@@Virjunior01 Nah, I know what real racism was. I lived through it in the 1970s desegregation of the Boston Public Schools. There were parts of the city where if you went there, you might not be coming home, mainly because of the police.
I appreciate this type of film for not shying away from the terrible truth of slavery and the lack of background music alows us to judge the conversation on its own merits
Although this show was a shocking eye opener for many people when it was released. It didn't scratch the surface of the terrible things that must have happened!
@@MrZamberto15 the mere fact of owning a human being as if they where property is immoral. Add to that the horrific mistreatment and abuse that slaves endured and its not even the tip of the iceberg.
@@wastelandsavage you just explained what slavery is. I know what it is. I know its wrong. I wanna see what your logic is in explaining why its wrong. And you're bringing up abuse. Abuse doesn't make slavery and better or worse. That's a compounding issue.
This scene makes me feel so uneasy. Like yeah, she's treated better than a LOT of other slaves, but she still fundamentally has no right to her own life. Even with a happy facade obscuring the true reality.
I have NO idea why this 10-year-old random video was in my feed, but it intrigued me. This giggling giddy blonde is terrifying. I foresee unspeakable horrors await that poor Kizzy.
@@NadinaStryhn yep. You aren't necessarily wrong. But they still segregated their congregation by color... yet they were supposed to be unfied by Christ. Jesus didn't beleive in segregation. They were abolitionists, but "segregationist" too. And I was the first to make oatmeal.
Sandy Duncan is a close friend of one of my friends and I’ve hung out with her a few times. She recalled the Black actors distancing themselves from the a white actors. She didn’t take it personally and understood that the film triggered generational trauma. It must’ve been mortifying to both actors to hear and say those things in this scene
…..Then, could you please let her know what a superb job she did of her role. Some of the finest works of art are borne of creative tensions and given the visceral topic of this seminal series, I am not surprised the cast were so moved. The poignant Quincey Jones main theme still makes hairs on the back of my neck, stand on end.
I would imagine it was difficult to maintain respectable relationships on set.. And made the scenes more authentic and believable… I remember hating Sandy after seeing her.. which means she did an excellent job..
I often wonder how actors deal with some of the things they must do when playing a part. Very often actors play bitter enemies, they play a character who harms another character, and I wonder if there is real life fallout from that. Actors also often have to say things that are bigoted: Carroll O'Connor was Roman Catholic and played the anti-Catholic Archie Bunker and actors who are Jewish, Slavic, and gay have played Nazis.
Superb, affecting acting. I am still disturbed, recalling aged 8, Anne’s apathetic attitude as Kizzy was taken away, struggling and screaming for help. Anne also darn well did recognise her, all those later years. Kizzy showed remarkable restraint only spitting in her water. Should’ve baked her a chocolate custard pie à la ‘The Help’…..
1:40 Wow, that malicious switch up in facial expression and tone of voice-not to mention the threat-chilled me to the bone-but, sadly, is not surprising. 😨😱😭
@@MS-ns2pj she wasn't brainwashed. Anne was the product of over 200 years of slavery. She, her family and her ancestors viewed slavery as their right, which means they did not view slaves as normal human beings. Brainwashed suggests the person is being fooled or coerced. But in this case, it was her world and everyone recognized this. Kizzy would have been brainwashed into actually thinking Anne was her friend when the reality of the situation said such a relationship was not possible. She soon found out the harsh truth.
@@blackknowledgerenewedlook to those that criticize them today. These people knew damned well slavery was wrong. So did the founders, many in fact were friends with abolitionists. In fact many founders weren’t slavers at all and were in fact abolitionists.
Wow…this scene…and that line at 2:12. This is powerful filmmaking, it sheds a light on such a sad truth about how some humans thought they can own other humans
i doubt that many slave masters were surprised by anything, at least in private - deep down, they all knew that slavery was an abomination, but the economics of greed made it palatable - they all read newspapers and knew all about nat turner and elijah lovejoy, 30 years before the civil war
what difference have this with white leftist telling us in a friendly way that we are oppressed and they hold the power therefore they need to save us?
This made me cry knowing that at some point this was reality. To have someone look you in the face and say they’re smarter than you based on skin color when the only reason you’re less knowledgeable is because they ripped you from your home and dragged you some place foreign and taught you the bare minimum. It’s really sick thinking…
Us being smarter has nothing do with skin color alone. It's about genetics, evolution. Whether they'd be ripped away from their homes 5 thousand years ago, 1 thousand years ago, 200 years ago or yesterday their knowledge would be just the same. It happens when weather conditions are great and all you have to is get up in the morning and pluck fresh fruit from the tree. We evolved to conquer harsh elements and people because our conditions were worse. We are smarter because we must be.
