams, who played Kizzy, it took her over 2 hours to get over her scene being sold. As said, Kunta Kinte, will be known throughout generations to come.
This was so hard for Bell because what Kizzy did was the "exact" same thing that she did when she helped her First Husband Ben to try and escape. He got caught, got sent to another Plantation and they took her Baby Girl away from her.
Sandy Duncan became Public Enemy #1 after this. She was so convincing Black Women cursed, screamed and spat at her in The Street. Her own Grandmother thought she "did" it, and to this day she's never watched the Whole Miniseries. It's too painful for her. She also said that for the first time she saw what it was like being a "Minority" with a predominately Black Cast.
The thing that I remember most about Roots was how Robert Reed ( Brady Brunch), Lorne Greene (Bonanza), and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), who were most popular for the good guy roles they played on classic TV sitcoms, became some of the most ruthless and despised villains ever in this movie. I guess that speaks volumes about how good actors they were.
I was traumatized by this when I was nine. Now that I have two daughters, it makes me cry every time. There was physical pain inflicted on slaves to be sure. But THIS sort of emotional pain was perhaps the cruelest sort inflicted of all.
Absolutely the most heart wrenching moment of Roots. The casting was perfect and I never fail to cry my eyes out at this scene. Slavery was so deplorable
I was 9 when this aired watching it with my mom. Its was the traumatizing re-enactment of slavery up to that time and arguably since. In today societal events racism is the scar of slavery that never seems to never heal. I watch Roots now as an academic and historical reference of to what America inherited and perpetuate through post civil war, antebellum, Jim Crow, Civil Right and the continued civil liberties we continue to fight.
@@Acinc-lr2jp Not only that, but they don't even tell the whole story of slavery or anything else. They delete a lot of history, erase it, or hide it. Look up "gator babies".
What’s even sadder is that Toby/Kunta and Belle had to live on and work his land, as if nothing happened. And this was the last we seen of both Toby and Belle.
OUT OF ALL THE CHARACTERS IN ROOTS BELLE SUFFERED THA MOST CAUSE YEARS BEFORE THEY SOLD KIZZY THEY SOLD BELLE'S 2 YOUNG BABIES NOW ALL THAT'S GO TO BREAK ANYONE'S SPIRIT AFTER I SAW THIS IN 77 I WANTED TO FUCK UP THA FIRST WHITE PERSON I SAW AND BELIEVE ME I WAS'NT ALONE
That's what got me. She cooked for the master and he drove. I bet they were expected to be at work the next day as usual. Hard to believe. I'm white and I cannot comprehend such cruelty. I think if I was born back then I would have helped the Quakers all I could. The acting in this series was superb and best series ever made.
Wow...as a Louisianan. ..we can't control our history just as other states have no control over their history etc. We can't change it but we're a proud resilient people and not gonna disown our own culture and history just because it makes other people uncomfortable. ..I don't like it either but can't change it and am a proud Louisianan! So...yeah being mad at a whole culture of people (southerners ) over something that happened a hundred years ago we had absolutely nothing to do with nor any influence or control over...is sickening!
Generations of heartless animals. That’s the only explanation. No matter if slavery was an economic decision or not, humans feel empathy in situations like this. If you don’t, then you are either a sociopath or inhuman. I’ve seen people cry about dolphins being mistreated so there is no way these people were in their right mind
Slavery is condoned in the Bible. Moses and his men conquered and enslaved the Canaanites. The slavers used verses like this to justify their actions. Free labor done by slaves produces massive profits, generational wealth that families enjoy today. Alexander “The Great” sold conquered peoples into slavery, especially those from city states that resisted him, most notably the island of Tyre. Rome has slaves, Khengis Khan had slaves, the Spanish took Mexican slaves. It is human nature it seems.
@brucejemcek6986 if you read the Bible closely yes they had slaves but they did not beat , rape or torture them especially not the children you can not compare Bible times to the actions of these animals, the slaves in that Era were treated with the utmost kindness and care they were allowed to learn to eat & roam as they please, they were like our modern day maids / house keepers and in Biblical times they did not single out a group of ppl due to their skin color and enslave them. Slaves were acquired if one owed money they would work off that debt as a slave and they were giving the choice to stay or go if they wanted. Please stop trying to justify this barbarity the white man raped , killed , tortured & stole land amongst other things because they're pure evil they took Bible accounts and flipped them to benefit their selfish greed and laziness. What the modern day slave owners did was not human nature it was animal nature but GOD is good because I can assure you we're not our ancestors so try that bs now.
Just remember White ppl didnt start this They ENDED IT!!! US civil war/barnaby wars British empire fighting several wars to end it among african, latin, arabic, asian, polynesian slave owners/traders Muslims had it and have it still
@@wamuriuki4 He didn't lie. White folks didn't start slavery. The Arabs did. However, they did participate. The European version of indentured servitude they got from the Romans still gave the hope folks could be free and wasn't as cruel nor brutal. However, once the pre-scramble for Africa started and the Spanish, Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese wanted to get their hands dirty over here they went above and beyond and hybrided all they learned on the subject and it morphed into "chattel slavery". The British even changed their rules that if your mother was free you were free and if you sired a child as a man that child would inherit your property to fit the narrative here prior to the American Revolution. White folks also tried to end slavery, on that he's wrong. The British did stop the Trans Atlantic slave trade with the Arabs. But the broken off colony of America during reconstruction invented the Prison Industrial Complex in Birmingham Alabama in the 1870s to continue it, and that followed into 1896 Separate But Equal.
@@life4fireforever273 And you remember...they didn't end it...they just changed the rules. They did these disguting things to our black ancestors...you say they didn't start it? Fine, but they sure as hell treated black people like actually garbage...and they do not get a fucking pass on that.
I agree with many of the comments about how painful this scene is. What gets to me the most is that Kizzy's so-called best friend (Missy Ann) ended up snubbing her when the rubber met the road. She didn't even try to defend her, and then she turned around and said Kizzy was "just as stupid as all the rest" I wanted to reach through the screen and knock her out. To top it all off, many years later when Missy Ann rode in to the Moore plantation, not realizing that Kizzy was living there at the time, totally snubbed her again knowing full well who it was that gave her a cup of water. I'm glad Kizzy did what she did in THAT scene (some of you know what I'm talking about). Anyway thanks for posting. Shout out to Sandy Duncan and Leslie Uggams for their stellar performances.
@@mahimaahmed9315 They did tell Kizzy...."Never trust a toubab" came from Kunta, (he learned that back in Africa), and was preached all over that miniseries!
@@mrdoggo6094 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my family's has seen me cry many times when i was a kid until my teenage years, and when my father passed away last year ofcourse, being tough doesn't mean that you don't have feelings, being the toughest merciless incarcerated prisoner doesn't mean you don't cry in your cell when it's closed, being the toughest baddest warrior 🪖💪🏼 doesn't mean when you loose your best friends on the battlefield you don't cry when you return to camp, the only people's that doesn't have feelings or emotion's are psychopaths or sociopaths, that's why they start killing and raping spree's for them it's normal to rape kill and destroy, without having no kind of remorse or repentance, because to them the opposite is normal, but normal human beings have feelings some less emotional than the other but they have feelings, I HAVE SEEN THE TOUGHEST, BADDEST, MERCILESS KILLING MACHINES AND WARRIOR'S SHED TEARS WHEN IT WAS NEEDED
+michelle collins Lies. Whites tend to get away with murder almost every time they do it. Haven't you heard of Ted Bundy?? Eventually it caught up with the poor dude........didn't it.
