Roots "Kunta" Must Be Free
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- FREEDOM is the most important thing to every thinking human being. Self preservation is the first law in the universe. Example: the Haitians fought and achieved their freedom from the the French. Even today, the Haitians have been suffering since that achievement but they never accepted the alternative.
" Chains aint right for nigga fiddler " - most powerful line of the series.
Sure they are
Yes, i also believe this part of the movie...have been doing so since my childhood I kept it in mind: in French version we watched in Cameroon in the 1990,,,"Les chaines, c'est pas bon pour les Nègres, Violon:!''.
I mean if the chain fits lol
@@Spooky_515 smh....
“Lawd, you sho is some mighty child”
I cry ,because of all the risks and uncertainties Fiddler would get because of Kunta's passion for freedom, he is filled with compassion and empathy for him... Love prevails, under Heaven we are one people
You realize this is a completely fake movie ? Fiddler probably never existed. But look at the difference between the 1977 version & the 2016 version. Fiddlers life was completely different and he died under completely different circumstances.
@@jacksonheathen2092 Yes Sir, I'm aware the stories are suspect , but I love it :) i'm just drawn by emotion by that scene and context. 2016 version was indeed very different and I guess more deeper in some respects ..
@@peter-jamesmmbago8721 Yes, I suppose they were both emotional dramas about slavery. But at best, Roots is a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people and embellished to sell to a TV audience. In fact the author Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for this mini-series.
Personally, I preferred the original. But I'm not really a huge fan of reboots. If something was done well the first time, then maybe it should be left alone and it's time for a new story to be told.
I was however pleased to notice LeVar Burton made a brief appearance in the 2016 version as an older slave in the caged wagon who stares at the new Kunta Kinte. It would have been great if Burton had played the part of Fiddler this time instead of Forest Whitaker.
Who you think told on kunta in real life
Its toby not kunta
I know the subject matter isn't pleasant, but the Roots series was so incredibly well acted.
too bad it was all made up
Sam stone what the hell do u mean all made up. SLAVERY WAS A LIVING HELL. HAVE SOME RESPECT
George Cramer He meant the actual story was not true, but this could of happened anyways
Yes
George Cramer q
This needs to be shown over and over again.
People should never ever forget
👌👌👌👌👌
Nicola Taylor It was remade a few years back
@@joewhitehead3 the remake was trash.
@@atarbuck3452 I’ve heard it was good
@@joewhitehead3 Exactly. The difference between the original and the 2016 version are prolific.
That Louis Gossett Jr is a spectacular actor. This scene brought a tear to my eye.
RIP Louis Gossett Jr.
Me too 😢. POWER packed.
Why?
@@Kazemilover-12345 Because I found it so funny that I laughed so hard that I cried. Why else.
@@kings17court really? Damn you have a dark heart. These niggas went through hell and you are laughing at their pain
May Louis Gossett rest in peace.
Everytime Kunta hugs Fiddler I always start crying.
😔
Spare me
Why?
Both movies were excellent. Levar Burton played a magnificent role along with so many other fine actors. True stories like the sagas told by Alex Haley are always the most powerful.
Roots is completely fake. The author (Alex Haley) was successfully sued for plagiarism over his writings that he based this mini-series on. At best, it's a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people and embellished by Hollywood to sell to a TV audience.
I remember this series as a kid growing up in London, I think I watched the whole series, stuck in my mind ever since because it was very good and very true
No. It's not true. The author Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his writings that he based this mini-series on.
The greatest TV in history.
Rest in eternal peace Lou Gosset jnr
fiddler was actually a good friend. he was just scared for him and kunta that's all. he was just trying to teach kunta to survive!!!
TSean Powell Oh, I see what you mean now.
le code KFET ELIZEE
U crazy he said me not kunta he said for me chain still on my brother but it's in your mind
House slave
Tim Powell there was also an element of selfishness from Fiddler. He had a better life than some of the other slaves and did not want to give that up.