@@panwu6602 No you aren’t. The nonsense about black people having a lower IQ than white people comes from some study from the eighties when some stable geniuses thought they could calculate IQ from how rich someone was, which of course left Africa and southeast Asia with ludicrously low scores. If you look at actual testing done in South Africa, France, the US and other places with mixed black and white populations, they generally score within a few percentage points of each other, the remaining difference largely being attributed to access to education. In most places school districts are funded by property taxes, which means rich areas can have four or five times the school budget of a poor area, which disproportionally affects minorities like black people. It is true that Scandinavians and certain Russian ethnicities have larger average brain volume than other groups, but this does not correlate to intelligence, it is the ocular section of the brain which has developed differently due to lower light conditions requiring a widening of the visible spectrum. Genetically, black and white people are more than 99.9% identical, and should have the same rights, freedoms and access to education.
@@panwu6602 You statement demonstrates the need to provide Reparations to American descendants of slavery. Cash Reparations of 1.2 million dollars to each African American slave descendant is a good start. Additional payments, in the form of land grants and tax rebates are also warrented.
The pat at 1:48 is essential to know the non verbal communication of dominance. That’s why I tell these people to keep their hands to themselves. They have an issue and plenty of them have a bias l/ignorance.
I hope you mean “these people” as in certain people and not people who just like to touch without being inappropriate. There’s nothing wrong with friendly touching, and a world where we start to be sensitive about that is a bad world, where we are afraid to even touch your friends. But yes if you’re talking about a certain type of people, I apologize for the misunderstanding
@izzycurer1260 yes ppl who appear to have this obsession with owning ppl. Especially when it involves the association with people of color. It is disgusting that ppl like that can be so ignorant.
Nobody doesn’t want to be a slave like a stricted cage animal & especially..being taken away from their home/village where..? they were born. being a slave isn’t something to be proud of that’s being forced to work for the slave owner that doesn’t belong on the owner property & mistreating them like a dog...eating garbage.🗑
@@dallassegno yes but if, like many slaves of the past AND today, had an option or even A LICK of chance to be able to become a freeman, they would do it in a heartbeat. Like OP said, noone wants to be a slave.
nonsense. most slaves in history didn't try to be free. this is a movie.. it's fiction and it's written to try to push certain ideas and values that don't necessarily reflect reality. Hollywood is full of this rubbish, writing black Americans in period as they are now, instead of as they were then. in fact how they are now has a lot to do with this forced image.
She was an empty-headed little fool. She knew what happened if she taught Kizzy how to read and Kizzy was caught. The rules Dr. Reynolds made were very clear. She just didn't care that Kizzy could be sold away from her Momma and Papa for it.
I think she was supposed to be so used to getting whatever she want and thought of kizzy more of a pet or object to add to her collection than a human being.
Do you remember her from the sequel "Roots; The Next Generation?" Anne showed her true colors in that one. Somebody here had a thread where they mentioned that Sandy Duncan couldn't watch herself in these movies. I don't blame her.
@@eyoung8215 Unlike the Bible, at least Islam teaches that slaves were to be regarded as human beings with dignity and rights and not just as property, and that freeing slaves was a virtuous thing to do.
@@kussemeinkont Islamic countries have an appalling reputation in treatment of slaves. And the slavery mentioned in old testament is indentured slavery which is not what we see in islamic countries today
Roots didn't sugarcoat, fantasize or romanticize the sickness and brutality of slavery. Ironically, a lot of the hard-core movies were hidden in the older movies. You would think how conservative our elders were, they'd hide a lot of this away.
I remember they made us watch all of roots in school and I bawled my eyes out because how could anybody do that to another human being I don't care what color their skin is nobody can own another human being and slavery is just plain evil
.In those times, they believed their actions were justified b/c they had purchased the slaves, the slaves were their property to do as they pleased (beat,rape,etc) b/c their actions were just, they wld not have believed they had anything to feel guilty about.
@@DellaStreet123 AMEN!!!....that belief, made their actions, ok ( There is something seriously wrong with someone/anyone that cld cause someone deliberate pain n sleep at night).
@@hardren101 I think it's not a coincidence that Missy Ann decided to make Kizzy her personal slave at this point -- things look like she'll soon be married, and as a married woman, her husband will be her headship. With Kizzy as a slave, she has someone she can both love and abuse at her own discretion, depending on her mood, just like men were allowed to treat their wives.
@@DellaStreet123 She appeared genuine and she appeared to be a friend.....Sadly, she also appeared superior and better than Kizzie b/c she was white.....I simply never understood why she felt betrayed by Missy-Anne when the individual that she shld have been pissed with was Noah who dropped a dime on her.....Once that line was crossed, their was NOTHING Missy-Ann could no for Kizzy.