@michelle collins once again i have to say this. You seem like a very smart individual and so like would like to inform you that this is not funny, when you say "LOL" it makes you come off like a dumbass little ungrateful bitch in other words a white supremacist and i know deep down you arent so im asking to to edit and correct this comment.
Three scenes made me wail so loud they could hear me down the block. First was Kunta’s capture in Africa, Second was Kunta’s whipping, and the third was this one; KIZZY SOLD. Oh Lord. . .
And here we are today in 2018 and blacks are crying on CNN for babies separated at the boarder ,and no one but our ancestors cried for our babies ,thats been separated on the plantation.. And no one ever apologized for it.
@Jayson Davis Yes all will get their rewards down the generational line - especially if they are still happily benefiting from and defending this racist system.
Roots was one of the best things to happen to American television. Helped to shine an ugly light on what slavery was. A dirty stain on America that you can’t scrub out.
Frenchie severine She helped another slave escape, disrespecting her master. What did she think is going to happen? Anyway, it was that slave who named her as a helper so...
Yes, and her Mother Bell was sold to another Planatation. I think that William Reynolds sold her off because he was too ashamed to "face" her over what he did and he knew the truth.
ReviewCam I've never read the novel can you tell me what happened to her in the novel? I know the movie she was raped and turned into a belly warmer what happened in the book?
I watched this mini-series with my mother and sister when it was on tv in 1977. I was 12 years old and I think that was the perfect age to see it. I was old enough for it to have real meaning and for that to shape my worldview, my sense of empathy and compassion and intolerance of cruelty and injustice. It shaped my values as a human being.
I'm 44 watching it now for the first time. Better late than never. But I will rewatch with my kids when they are little der and understand adult themes/content. This should be mandatory viewing in USA highschools
As emotionally evoking a scene as this is, it really is a watered down version of the cruelty most slaves experienced during the selling off of their family members.
I'm a Mexican american, first generation. My parents immigrated here from Sonora, Mexico. I was taught that this county, while not perfect and the racism my parents especially my dad endured, to appreciate what they were able to achieve here that would not have been possible in their beloved Mexico. To appreciate that america was a place of good. But when I was a little kid I was so shocked and disappointed when I found out African American were brought to the u.s. as slaves. I thought, like my parents, that they immigrated here in search of a better life. I was so dismayed to find out about slavery, not in America, we are the good guy's we don't do things like that. Then watching roots when it first aired and seeing the whole story of slavery, for a first generation american it was a jagged pill to swallow. I was only 10 when the show aired, it kind of at times traumatized me. I guess that's why some people want this part of history not to be focused on. It is a shameful part of our history but should be taught and not forgotten. I wonder if DeSantis means things like this scene being one of those beneficial skills slaves learned. ✌🏼
The really sad thing here is that this is what Kunta warned Bell about the whole time. Getting any kind of close with people who basically control your destiny. A near lifetime of loyalty couldn't save this child of hers any more than the first two that were sold away from her.
OMG what a sad sad sad sad scene! it breaks my heart! i was 10 years when i saw this and till now just to watch it again breaks my heart! the actors are perfect! what great actors!
This was not just "acting" dear. This was a reality of history. The scars of which to this day are imprinted in the genes of descendants of this savagery to this day. My maternal and paternal great grandmothers were born in 1856 and 1858 respectively. I was old enough to talk to both of them and listen to their stories. This scene is mild compared to what black people endured for 250 years in the Americas alone. Jim Crow was only a less legal extension of this system. And 40 more years of rigid discrimination which I grew up in. I was 5 years old when my two teen aged uncles and I, walking through the woods of Louisiana, found a black man lynched by the Klan in response to the civil rights movement. It wasn't drama. This was life for black people every day! THAT is the reality.
This hit different than it did when I watched it as a kid. Now that I'm a parent, I FELT Belle's heart being taken right out of her chest watching Kizzy be taken away.😥
@@AnimalLover-- Bell had her other children and husband taken away from her years before. Toby was hurt, too, but his heartbreak wasn't the same as hers...imo.
@@AnimalLover-- He suffers, but it's not the same. Add 9 months of carrying her in her body to the love and bonding they both feel since her birth. Then add two years of nursing her. Mothers and fathers do not suffer the same.
Kunta and Bell were the coolest parents! I liked how they did their best to help Kizzie. Sadly, there was nothing to do to stop from losing their wonderful daughter... Most likely each one died from a broken heart. In Alex Haley's book, Kunta had a calendar of stones. However, without Kizzie, he likely saw no point in keeping it. He then took it and smashed it to pieces. Sadly, he was gone from the story. Excellent performances from these great actors! Madge Sinclair and Robert Reed are now long gone, most unfortunately.
I remember turning to my daddy and crying saying, “How can another person be sold to another? How can someone’s child be sold from them?” I don’t even remember what he said to me. I was so horrified.
1:28 so sad, Kunta was full of life and a true warrior even when he was first captured he didn’t give up. After they cut off half his foot he began to start giving up hope and we see him here a broken man, just look at his eyes.
I remember watching this scene in my high school history class. I felt terrible for Kizzy and her parents. Right now I'm reading about Slave Codes for my Ethnics and Minorities class and read about how slaves weren't allowed to read and write. Studying for the my Ethnics and Minorities class brought me here to this video.
I was a teacher and I showed this to children in a religious education lesson. It was about Moses and I needed to demonstrate to the children what slavery was like.
When i see this scene i feel sick to my stomach, I feel angry at Reynolds and Missy. Reynolds claiming he was a moral man by sating he wont split families and criticizes the people who cut off Kunta''s foot yet he was nothing more than a racist hypocrite who took Kizzy away from her family and sold her to a screwed up rapist. Missy was a brat who betrayed her friend Kizzy was just her pet hope her and her uncle got what was coming to them. Slavery was so wrong it was evil it was inhuman seeing actions like this its horrible and heartbreaking. No one should ever be slave
I hate Missy Anne so much, she deserves to be hated after what she did here. It's way too unforgivable. Just because slavery was made legal doesn't make it right.
I was really little when ROOTS came on television THIS SCENE stuck out like a sore thumb then as it still do now It still till this very day hurt me to my core
@John Hightower I say I didn't know something, and your response is to try to make me feel bad about not knowing? You have made assumptions about what I know or don't know, when really you could have used this as a teaching moment to add onto what the OP said.
let us forget their roles in the film, the white actresses are atomic bombs, sublime(sundy ducan, lynda day george). but the black actresses are the limit of being ugly, pass your way!!!!!!!(leslie uggams, madge sinclair). at the time of the segregation, the blacks look in secret white women and masturbate, it is the pure TRUTH!!!!!!!!!
As a 10-year-old watching this, it's sad to see. As an adult watching this, you realize how demonic "that peculiar institution" was, and the effects of it, to this day.....!
If I had invincibility and a time machine, every slave owner would suffer. Even the ones that were "good" to their slaves would suffer. Oh, the things I would do.
I would have been screaming and crying and begging not to sell Kizzy if i had been Missy Ann. Saying it was all my fault let her come with me. I saw on Oprah Winfrey the actress who played Missy Ann in the original Roots miniseries said so many people hated her even her grandmother
Missy Anne would not have had to beg. She had her uncle / biological father wrapped around her little finger. He gave her anything she wanted. All she would have had to do was ask and she could have saved both Noah and Kizzy. But she didn't care.
Slavery was a crime against humanity that spanned centuries. It is a heavy generational karmic debt that will take a millennium to resolve. The sadness of this scene is unfathomable. Difficult to watch.