Kunta stayed with fiddler til the end when fiddler died
This particular clip from the award winning TV series Roots, demonstrates an important distinction related to how American domestic slaves had been socialized to accept their situatedness, whereas recent captives were still cognizant of their human rights.
Exactly
Edythe Weeks I wouldn't call them human rights
ok professor. Thanks
@Edythe Weeks what human rights would that be? African tribes took slaves all the time, some they sold to the Europeans, some they kept. Africans didn't recognize human rights even amongst their own people!
Jeff Burnham the English took Irish people as slaves, clearly Europeans weren’t cognisant of human rights since they are responsible the longest and most brutal period of human captivity in history!
To me, this was the very best part of the best miniseries to hit television. Louis Gossett, Jr. and Levar Burton made those characters believeable. As if you were there.
Agreed!
"What it like to be free African"? "Must be something special." It is. Made me so emotional. I used to live in Africa. The whole world is under this system of the Western Powers. No amount of education can set you free.
😖real talk
Zeko Cocoa yesssssssss
Not all African was slave
Nakma Abdi ik
Schooling is indoctrination not education.
We watched this series in my 4th grade class and I'll never forget it. Kids can handle the hard truths about the past. That is how we make a better future!
Except this is movie is completely fake.
@@jacksonheathen2092 nice troll
@@OGmemegenerator Why am I the troll ? Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over Roots. He even stole the material from a white author. You have internet access. So check it out for yourself.
But even if there were shreds of truth in the story. It's still largely a work of fiction embellished to sell to a TV audience. Even the 1977 and 2016 versions are quite different.
I was in 4th grade too
@@OGmemegeneratorit is tho
4:04 "Now you know what it feels like to be free Fiddler."
Ugh. This comment is just awful. Just... awful
@@impalapoppa4414 Sad words have so much power over you. It was posted to pay homage to the actor and the character.
Lord you some mighty child 😥
everybody needs to watch original Roots
Once he cut the chains Fiddler had to let him go which why his foot got chopped off so sad but Kunta wasn’t hearing
Original?
You mean there's a new adaptation???
Who thought any could top this one?!
Roots has to be the greatest miniseries ever created because it’s based on reality!✊🏽
still great 40 years later!!
blade0954 bujica
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true
blade0954 yessssssssss queen
Still funny 40 years later.
fiddler was his alternative father ,, he loved him so much
Lou Gosset is in a class of of his own.
Rest in Peace Lou Gossett Jr.
🙏🏽🥲Some of the best acting EVER!! These people FELT these roles! They experienced abuse and racism during filming. Lord, our PEOPLE!!🙏🏽🖤🙏🏽But He is coming back!🙏🏽And them wyt folks gonna wonder the same thing our people did🙏🏽🖤🙏🏽🖤
Fiddler was a very kind hearted man.
I was sharing tears 😭 as I was watching the movie. I just imagining, what Africans went through in the hands of white men. The trauma and torture they went through just for slavery. Africans we have suffered enough please let us love one another. Love conquers all things please let's come together as one color.
During the time of European slave trade, more blacks were being tortured, slaughtered and enslaved by dominant African tribes such as Mbundu and Chokwe and others, than by the white man.
Such a powerful performance by these two talented actors! KUDOS!!!
It is performance but slavery still pains us. We shall never forget the barbarism done on us innocently
@@walusunguzimba7739 what about black on black crime?
he was so scared for himself but he did whatever to protect tht boy lowkey. it wasnt a way to live by a long shot. but he was gonna keep him ALIVE
This is so sad..what the afro Americans went through...I think we Melanesians were lucky not to experience such horrors of slavery...although we did experience some 'black birding' in our part of the world for free labour to work in the sugar cane plantations in Queensland in the 1800's
mandika Warriors✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🇬🇲🇬🇲
Every person born into the world is a slave to the devil. We ONLY become FREE when we receive redemption by accepting JESUS as our LORD and SAVIOUR! St John 3:16! ❤
"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." John 8:36! ❤❤❤
Because of JESUS' sacrifice, we don't have to go to HELL any more! HALLELUJAH! 💃❤️✝️❤️
U must be white
RIP Fiddler aka Louis Gossett Jr!!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
the acting..I'm speechless
Cha-la head Cha-la it’s so shocking
Had to watch this as a kid in junior high. That was in 1997. Things were different back then. Racism was taken seriously but society was not obsessed by it. No cell phone. No social media. No woke culture. We did have internet and UA-cam was a new discovery for me that year. I'm 40 now. This series and Shogun had some of the finest damn acting of any mini series ever made.