@@deja_ You're thinking his motivation for marrying her was the color of her skin? If so then is it even remotely possible that wasn't the case and if so why not?
Before: I haven't seen all of classic Roots, so I am terrified... After: Arent you my friend? Dont you want to be my slave? How can two questions be so diametrically opposed that I had a panic just now?
different times maybe as a friend she is saving her for being owned by someone else someone that could be violent full of hatred as a friend she is keeping her close and away from the possibility of being owned by a wicked man. without the title of ownership another crazy person easily can claim her.
@@bunnyboo6295Hogwash! She dehumanized her. She felt that there was honour in being a slave because that was her lot. Listen to what she says about abolitionists. There is no redeeming quality. She was just a racist bitch!
@@bunnyboo6295 I do not recall the details of the movie, but in this scene she comes off as a spoiled child, and not a good friend. She dismisses Kizzy's arguments, about leaving her home and her parents, entirely, and shows her dark side when abolition is mentioned. She did not say "You could be punished.", she said "I could have you punished.".
2:03 "Dont wanna run into any patrollers after it gets dark." The "patrollers" are now the police. Interesting how nothing has changed. And Miss Anne is going to f Kizzy up later on in the movie.
By the time she reached her elderly years, Kizzy eventually went completely blind and ended up living in the same apartment building as a horribly disfigured assassin with a terrible sense of humor who seemingly couldn't die, despite enduring injuries not compatible with living. She pretended to be annoyed with him whenever he showed up in her apartment, but deep down, she really enjoyed his company.
I remember seeing this as a child and I was so angry! The nerve of this woman! She wanted Kizzy to be ok with being her damn slave and made it seem like it was a great thing! The sad part is there are many people, (particularly in the south where I live), that I know personally, that think the exact same way as Missy Anne does in 2024!
I remember my ex white wife wanted to marry me and if it was ok if I was submissive to her as a hispanic guy. Worst decision of my life. She really loved putting handcuffs and collars on me while whipping me in bed.
And they don't want schools to teach it anymore, and want to pretend that it didn't happen. Too bad, the genie is out of the bottle, everyone knows about it.
I'm pretty sure white southerners think bringing hundreds of thousands of Africans to the U.S. as slaves was probably the biggest mistake we ever made.
About this being a fictional story: doesn't matter. Every bit of it happened to someone at some point in some way, shape or form. We habe to extremely vigilant to keep up a system of society that counters human nature...
I like how they never had the guts of showing the true age of children to slaves. They always happen to be grown adults themselves rather than underage.
You can tell Kizzy is Kunta's daughter here. One might wonder what difference it would make, considered that Kizzy is already enslaved, but becoming Missy Ann's next pet, after the filly -- that's insult to injury. Missy Ann obviously doesn't see the contradiction in wanting Kizzy both as a toy and a friend, but Kizzy does.
Exactly. Missy Ann doesn’t get that Kizzy wants an equal friendship and Kizzy knows that as long as she were to be Missy Ann’s slave it would never be a true friendship… it’s insulting.
@@MalloryNewcomb Actually, Kizzy didn't realize that @ first, she thought Misy Anne was indeed her best friend. Her father Kunta/Toby pointed out that friends don't own each other.
This one scene encapsulates so very much about the attitude and feelings of both sides. How whites were comfortable in something so heinous, justifying it with God and Law as a "natural" thing and blacks voicing their resistance, ever mindful of the violent consequences. I don't agree with today's world excusing itself because this horror existed, but we should never forget that it did and the mindset that let it flourish. It is too easy to imagine the ones who oppose your way as being inferior and less intelligent and to oppress them "for their own good". May God and Man deliver us from this tyranny.
There were divisions within white society over slavery. There were without a doubt white slave owners and their enablers. There were however white abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and John Brown. Some slaves were white, a case in point would be the population of Baltimore, Ireland who were abducted and enslaved in 1631 by a ship from the Barbary states. Black slave owners existed too, eg Mansa Musa, Madame Tinubu and Tippu Tip. I find the practice of slavery to be abhorrent.
I remember watching that whole series back in the 1970s ! I was maybe 13. Wasn’t good memory but sure made me realize how horrible all humans really are to each other, to the environment, to all living things ☹️
@Mahmood42978 Oxford dictionary- an *imagined* state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
All of our ancestors were treated horribly by other folks. And I bet all of our ancestors treated other folk in horrible ways. The whole of humanity and all races were once slaves and once masters. Using and k'ling people left and right. We have to look at tomorrow, concentrate on those good folks, who used their powers to end each of the injustices.
@@Jakub680 yep people dont know about sweat shops, s.e.x s.l.a.v.e.r.y, cobolt mines. We all have products at home produced with s.l.a.v.e.r.y, mostly electronics.
your ancestors also started slavery. Slavery is still alive an well in all of west africa. And even in america via human trafficking. The world is a satanic place.