It makes me sick to learn how black families went through in this time, even after slavery ended. Worse part is that nothing has changed. And the damn, racial, prejudice scumbags who dare to call themselves "right and never wrong" should feel the same pain and suffering they forced those slaves into. How can they live with themselves with such cruelty and injustice.
All the successful African Americans should never forget they're ancestors it's because of them they are rich and successful. The Lord blessed that race for all the suffering they endured.
Missy Anne’s indifference is what gets me. At least William knew it was wrong but he did it anyway. Missy Anne didn’t seem to care at all and almost seemed to enjoy it as revenge for Kizzy rejecting her proposal to be her slave.
There are a lot of scenes that I always recall from Roots. One of those scenes is when Kizzy spits in the water of Missy Ann years later as old ladies. It really wasn't that big a deal, but it felt satisfying to watch.
My Top 5 satisfying moments on Roots When John Reynolds fired Ames Kizzy spitting in Missy water Kunta toss stabs Third Mate Slater on ship Tom Harvey drowns Jimmy Brent Chicken George an his sons ties up Evan Brent at the end an Evan starts to almost cry...
he was overexplaining and trying to justify selling Kizzy because he knew how wrong it was.Belle was a highly valued house servant and Kizzy literally grew up under his nose
After thus scene, when I was in the 8th grade I knew then I could NEVER watch Sandy Duncan play anything ever again. Her 'helpless stare' was pure unmitigated evil. I don't regret that decision.
You would have worked your Black Ass like all the other slaves and mumbled under your breath the wish of revenge, as most blacks do today. You serve because The American Black was created over 300 years of careful breeding and selection - today is the result. A loyal group that serve thy Master. I apologize for being bash.
@@kimdayne2012 bitch, what are you talking about??????...black people don't ''mumble'' shit under their breath today...Every black person I know will cuss you tf out you come at them wrong...I do however agree about the black American has only been around 300+ yrs...that's why I call Myself a Black American...Not an African American...
Missy Ann was upset because after everything she offered Kissy, she still chose to help the black man she liked. In a sense it's like Missy thought that she gave Kissy the gift of reading which meant she had to be loyal to her and turn her back on her own people. SMH. awhats so ironic is she was stupid enough to sign that form for him putting her life and her parents life in danger. Plus all the trouble Missy Ann could have gotten into for teaching her how to read. For him to throw her under the bus. LESSON LEARNED
While the actual book Roots was plagiarized by Alex Haley (he had to pay big bucks to Harold Coulander for ripping off his book The African) what makes this scene so great is the raw acting of all involved. Sandy Duncan was America's sweetheart until this role - she really broke out and became Missy Anne. And she suffered greatly over it too, being all but blackballed until she replaced Valarie Harper on Valerie which became The Hogan Family. But she wasn't the only one. Everybody's career suffered (sans Madge Sinclair) after Roots in this scene. John Amos all but vanished from TV until 702 Hauser Street, which lasted half a season. Robert Reed did Scruples and a few Brady Bunch TV Movies before dying of AIDS, and Leslie Uggams vanished until she appeared first on All My Children (being replaced by Lynn Thigpen) and playing Theresa Randle's mother in Sugar Hill. It was a small price to pay for the acting.
If I had lived in that time, I would have had Missy Anne kidnapped and sold in the Middle East to the seediest brothel there and would have rubbed it in her uncle's face just so he could feel the same despair that slaves went through.
@@jparker19822009 Not in the novel. In the novel her father was John Waller, who was Kunta's first owner. William Waller bought Kunta from his brother after he got his foot cut off.
This just makes me mad and even madder we never got an apology or anything to show for everything our people went through and did and contributed we just got the bad side effects of it all.
Don't lie or exaggerate. Many are sorry about Africans being enslaved in America. You don't alway have to hear "I'm sorry" because actions can speak louder than words.
@@TheRivrPrncess we should not be sorry for something we didn't do just like the blacks of today should not expect an apology for what they never went through
This scene, especially “Miss” Ann’s responses, burned a strooooong memory of who not to trust (ever). I learned and watched (to verify) early on, to pay attention and tread carefully when dealing with them and their type. It is definitely because of this scene I’ve “survived” in this world as well as mine. It is a shame to have to live this way but I’m thankful for the heads up ✊🏾
The catholic Church in ireland did this to thousands of us in Mother and Baby Homes. We were sold to adoptors. This happens in adoption all over the world today.
Oh my God this burn my heart. Slave owners have done some awful things to black families, tearing them apart, and taking away our names and identites. If it weren't for GOD, we would not have survived such tragedies. 💔
Blacks are the chosen people! We (Our ancestors) brought curses upon us due to disobedience and rebelliousness against Yah! See Deuteronomy 28 for the curses!
No...White People Enslaved Us For Over 400 yrs bc they Wanted to...There's No Conspiracy Theory on why they chose Black People to Enslave, Other Then their Filled with Hate and Doesn't Give a Shit what They Do...Your Ancestors were Evil Pieces of Shit who Cares About the Betterment of No One But Themselves...look how they STOLE this Country from the Natives...like who tf does that?????...who Steals Countries From Their Native People...No One But White People...Now this country is Constantly going to War bc white people are Always worrying about how mfrs conduct themselves in Their Own Country...which is Typical White People Behavior, That's Why No Ones Ever Surprised when some shit comes up...
toya adams which are part of the curses of Deuteronomy chapter 28. But y’all niggas still don’t wanna obey The Most High so therefore white folks as well as these other nations will be on our ass until YAH say enough
Our 400 years are up we are no longer the tail but soon to be the head in God's timing God bless you and yours who's the people we the people said by pastor Omar thibeaux Jackie in north fl
I remember watching this when I was younger, my parents and grandparents ( on both sides ) wanted my 2 brothers and 2 sisters along with myself to know what life was really like not that long ago for some people. I didn't really understand back then, but after watching this I started to .. real fast.
My God in heaven every time I see this scene I get so disgusted I can't even imagine someone taking my children out of my house and in to watch them just do anything to this poor girl in her poor family and Miss Bell groveling on her knees and then just coming up with sell us all as long as we together and it's falling on deaf ears and in that has he standing in the window looking like oh well I had to turn it off and I was nine years old when this came out and I'm 50 and it's still in packs me very same way
This scene makes me cry every time I see it. Slavery is an ugly institution that has denied most Black Americans today of their true ancestral lineage. White Americans can more easily trace their roots than Black Americans. So, as messed up as things are today, I never take for granted the liberties that I enjoy, as those forced into American slavery didn’t have them.
Having rewatched the series, I think the character I feel the most sorry for is Kizzy's mother, Belle. She never knew what it was like to be free and she lost her first husband and had to watch all three of her children get sold away from her. Then in the end she gets sold to a traveling slave trader, so she winds up eventually being separated from every single person she loved and even the place she'd lived most of her life. What a raw deal.
Sueb18631 omg 😱 ain’t that painful?! 😢😢 I cant even imagine. I would lose my mind if I could never see my babies. I couldn’t ever stop crying.
@@thebmarieshowopinion It is, and it's a powerful illustration of one of the most tragic aspects of slavery - the separation of families.
Sueb18631 😢😢😢
She also worked for the man 40 years that had to quit for something sad
@@thebmarieshowopinion me too.
But those were the era.
And I must say white men were not the only guilty party.