UA-cam was made in 2005 though
Rest In Power Mr. Lou Gossett Jr.
Fiddler was a good brave friend to Kunta.
Is it crazy that this is my favorite movie? All the things that happened to us i don't know why I love this movie so much
It’s real but it also has a lot of heart
This movie is fake.
@@jacksonheathen2092 The book had some plagarism, but slavery happened. And horrible things too evil to show on television. Be grateful you're getting this watered down version.
@@mowthpeece112 years a Slave and Birth of a Nation makes Roots look like an after school program
Either way Roots still rocks
Me to it's my favourite aswell
What it like to be free!!!
I think Levar Burton got typecast and it makes sense because he's such an overwhelming character in the series.
I noticed that when both Burton and Gossett were nominated for Emmy's, LeVar was nominated for part 1, and Louis for part 3. I think both of their best performances were in part 2 right here. Perhaps they didn't want to do a tie!
what a great tv mini series one of my favorates of all times and the roots them song
is so beautiful my favorate them song this movie is educational for us all blacks an whites
us all. i too want too find my roots too thank you mr alex haley thank you. amen amen.
Recall this ROOT movie on TV 30 years ago. It is a great movie that remains part of my memories.
The acting is brilliant. Shakes me at my artistic core.
The white and black actors did an awesome job creating this movie. The book is just as good, some parts a little more detail.
2:17 Naaaw.... its Too Cold... and Im too Old.... R.I.P LGJ - Fiddler
This was the greatest reality movie of our times depicting and bringing out the picture of what our African brothers and sisters went through from the moment of capture to being sold as slaves,tears must roll after watching every episode of the 12 series Roots Movie.😢👌
It’s the cruel and grim details that are seen only on the surface, yet, just heartbreaking to see how they must have felt! The vicious reality of the domination and power for free labor and to conquer.
@@zahraanaama4028 true
@@zahraanaama4028 good day to you..!
Traducir al español
When he got up and started walking after freeing himself I cried
I don’t think he made it far tho
Keep on crying. This isn't real. It was a movie.
@@jacksonheathen2092 It's still a compelling story/work of fiction. Haven't you ever been emotional over a movie or TV-Series?
@@Johnnybomb1 Yes, I'll give you that. It was still a compelling miniseries and had a lot of great actors in it too. Personally, I don't really get very choked up over movies. But my point is that Alex Haley was a fraud. He stole much of his material for Roots from a white author named Courlander and was successfully sued for plagiarism over it. Yet plenty of people still think of Roots as some kind of fact based documentary.
@@jacksonheathen2092it still happened in the past. Slaves tried to escape plenty of times some did some died these are true events that happen in the past.
Why are people calling this fiction? If any of these atrocities on humans occurred it is to be remembered. It does not make it fiction if the names and places are not exact in the movie/s. Many re-makes of a true story do not reflect the original place or names in any movie.
The attempt at easing the conscience. CRT is the last stand against the Day of Reckoning!!
Oscar for one of the best movies of all time
Only tears is enough for an award
Sometime I feel like Kunta Young Scared Not afraid and just want to be free 🙏🏾
Lavar Burton is such a great actor. I've seen Root two or three times, and each time, I so want him to escape his captors. I think of slavery and ask: why, why, why?
Me encanta esta serie la vi en 1977 por 7 días. ahora la quiero volver a ver, pero en español la pongo y solo poner avances.