The rulers of Africa too were guilty for conspiring with white people in abducting Africans
4:38 if you listen carefully Kizzy says”you said I was your friend” which for me is the saddest part of the scene. Cause kizzy is getting split up from her parents and crying and begging for her help but she just stands there and watches and looks like she couldnt care less. Some “friend” she turned out to be
I wanted to rip out all of her hair for betraying Kizzy like that.
What a soulless vessel full of nothing but evil she's !
And what do you think Miss Anne can do when she has no Authority too change things remember Girls & Woman even the Whites at that time has no Right to deal in Business only Men allowed they are limited in House things also her Father is Firm in Punishing Kizzy and also in First Place when Noah reveal that its Kizzy is the one who Forged the Fake Pass revealing that Kizzy Can Read & Write at that time Slaves that be Caught learn to Read & Write straight-up get executed also the Entire Southern USA are Slave States so its even Hard to escape in the North when a Slaves caught escaping they are Straight-up Hanged in the Tree.
So sad and heartless.
@@diamondjack-cooper5322AGREED! It makes me sick to my stomach to see this
To think, this happened to hundreds of black families...This is where the breakdown of the black family started
+ARC1313 it needs to be said because it's true. now we gotta snap out of it.
+ARC1313 when were you born?
+metoyu38 thinking that way makes you no different then the people who did this.
zazi the beast So why don't you tell me how I should think, since you people seem to have all the answers
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This is the singularly most painful movie scene ever. Even the black actors were traumatized by this scene. Leslie Uggams said that the white people were acting, but the black actors were reliving history. She said she herself hyperventilated after this scene because it was so gut wrenchingly real to her😢.
I play this scene over every once in a while so as to remember the history of blacks in this country to help me appreciate my family so much more, and to strengthen my grip on God’s kingdom and what it will do to undo all of the pain from Satan’s world.
Revelation 21:3-5
This scene was so tough, it caused trauma for even the white actors. Chuck Connors and Sandy Duncan were both traumatized with guilt for the actions of their characters. Robert Reed was also traumatized, because the scene hit pretty close to home for him, as he had surrendered custody of his own daughter, because of his homosexuality.
It will also be amazing when in God’s new world, these injustices will be reversed when families are reunited in the resurrection and all painful memories of these events will disappear
There ain't no God here ladies and gentlemen. There ain't no God that would allow this suffering and not intervene and fix it.
Is it more traumatizing than black on black crime?
@@joedimaggio3687 yes because Black on Black crime in America is not state institutionalized like slavery was.
When she began to beg for her child I felt it...I could see me as a mother in that woman
Dad loves their children just as much.
Madge Sinclair (Mami Belle) deserved an award for this; makes me cry every time I watch this part..
I think she picked up the Emmy! That was one great actress!
@@thescatman5029
Yes, may she RIP. The great unsung Madge Sinclair!
Harleen Quinzel I still tear up watching this scene😢 2019
I was gifted this movie. Every time I watch this scene I almost feel like someone needs to come get me. I have two children, I cannot even imagine that type of pain in my heart.
This scene is one of 3 that is very traumatic to watch from this mini series. I hate the fact that they are re-making roots as this original was perfection.
+Mitzi73 Its a series that should never be remade. This is one of the defining scenes of the series.
+Donta B the remake was necessary and. in a lot of ways better and I love this version too.
The remake was beautiful
Vitaluv I don't think that it was necessary we disagree there and I don't think it's better it was good but not better in my opinion. You also have to factor in age iam 42 while a kid in 1977 I appreciate the original
dreamerof93 Yes, the remake was beautiful, but it couldn't stand against the original. I'm 50, I can never stop watching, ROOTS. Anybody who knows me, don't call, stop by, text, if you need a ride, not to bother me when I'm watching, Roots. Somebody died, jump off a bridge, hands decapitate, in labor, moral support court appearance, don't bother me while watching, Roots. Tell me all tragics after I'm finished watching the marathon. Shoot......you may want to call an hour later after the marathon, it's going to take me that long to stop crying.
I even get calls days before, being told "Angie, Roots coming on this weekend" EVERYTHING is cancelled. After watching, I always thank Alex Haley for telling the story of his ancestors. The 9th generation of Kunta's, youngest brother was told by his grandma, back then the Africans believed in medians. Kunta's father was told of his son's future. Kunta will grow up and be strong, proud and remembered through out generations to come, but he will only be with his family a short period of his life. KUNTA, was 18 when he was captured and still known of til this day.
When Roots aired in '77 there wasn't not one body, person, sole at the casinos in Vegas. Sandy Duncan, who played Missy Ann, said she had never watched Roots. It was too hard to watch. Leslie Uggams, who played Kizzy, it took her over 2 hours to get over her scene being sold. As said, Kunta Kinte, will be known throughout generations to come.
This was so hard for Bell because what Kizzy did was the "exact" same thing that she did when she helped her First Husband Ben to try and escape. He got caught, got sent to another Plantation and they took her Baby Girl away from her.
They said that after filming this scene, it was so quiet after they called "cut" that you could hear a pin drop.
I bet tears were just flowing on that set with the knowledge of those horrors done to Our Ancestors and having to actually act it out
Nina Travis I can only imagine smh so much realness in one scene. I’d be overwhelmed with emotions
Sandy Duncan became Public Enemy #1 after this. She was so convincing Black Women cursed, screamed and spat at her in The Street. Her own Grandmother thought she "did" it, and to this day she's never watched the Whole Miniseries. It's too painful for her. She also said that for the first time she saw what it was like being a "Minority" with a predominately Black Cast.
now the black woman acting like the white man still running to there white Daddy repeating the cycle I bet y'all won't acknowledge that Kizi🤣
@@jeraldbeckhom6542 💤💤💤💤💤💤💤
Every Black child needs to watch this scene.
Phynesse A those black children need to learn the rules. You are right
Greedy D and WAT rules are u talkin about?
Phynesse A, yeah hopefully they'll appreciate an education for real!
Yep
Phynesse A fuck a scene they need to watch all these damn episodes including that scene
The thing that I remember most about Roots was how Robert Reed ( Brady Brunch), Lorne Greene (Bonanza), and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman), who were most popular for the good guy roles they played on classic TV sitcoms, became some of the most ruthless and despised villains ever in this movie. I guess that speaks volumes about how good actors they were.
Vic Morrow from Combat too
@@naughtydorf18 Exactly 💯 👏. Oprah Winfrey talked about that as well. Don't forget Lloyd Bridgescwhose Son Beau Adopted a Black Boy.
John amos good times Lawrence Hilton Jacob's welcome back Kotter madge Sinclair trapper John m.d.
Real good actors back then.
I was traumatized by this when I was nine. Now that I have two daughters, it makes me cry every time. There was physical pain inflicted on slaves to be sure. But THIS sort of emotional pain was perhaps the cruelest sort inflicted of all.
rosstube Yes it was...
The absolute worst
@DonkeyLips McGee excuse you? Just cus he's a man he's not allowed to be emotional? Get outta here👉👉
DonkeyLips McGee Slavery was real as much as you don’t wanna believe your ancestors were evil, they were.
@@DLloydisDFG this is the verse I thought about looking at this scene
Its a shame to say slavery still exist today just under a different name
keon mitchell Well it is
keon mitchell yea!!!! It's called dcs or cps they the new slave masters
keon mitchell Always had and always will be....
One called Employment by the government.
You do realize that the African slave is still thriving in Libya right?
I can't believe a humans could be so inhumane, vile and cruel. This is a horror film.
Exactly. Horrendous.
YES. But this horror film is based on the real life experiences of millions of people.
Absolutely the most heart wrenching moment of Roots. The casting was perfect and I never fail to cry my eyes out at this scene. Slavery was so deplorable
I was 9 when this aired watching it with my mom. Its was the traumatizing re-enactment of slavery up to that time and arguably since. In today societal events racism is the scar of slavery that never seems to never heal. I watch Roots now as an academic and historical reference of to what America inherited and perpetuate through post civil war, antebellum, Jim Crow, Civil Right and the continued civil liberties we continue to fight.
@@Acinc-lr2jp Not only that, but they don't even tell the whole story of slavery or anything else. They delete a lot of history, erase it, or hide it. Look up "gator babies".
What’s even sadder is that Toby/Kunta and Belle had to live on and work his land, as if nothing happened. And this was the last we seen of both Toby and Belle.
A.B.S Productions, LLC kunta stop calling him Toby
OUT OF ALL THE CHARACTERS IN ROOTS BELLE SUFFERED THA MOST CAUSE YEARS BEFORE THEY SOLD KIZZY THEY SOLD BELLE'S 2 YOUNG BABIES NOW ALL THAT'S GO TO BREAK ANYONE'S SPIRIT AFTER I SAW THIS IN 77 I WANTED TO FUCK UP THA FIRST WHITE PERSON I SAW AND BELIEVE ME I WAS'NT ALONE
@@antoineemory6772 And don't forget, they sold Belle after this too.
Kizzy actually travelled back to that plantation many years later, but by then he'd already died
That's what got me. She cooked for the master and he drove. I bet they were expected to be at work the next day as usual. Hard to believe. I'm white and I cannot comprehend such cruelty. I think if I was born back then I would have helped the Quakers all I could. The acting in this series was superb and best series ever made.
this scene always floods my eyes with tears.
Me too! So hard to watch.
Yes I think everyone.
All men and women , all humanity is under damm
I remember watching this when it first aired 43 years ago it was so sad and I cried and cried now I'm crying again it's so heartbreaking..😭💔
Same bro
This is the Southern Heritage people are so proud of, and want to preserve. smh
dLimboStick Sad
dLimboStick Sad
dLimboStick A dam shame...
Wow...as a Louisianan. ..we can't control our history just as other states have no control over their history etc. We can't change it but we're a proud resilient people and not gonna disown our own culture and history just because it makes other people uncomfortable. ..I don't like it either but can't change it and am a proud Louisianan! So...yeah being mad at a whole culture of people (southerners ) over something that happened a hundred years ago we had absolutely nothing to do with nor any influence or control over...is sickening!
You never know you can pass a relative in the street and not know it. We are family dang it 😊
Generations of heartless animals. That’s the only explanation. No matter if slavery was an economic decision or not, humans feel empathy in situations like this. If you don’t, then you are either a sociopath or inhuman. I’ve seen people cry about dolphins being mistreated so there is no way these people were in their right mind
The key word is "Human"... These mofos are not.
Africans weren’t seen at human beings. Disgusting
Slavery is condoned in the Bible. Moses and his men conquered and enslaved the Canaanites. The slavers used verses like this to justify their actions. Free labor done by slaves produces massive profits, generational wealth that families enjoy today. Alexander “The Great” sold conquered peoples into slavery, especially those from city states that resisted him, most notably the island of Tyre. Rome has slaves, Khengis Khan had slaves, the Spanish took Mexican slaves. It is human nature it seems.
@brucejemcek6986 if you read the Bible closely yes they had slaves but they did not beat , rape or torture them especially not the children you can not compare Bible times to the actions of these animals, the slaves in that Era were treated with the utmost kindness and care they were allowed to learn to eat & roam as they please, they were like our modern day maids / house keepers and in Biblical times they did not single out a group of ppl due to their skin color and enslave them. Slaves were acquired if one owed money they would work off that debt as a slave and they were giving the choice to stay or go if they wanted. Please stop trying to justify this barbarity the white man raped , killed , tortured & stole land amongst other things because they're pure evil they took Bible accounts and flipped them to benefit their selfish greed and laziness. What the modern day slave owners did was not human nature it was animal nature but GOD is good because I can assure you we're not our ancestors so try that bs now.
This is why I don't take reading for granted thanks to all my ancestors who sacrificed themselves for us. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
its disgusting that people get robbed of basic humanity
jonathan fanfan Just evil and the tragedy no one came forward sooner to get rid of it 400 years later. Damn
Just remember
White ppl didnt start this
They ENDED IT!!!
US civil war/barnaby wars
British empire fighting several wars to end it among african, latin, arabic, asian, polynesian slave owners/traders
Muslims had it and have it still
@@life4fireforever273 the nerve of liars like u
@@wamuriuki4 He didn't lie. White folks didn't start slavery. The Arabs did. However, they did participate. The European version of indentured servitude they got from the Romans still gave the hope folks could be free and wasn't as cruel nor brutal. However, once the pre-scramble for Africa started and the Spanish, Dutch, French, British, and Portuguese wanted to get their hands dirty over here they went above and beyond and hybrided all they learned on the subject and it morphed into "chattel slavery". The British even changed their rules that if your mother was free you were free and if you sired a child as a man that child would inherit your property to fit the narrative here prior to the American Revolution. White folks also tried to end slavery, on that he's wrong. The British did stop the Trans Atlantic slave trade with the Arabs. But the broken off colony of America during reconstruction invented the Prison Industrial Complex in Birmingham Alabama in the 1870s to continue it, and that followed into 1896 Separate But Equal.
@@life4fireforever273 And you remember...they didn't end it...they just changed the rules. They did these disguting things to our black ancestors...you say they didn't start it? Fine, but they sure as hell treated black people like actually garbage...and they do not get a fucking pass on that.
I agree with many of the comments about how painful this scene is. What gets to me the most is that Kizzy's so-called best friend (Missy Ann) ended up snubbing her when the rubber met the road. She didn't even try to defend her, and then she turned around and said Kizzy was "just as stupid as all the rest" I wanted to reach through the screen and knock her out. To top it all off, many years later when Missy Ann rode in to the Moore plantation, not realizing that Kizzy was living there at the time, totally snubbed her again knowing full well who it was that gave her a cup of water. I'm glad Kizzy did what she did in THAT scene (some of you know what I'm talking about). Anyway thanks for posting. Shout out to Sandy Duncan and Leslie Uggams for their stellar performances.
Not only does Reynolds tear this family apart, he doesn’t even give them the chance to say goodbye to each other.
That is the horror of slavery.
@Dave Bronstein who said that?
Reynolds was an evil and cruel Bastard
Ruthless, his bigotry showed through his academics. No different.
And he was suppose to be one of the “nicer” ones!
Kizzy should have never trusted that Karen. The plantation was the birthplace of the Karen.
In the book Kizzy learned to read at 5 years old. She had no idea that she couldnt trust her White "friend".
@@JuicedUpLemon Her parents should have taught her not to trust white people no matter what.They trust that white man too much.
@@mahimaahmed9315 There's actually a scene where Kunta Kinte tells his daughter not to trust Missy Ann, but she refuses to listen.
@@mahimaahmed9315 They did tell Kizzy...."Never trust a toubab" came from Kunta, (he learned that back in Africa), and was preached all over that miniseries!
@@thescatman5029 what a cruel fate.
I feel like crying watching this scene
I was around 14 when it was shown on TV.