Gambian still having the great heart just like Kunta?
great actors! i cried!!!
this is real story
really good actors fake story though
@@sambacomedy6376 Not really. I'm not saying slavery wasn't real. But this is just a fake movie.
Breaks my heart that people treat others in such a manner.
It was a fictional movie.
I bet fiddler was really mad that kunta didn't come along when fiddler was younger so he could go with him. Fiddler old and got health issues that keeps him from running and he been around for so long to see what happens when you run by yourself, but if you had a team mate that felt like you. Only then you both had a chance at freedom. That's why he hit him. He wanted to go with someone like kunta but now his body couldn't bare the escape. He waited all his life to escape but now he is too old when his chance arrives. I would be mad too but still try to at least help someone who had the opportunity. If I can't make it ill at least help someone who can .
Yea u have a point but also understand a difference tween us in the field n in the house fiddler would be in the house (sell out) kunta was not but on the contrary fiddler wud have also been born into this as kunta was not thats all he knows hence "wat it like to be free"
I saw this movie when I was 12yrs old for the first time I cried so much I couldn't watch it to the end and still to this day I can't watch it breaks my heart.💔🙏🏾
Amazing that we humans have the capacity to be so horribly miserable with one another. May we find it in our hearts to forgive, to honor life and to rise above all this darkness.
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Ditto!
Man sed forgive , aint no forgiveness!! Dere time will come
This is completely fake.
I’ll never understand why any human has ever thought it was fine to declare ownership over another.
This whole scene is everything man 😭
Not really.
I hate Fiddler and Toby.😡😡😡😡😈
@@jacksonheathen2092i meant like in terms of acting it was emotional 🙏🏿
@@doopiedoo8915God Bless You 🙏🏿
2:00 you dun done it ta now!!
I read "fake" here, "fiction" and I finally come to ask what that all means. Fiction here does not mean "untruth" or "lie". It is all truth. The scenery, thé story is certainly pure creation. Truth is slavery, the souffering of human beings, the humiliations they endured, the crualty and wickedness of man when he possesses some power, etc. That's what Roots is about, the rest is only a coat.
when this movie came out I was ah Lill lion cub I never looked at life the same ever again
I'm trying to figure out if and when to share it with my 12 year old son.
Who’s here 2019
here i am 2020
Note that this was before 1776, so it was still the British Empire, not the USA yet.
@@ashamirmohammed4165 Britain had plenty of slaves throughout their global empire for many years after.
@@ashamirmohammed4165 I guess you don't know that Brazil has slavery until 1888, or that Saudi Arabia had it until 1962.
Good point.
He was from the gambia ma country
Lavarr Burton hasn’t aged a day. Same goes for Louis Gossett Jr. Such handsome fellows.
Louis Gossett Jr is 85 year old now. So he's aged a little bit. But I admit that I have a hard time guessing the age of African Americans.
Pisses me off that my Hero Kunta gets caught.
Several times. Got his toes chopped off too.
@@jacksonheathen2092 Half of his Foot was Cut Off, White Boy.
@@katarn0329 Thanks for the insightful opinion black boy.
@@jacksonheathen2092 Don't mention it friend.
@@katarn0329 You realize this is completely fake ? The author (Alex Haley) was successfully sued for plagiarism over this. At best, this is a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people who couldn't read or write and embellished by Hollywood to sell to a TV audience.
what a scene 4:03 , i cant even express the depth of that scene & dialogue , and the glimpse it gave us into real slaves hundreds years ago. May Allah bless their souls.
La Var Burton I grew up watching Star Trek and now seeing him in an epic mini series that talks about slavery is very intense
He should have just had the Enterprise beam him back up.
According to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia. He was raised in a Muslim family. In 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for his younger brother, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive.