I am from Malaysia anyway
I am a very tough man, but still this scene brings tears to my eyes
He was wicked man only Kizzy wanted only to read
@@felicialartey8865 😅😅 strong answer
@@mrdoggo6094 take a look for yourself
@@mrdoggo6094 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my family's has seen me cry many times when i was a kid until my teenage years, and when my father passed away last year ofcourse, being tough doesn't mean that you don't have feelings, being the toughest merciless incarcerated prisoner doesn't mean you don't cry in your cell when it's closed, being the toughest baddest warrior 🪖💪🏼 doesn't mean when you loose your best friends on the battlefield you don't cry when you return to camp, the only people's that doesn't have feelings or emotion's are psychopaths or sociopaths, that's why they start killing and raping spree's for them it's normal to rape kill and destroy, without having no kind of remorse or repentance, because to them the opposite is normal, but normal human beings have feelings some less emotional than the other but they have feelings, I HAVE SEEN THE TOUGHEST, BADDEST, MERCILESS KILLING MACHINES AND WARRIOR'S SHED TEARS WHEN IT WAS NEEDED
I bet you are it's what they all say
I wish every master could be awaken from the dead and whipped
kmbkb yessssssss
kmbkb They will suffer
+michelle collins Lies. Whites tend to get away with murder almost every time they do it. Haven't you heard of Ted Bundy?? Eventually it caught up with the poor dude........didn't it.
@michelle collins once again i have to say this. You seem like a very smart individual and so like would like to inform you that this is not funny, when you say "LOL" it makes you come off like a dumbass little ungrateful bitch in other words a white supremacist and i know deep down you arent so im asking to to edit and correct this comment.
Don't bother the been getting it since their last breath Satan is enjoying em for 100 and more years lol
Three scenes made me wail so loud they could hear me down the block. First was Kunta’s capture in Africa, Second was Kunta’s whipping, and the third was this one; KIZZY SOLD. Oh Lord. . .
Lisa Lindsey Yes
Lisa Lindsey and when they cut off his foot.
That is why I like chapter 8
he is a savage
Yep
The saddest part of the whole mini series. My wife couldn't stop crying and said she didn't wanna watch it anymore. Powerful. 😔
And here we are today in 2018 and blacks are crying on CNN for babies separated at the boarder ,and no one but our ancestors cried for our babies ,thats been separated on the plantation.. And no one ever apologized for it.
Indeed, Indeed, Indeed
Do you realize you make absolutely no sense?
keving52002 do not compare the border with slavery it’s nowhere the same.
Don't worry karma works their due is coming, it's going to be endlessly hotter for them !!!!!. My heart can't take it!!!!!
@Jayson Davis Yes all will get their rewards down the generational line - especially if they are still happily benefiting from and defending this racist system.
Roots was one of the best things to happen to American television. Helped to shine an ugly light on what slavery was. A dirty stain on America that you can’t scrub out.
She's already been sold. Damn.
Alyssa Springs god punish Robert reeds family
Alyssa Springs your very beautiful Alyssa
Frenchie severine She helped another slave escape, disrespecting her master. What did she think is going to happen? Anyway, it was that slave who named her as a helper so...
Yes, and her Mother Bell was sold to another Planatation. I think that William Reynolds sold her off because he was too ashamed to "face" her over what he did and he knew the truth.
Alyssa Springs yeah that is fuck up what happened to Kizzy beautiful
Horrible scene. I remember it made me cry so hard... Such good actors all of them...
ReviewCam
I've never read the novel can you tell me what happened to her in the novel? I know the movie she was raped
and turned into a belly warmer
what happened in the book?
ReviewCam did he tear that black ass up with thr whip?
True to what happened tho
@@anonymousinternetcowardmcq4967 another cowardly remark from behind UA-cam anonymity.
I agree, this is horrendous. Slavery still exists in third world countries.
I watched this mini-series with my mother and sister when it was on tv in 1977. I was 12 years old and I think that was the perfect age to see it. I was old enough for it to have real meaning and for that to shape my worldview, my sense of empathy and compassion and intolerance of cruelty and injustice. It shaped my values as a human being.
I'm 44 watching it now for the first time. Better late than never. But I will rewatch with my kids when they are little der and understand adult themes/content. This should be mandatory viewing in USA highschools
As emotionally evoking a scene as this is, it really is a watered down version of the cruelty most slaves experienced during the selling off of their family members.
Please elaborate.
I'm a Mexican american, first generation. My parents immigrated here from Sonora, Mexico. I was taught that this county, while not perfect and the racism my parents especially my dad endured, to appreciate what they were able to achieve here that would not have been possible in their beloved Mexico. To appreciate that america was a place of good. But when I was a little kid I was so shocked and disappointed when I found out African American were brought to the u.s. as slaves. I thought, like my parents, that they immigrated here in search of a better life. I was so dismayed to find out about slavery, not in America, we are the good guy's we don't do things like that. Then watching roots when it first aired and seeing the whole story of slavery, for a first generation american it was a jagged pill to swallow. I was only 10 when the show aired, it kind of at times traumatized me. I guess that's why some people want this part of history not to be focused on. It is a shameful part of our history but should be taught and not forgotten. I wonder if DeSantis means things like this scene being one of those beneficial skills slaves learned. ✌🏼
The really sad thing here is that this is what Kunta warned Bell about the whole time. Getting any kind of close with people who basically control your destiny. A near lifetime of loyalty couldn't save this child of hers any more than the first two that were sold away from her.
Yep! He tried warning both Belle and Kizzy...yet that didn't listen.
@@anitramiller9626😅😮
What is loyalty when it is not your choice?
Heartless then and the division now is exactly the same
@MARIANSCATLIFFE no, its not.
OMG what a sad sad sad sad scene! it breaks my heart! i was 10 years when i saw this and till now just to watch it again breaks my heart! the actors are perfect! what great actors!
This was not just "acting" dear. This was a reality of history. The scars of which to this day are imprinted in the genes of descendants of this savagery to this day. My maternal and paternal great grandmothers were born in 1856 and 1858 respectively. I was old enough to talk to both of them and listen to their stories. This scene is mild compared to what black people endured for 250 years in the Americas alone. Jim Crow was only a less legal extension of this system. And 40 more years of rigid discrimination which I grew up in. I was 5 years old when my two teen aged uncles and I, walking through the woods of Louisiana, found a black man lynched by the Klan in response to the civil rights movement. It wasn't drama. This was life for black people every day! THAT is the reality.
sugar love The acting sucks too
+Evelyn Khelama my sister you're talking true respect to you
Niece not daughter.
This is not about acting....this really happened. Don't be so blind about the realities of white people. Nothing's changed.
This hit different than it did when I watched it as a kid. Now that I'm a parent, I FELT Belle's heart being taken right out of her chest watching Kizzy be taken away.😥
Bell? What about toby? He suffer just the same
@@AnimalLover-- Bell had her other children and husband taken away from her years before. Toby was hurt, too, but his heartbreak wasn't the same as hers...imo.
@@AnimalLover-- He suffers, but it's not the same. Add 9 months of carrying her in her body to the love and bonding they both feel since her birth. Then add two years of nursing her. Mothers and fathers do not suffer the same.
Yes. Being a parent makes you recognize the unspeakable agony these women had to have felt, and still feel in places where slavery continues.
@@mowthpeece1 always using the damn "I carried baby for 9 month my bond is stronger" crap
No. Dads suffer the same
Kunta and Bell were the coolest parents! I liked how they did their best to help Kizzie. Sadly, there was nothing to do to stop from losing their wonderful daughter... Most likely each one died from a broken heart.
In Alex Haley's book, Kunta had a calendar of stones. However, without Kizzie, he likely saw no point in keeping it. He then took it and smashed it to pieces. Sadly, he was gone from the story.
Excellent performances from these great actors! Madge Sinclair and Robert Reed are now long gone, most unfortunately.
I remember turning to my daddy and crying saying, “How can another person be sold to another? How can someone’s child be sold from them?” I don’t even remember what he said to me. I was so horrified.
I really hated this sence.
Me too
She got exactly what she deserved
@@nicholasfarrell8403 what the fuck dude
@@nicholasfarrell8403 stop being racist
@@nicholasfarrell8403 what only a racist would say something like that that happened to many enslaved people back then.
1:28 so sad, Kunta was full of life and a true warrior even when he was first captured he didn’t give up. After they cut off half his foot he began to start giving up hope and we see him here a broken man, just look at his eyes.
I thought his name was Toby?
@@mrparkerdan His real name is Kunta , his slave name is Toby
I remember watching this scene in my high school history class. I felt terrible for Kizzy and her parents. Right now I'm reading about Slave Codes for my Ethnics and Minorities class and read about how slaves weren't allowed to read and write. Studying for the my Ethnics and Minorities class brought me here to this video.
I was a teacher and I showed this to children in a religious education lesson. It was about Moses and I needed to demonstrate to the children what slavery was like.
I like to be reminded of this scene. We must never forget what our ancestors went through.
Exactly!!!
The sad irony is that most Christian black people in the US support isreal😮
The most heart wrenching scene ever. Still disturbing to watch after all these years.
When i see this scene i feel sick to my stomach, I feel angry at Reynolds and Missy. Reynolds claiming he was a moral man by sating he wont split families and criticizes the people who cut off Kunta''s foot yet he was nothing more than a racist hypocrite who took Kizzy away from her family and sold her to a screwed up rapist. Missy was a brat who betrayed her friend Kizzy was just her pet hope her and her uncle got what was coming to them. Slavery was so wrong it was evil it was inhuman seeing actions like this its horrible and heartbreaking. No one should ever be slave
I hate Missy Anne so much, she deserves to be hated after what she did here. It's way too unforgivable. Just because slavery was made legal doesn't make it right.
The problem people forget what is right
The Nerd King Morality in not on a racists mind
+danny t0werhouse101 Lol right! smh
These people weren't real. Alex Haley plagiarized lots of material for Roots from other books.
A classic of the 1970's...almost feel this should required series for watching for everyone.
I was really little when ROOTS came on television
THIS SCENE stuck out like a sore thumb then as it still do now
It still till this very day hurt me to my core
It is so painful to watch. I almost stopped the video.
I always cry when I see this scene. Just like I cry in “The Color Purple” when the sisters are separated.
Perfectly written and acted. Powerful to the extreme.
Kizzy played the old woman in deadpool.
Yup, that's right. Leslie Uggams is a world-renowned singer and star of the screen and stage, so I was quite surprised when she played Blind Al. :)
Oh my word I didn't know that!!! I like fun facts like that
Leslie Uggams. A national treasure.
@John Hightower what are you even talking about?
@John Hightower I say I didn't know something, and your response is to try to make me feel bad about not knowing? You have made assumptions about what I know or don't know, when really you could have used this as a teaching moment to add onto what the OP said.
Slavery,wage slavery & huge inequality is still very much alive & well in the USA
No kidding but unfortunately, it's the law who could change it who are actually deep into it themselves!
+Bonnie Lee oh please Whites in general make the laws. You guys could change it but you don't because it doesn't affect you.
let us forget their roles in the film, the white actresses are atomic bombs, sublime(sundy ducan, lynda day george). but the black actresses are the limit of being ugly, pass your way!!!!!!!(leslie uggams, madge sinclair). at the time of the segregation, the blacks look in secret white women and masturbate, it is the pure TRUTH!!!!!!!!!
Djazia Timsiline I hate sandy ducan shes a bitch
marlaypk yes it is....
As a 10-year-old watching this, it's sad to see. As an adult watching this, you realize how demonic "that peculiar institution" was, and the effects of it, to this day.....!
I was 10 too when this came out
If I had invincibility and a time machine, every slave owner would suffer. Even the ones that were "good" to their slaves would suffer. Oh, the things I would do.
I would have been screaming and crying and begging not to sell Kizzy if i had been Missy Ann. Saying it was all my fault let her come with me. I saw on Oprah Winfrey the actress who played Missy Ann in the original Roots miniseries said so many people hated her even her grandmother
Sandy Duncan in one of her first roles.
On my knees begging not to sell her
Missy Anne would not have had to beg. She had her uncle / biological father wrapped around her little finger. He gave her anything she wanted. All she would have had to do was ask and she could have saved both Noah and Kizzy. But she didn't care.
R.I.P...Madge Sinclair 🌹
R.I.P...Robert Reed 🌹
@@princessshallowstar3166 It's an actor
THE REAL BOSSTOP OB4L oh shut up and go rot in hell with Robert reed
@@princessshallowstar3166 Shut up lil bitch
@TeenMomTo baby.J ,
Rot in hell Robert reed
I cant remember ever seeing such an incredible cast do such incredible work
Slavery was a crime against humanity that spanned centuries. It is a heavy generational karmic debt that will take a millennium to resolve. The sadness of this scene is unfathomable. Difficult to watch.
It makes me sick to learn how black families went through in this time, even after slavery ended. Worse part is that nothing has changed. And the damn, racial, prejudice scumbags who dare to call themselves "right and never wrong" should feel the same pain and suffering they forced those slaves into. How can they live with themselves with such cruelty and injustice.
Belle was sold away shortly after kizzy then kunta died of a broken heart.
Yes sadly she was.
What happened? I have always wondered why Belle was sold??
@@Miketendo93 I don't know why she was sold she was already old so what much more she could do.
All the successful African Americans should never forget they're ancestors it's because of them they are rich and successful. The Lord blessed that race for all the suffering they endured.
RIP Madge Sinclair. Always one of my favorite actresses.
She was brilliant in the scene! Whew!
Missy Anne’s indifference is what gets me. At least William knew it was wrong but he did it anyway. Missy Anne didn’t seem to care at all and almost seemed to enjoy it as revenge for Kizzy rejecting her proposal to be her slave.
This still breaks my heart to this day watching this scene. It made me so angry for so long. Still does.
They enjoyed our suffering long enough.
this is what a lot of blacks don't seem to understand... these demons ENJOY it..
You never suffered. sit down
There are a lot of scenes that I always recall from Roots. One of those scenes is when Kizzy spits in the water of Missy Ann years later as old ladies. It really wasn't that big a deal, but it felt satisfying to watch.
My Top 5 satisfying moments on Roots
When John Reynolds fired Ames
Kizzy spitting in Missy water
Kunta toss stabs Third Mate Slater on ship
Tom Harvey drowns Jimmy Brent
Chicken George an his sons ties up Evan Brent at the end an Evan starts to almost cry...
This scene should be shown in every school in america...Real History lesson!!!
This happened a lot during slavery. Very sad!
Sad this part of history happened.Taking a child away (sold) beyond heartbreaking.
he was overexplaining and trying to justify selling Kizzy because he knew how wrong it was.Belle was a highly valued house servant and Kizzy literally grew up under his nose
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Well she did a convincing job portraying that teenager , you chump!
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My eyes are find, maybe you need to have your brain checked.
After thus scene, when I was in the 8th grade I knew then I could NEVER watch Sandy Duncan play anything ever again. Her 'helpless stare' was pure unmitigated evil. I don't regret that decision.