RIP Louis Gossett Jr
Awsome reasons to get out and vote. Let's al help get rid of the tyrants in government.
blessed are those who struggle oppression is worse than the grave
I love black history movies
Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death
Boo Kapone knows all the references😂😂💯
Where in the hell on earth grown men like me crying after looking at the screne
Lou gossett jr is so powerful😮
04/2024* here. WOW. SUPER powerful scene. ONE of the best scenes in the whole series of a TOP SHELF, "A+" grade film. @ 4:02 Fiddla whispers: "What it like to be Free, African?" -😢
This is a powerful scene.
On c'est quand cela a commencé mais on c'est pas quand sa va finir 😢😢2020 est la et le racisme existe tjr même avec NS frère d'Afrique du nord
C'est vous vous parlez mal déjà arette de parler pcq vous vous vendez entre vous noirs contre noirs j'entends toujours un noir dire à un autre noir "espèce de vendu" chose que aussi on sait quand à commencé mais qui finit toujours pas comme on peut le constater dans le film déjà allez résoudre ce problème après allez résoudre les autres vous êtes racistes entre vous
This part tears me up, I know they cut his foot off when he's caught. A young girl, I watched this [thank u Mom] always in my heart I treated everyone the same. I don't see color; I wasn't raised that way.
That’s in Part 3. This is when he gets whipped and finally says his name is Toby
Black people deserve the rights that white people have everyone and everything needs it and not all of us can do it with out the others
Raíces en español latino
New Path I don't agree everyone has rights
not people on welfare im not paying for some lazy fuck who refuses to get a job but the government disagrees
TearsThePanda+
BUT...when YOU are one of the ones who benefits from welfare (i.e. the free labor provided in service of the USA under the threat of the lash), it's different, huh?
Monetarily compensating (paying back) the descendants of their oppressed ancestors and the free labor they provided for this country - worth $TRILLIONS$ - is unjust? You can't even shed so much as a single, solitary penny for being a beneficiary of that system of extreme torture and oppression?
Brandi Wertz nope it's my money I earned it I decide when I want to be generous
if I see a hard working man with kids can't even make enough to provide for them that's when welfare should help.
but if i see a lazy fuck spend the money to buy some fucking 21' blade rims to make his car look "hot" that's a hell no
“But you don’t have to take my word for it....”
chains aren't right for anybody
@Zanda Williams, wrong.
Well for rapist, serial killers, and low life
For lions because im scared of them
@@princelevi3733 you took the words out of my mouth
And ALL lives matter, right? SMFH!!
Volvio a la tierra de su antepasado. Sintió como algo dentro de él decia que pertenecía a ese lugar donde kunta kinte, el viejo africano dónde comenzó todo. La historia que atravesó el mar marcado por la esclavitud y el deseo de volver a casa y ser libre.
Rest in peace Louis Gossett Jr, your performance will never be forgotten🙏🏼🤍
I'm sorry for those people who actually were slaves can you imagine working all the time never have the time to spent with your family, can even say let us eat this meal together I guess for those of us that have freedom to do the thing we want and like should be greatful for what we have and appreciate the quality time we get to spend with our family and even for the little things we get in life,
What abuot thiear religion and political life am african
I remember they showed us this in school and I was confused wondering why Kunta was a slave but Fiddler and the other black people seemed to be free. Cos in my child mind a slave was someone given only pants or loin cloth to cover his privates and chains on his ankles and/or feet. Course now I wtach it and realise just because they didn't wear chains they were by no means free.
The tribe of Judah taken into captivity for their disobedience to the Most High Yah,
400 years in the land of our enemies in the land of our captivity.
Shalom Simba wa Yahudah (peace Lion of Judah).
Power Move!! 💪💪💪
‘Bout you Fiddler..?? Yeah me!! Me, me, me!!!
a Jackson ain’t that some shit SMDH
I remember watching this as an 11yr old really the first time I noticed racism I knew it was not right.
Go hard with ya!
i read the book in urdu and i love this book
No one should be like that.
Didn't know it where the same actor playing Georgie La Forge in Star Trek: the next generation.
Yep. The reading rainbow guy too.
I need to get the series of the roots movie one who can help me am from Tanzania