I cant watch pass 4:00. I have a daughter now and I just cant watch. I would have burned the house down with me and Mr Brady in it.
You would have worked your Black Ass like all the other slaves and mumbled under your breath the wish of revenge, as most blacks do today. You serve because The American Black was created over 300 years of careful breeding and selection - today is the result. A loyal group that serve thy Master. I apologize for being bash.
OK
Mr. Brady 😂
@@kimdayne2012 bitch, what are you talking about??????...black people don't ''mumble'' shit under their breath today...Every black person I know will cuss you tf out you come at them wrong...I do however agree about the black American has only been around 300+ yrs...that's why I call Myself a Black American...Not an African American...
She got exactly what she deserved
Missy Ann was upset because after everything she offered Kissy, she still chose to help the black man she liked. In a sense it's like Missy thought that she gave Kissy the gift of reading which meant she had to be loyal to her and turn her back on her own people. SMH. awhats so ironic is she was stupid enough to sign that form for him putting her life and her parents life in danger. Plus all the trouble Missy Ann could have gotten into for teaching her how to read. For him to throw her under the bus. LESSON LEARNED
While the actual book Roots was plagiarized by Alex Haley (he had to pay big bucks to Harold Coulander for ripping off his book The African) what makes this scene so great is the raw acting of all involved. Sandy Duncan was America's sweetheart until this role - she really broke out and became Missy Anne. And she suffered greatly over it too, being all but blackballed until she replaced Valarie Harper on Valerie which became The Hogan Family. But she wasn't the only one.
Everybody's career suffered (sans Madge Sinclair) after Roots in this scene. John Amos all but vanished from TV until 702 Hauser Street, which lasted half a season. Robert Reed did Scruples and a few Brady Bunch TV Movies before dying of AIDS, and Leslie Uggams vanished until she appeared first on All My Children (being replaced by Lynn Thigpen) and playing Theresa Randle's mother in Sugar Hill. It was a small price to pay for the acting.
If I had lived in that time, I would have had Missy Anne kidnapped and sold in the Middle East to the seediest brothel there and would have rubbed it in her uncle's face just so he could feel the same despair that slaves went through.
fubukifangirl you know that was her daddy not her uncle
fubukifangirl
It was really his daughter (Missy Anne) he was getting it on with his sister-in-law.
Look what happened to Missy in Duengo unchained
@@jparker19822009 Not in the novel. In the novel her father was John Waller, who was Kunta's first owner. William Waller bought Kunta from his brother after he got his foot cut off.
@@adbc1f72 That wasn't indicated in the book.
This just makes me mad and even madder we never got an apology or anything to show for everything our people went through and did and contributed we just got the bad side effects of it all.
Wow really?! Entitled much? "Where my reperation?"
Don't lie or exaggerate. Many are sorry about Africans being enslaved in America. You don't alway have to hear "I'm sorry" because actions can speak louder than words.
You were never a slave so don't act like you are entitled to an apology
@@TheRivrPrncess we should not be sorry for something we didn't do just like the blacks of today should not expect an apology for what they never went through
This scene, especially “Miss” Ann’s responses, burned a strooooong memory of who not to trust (ever). I learned and watched (to verify) early on, to pay attention and tread carefully when dealing with them and their type. It is definitely because of this scene I’ve “survived” in this world as well as mine. It is a shame to have to live this way but I’m thankful for the heads up ✊🏾
Funny, but the opposite is said, too. There are bad people in every color and stripe. No color cornered the market on evil.
The catholic Church in ireland did this to thousands of us in Mother and Baby Homes. We were sold to adoptors. This happens in adoption all over the world today.
What episode is this from please? Where I watched ROOTS mini series, this whole episode was skipped over so I'm confused
Roots will always touch my heart. All praise be to Allah
allah is a demon
As is your mother
@@Billygoatsgrruff those jesus worshipers sure proved they are the real demons
So sad she has to beg for a child she carried and loved!
I actually cried when the first time I seen this scene,Painful to watch...............
Oh my God this burn my heart. Slave owners have done some awful things to black families, tearing them apart, and taking away our names and identites. If it weren't for GOD, we would not have survived such tragedies. 💔
Mr. Brady's patience finally ran out with all of his kids' hijinks
Sad things still happen like this today. Instead of calling them master they're called case workers, smh
You right about that. Witnessed it.
Girl case workers don’t just take your kids your ass gotta be proven to be unfit totally disagree with you
@@Iamnenab that’s completely untrue
With friends like Missy Anne who needs enemies 😘
MISSY ANNE IS AN ENEMY!
Blacks are the chosen people! We (Our ancestors) brought curses upon us due to disobedience and rebelliousness against Yah! See Deuteronomy 28 for the curses!
No...White People Enslaved Us For Over 400 yrs bc they Wanted to...There's No Conspiracy Theory on why they chose Black People to Enslave, Other Then their Filled with Hate and Doesn't Give a Shit what They Do...Your Ancestors were Evil Pieces of Shit who Cares About the Betterment of No One But Themselves...look how they STOLE this Country from the Natives...like who tf does that?????...who Steals Countries From Their Native People...No One But White People...Now this country is Constantly going to War bc white people are Always worrying about how mfrs conduct themselves in Their Own Country...which is Typical White People Behavior, That's Why No Ones Ever Surprised when some shit comes up...
toya adams which are part of the curses of Deuteronomy chapter 28. But y’all niggas still don’t wanna obey The Most High so therefore white folks as well as these other nations will be on our ass until YAH say enough
Our 400 years are up we are no longer the tail but soon to be the head in God's timing God bless you and yours who's the people we the people said by pastor Omar thibeaux Jackie in north fl
I remember tears the first time seeing this scene, 2023 still have them . Because Roots is a true story.
It isn't it's fiction
@@nihilistlivesmatterYes, but it's based on American Slavery, which is a true story.
Brings tears to my eyes whenever I see this. This still happens today but in a different form.
Every time I watch stories like this, I get angry to know how my ancestors were treated.
To be honest this is why I was supporting the villain in black panther.
I remember watching this when I was younger, my parents and grandparents ( on both sides ) wanted my 2 brothers and 2 sisters along with myself to know what life was really like not that long ago for some people. I didn't really understand back then, but after watching this I started to .. real fast.
My God in heaven every time I see this scene I get so disgusted I can't even imagine someone taking my children out of my house and in to watch them just do anything to this poor girl in her poor family and Miss Bell groveling on her knees and then just coming up with sell us all as long as we together and it's falling on deaf ears and in that has he standing in the window looking like oh well I had to turn it off and I was nine years old when this came out and I'm 50 and it's still in packs me very same way
Just why did this happen? Human beings snatched from their homes and being treated like animals because of their skin colour
Like animals?! Animals dont need abused either
This scene makes me cry every time I see it. Slavery is an ugly institution that has denied most Black Americans today of their true ancestral lineage. White Americans can more easily trace their roots than Black Americans. So, as messed up as things are today, I never take for granted the liberties that I enjoy, as those forced into American slavery didn’t have them.
Heart breaking. On a side bar note, incredible performances, including Robert Reed (better known as the dad on Brady Bunch).
I was 11 or 12 when I saw this series in my country! I cried watching all the suffering
watched Roots as a child, never again. If I watch it as a grown up I will just get mad again for something that happened ages ago.
This is what they want to do to us now, and in many ways it’s still going on.
Obey the rules or be sold.
SUDHIR PATEL F*ck the rules of demons
Wow