@@timothyperry3850 Sandy Duncan's own family hated her character in roots. Some of the time her black co-stars gave her the cold shoulder because of who her character represented for them. Some black Americans sent her hate mail as well. This was unfair. Sandy Duncan wasn't missy Ann. She just played her. People should k know the difference between the actress and the part she plays. Sandy Duncan in real life has a warm and upbeat personality and couldn't be more different from Missy Ann.
Nothing evil about Missy Anne. It was Kizzy who forged the traveling pass Missy Anne gave to her, so of course Missy renounced her friendship with Kizzy.
@@wonjubhoy And she did such a great job playing Missy Ann -- such an airhead, both as a young and an elderly woman. I see Missy Ann as someone who is naturally dumb and superficial and who has no issues believing in a doctrine that includes women naturally being less intelligent than man. Who cares, as long as you are white and can own your childhood friend like some kind of talking doll.
I hated Missy Anne when I was little and watched Roots. I adored Kizzy and Anne was so horrible to her. This series taught me so much and really shaped my whole worldview. Such a classic and so very needed to show uncomfortable truths about America.
Maybe Kanye West should watched this show (Roots) before he started spouting nonsense that being a slave was a choice(at the TMZ offices). Kunta Kinte decided he didn’t want to a slave no more so ran away. After being recaptured during the last of his four escape attempts, the slave catchers gave him an ultimatum: he would be castrated or have his right foot cut off. They cut off half of his right foot. Not much of a choice.
I don't know what Kayne actually meant by that (mainly because he is a Trump supporter), but Tubman also said something similar. Only one issue... not all choices are free choices. Conservatives don't want to hear that (Because Bible is based on the concept of freedom of choice). But it is also something that liberals hate to hear, because....
I watched roots as a young teen it shocked me how brutal and awful it was it made my dad cry ,I was crying at it , I can’t stand for injustice and racism. Can’t understand to this day why they ever thought this was right or moral .
I think everyone suffered in the own ways in these days if u didn't have money it was your as. In a way the slave masters was slaves themselves. Most of them were drunks. Gambling all the time always upset about something. No winners in these days.
I remember this scene of the ROOTS movie. I was probably 9 yo or something and I believed miss Anna was the sweetest girl. Only for her to call Kizzie stupid when she saw her crying for her parents after she got sold. I was so confused and didn't know what to make of it.
I haven't felt empathy in decades. I just don't understand it, but I DO understand decency. Everyone should treat their fellow man (and women) how they want to be treated. Slavery is one of the greatest crimes ever committed.
@@ohwell94 Someone unable to feel empathy is most likely a sociopath. But like they said, they can recognize decency and social justice. It looks like empathy but it is not. It's on intellectual level, not emotional.
@@norijean3279 only 2% of the population are empaths. Which is similar to the percentage who are sociopaths. So why does everyone pretend to be empathetic?
@BMFstudiosNYC It’s not merely religion. That’s just a tool that can be used either way. Christ was also used to help abolish slavery. The problem here is pathological altruism and “for the greater good” mentality
Sandy Duncan did such an excellent job, should've gotten an Emmy. The ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing, and she nailed it, how she went from nice to evil just like that!
well without omnipotent, omniscient, all good God the csmic arbiter there is no objective immorality. just nihilism metaphysically. S.l.a.v.e.r.y or no s.l.a.v.e.r.y both are equally amoral.
@@Arguments_only You need to get off your high imaginary horse and stop acting like Christianity invented morals. They existed long before your religion came about (and mind you, it's one of the youngest religions around). It's especially hilarious hearing this all the time (mainly to justify nonsense) given all the insane nonsense that's written in the bible which is anything but morally good, fine and dandy. And much more. Example: Expiring innocent children because your God does not like what a prince of a folk did. Pretty sure it's NOT morally good to target innocents because you have an issue with one single person that is barely connected to the children. So you might wanna be careful with saying the phrase in this show is in any way correct. For multiple reasons at this point.
It's an urban legend that she has a glass eye. Her eye doesn't move because she had a tumor removed from it many years ago and she lost sight in that eye@@fertblu5514
Always loved both of these women. In '97 Leslie Uggams did her cabaret act on a ship I was performing on. Then in '99 I went to see the Broadway revivial of Chicago for the second time and was pleasently supprised to find that Sandy Duncan was playing Roxie Hart!
Really great scene tbh. Shows how true her idea of friendship is at that one moment when she gets hostile and threatening. Very great job from both actresses. I think they did well to portray the personalities of their characters here.
You might want to study history again. The democrats were the supporters of slavery. They are also traditionally, and still to this day the racist ones. They are always making everything about race.
Actually, slavery was a Democrat thing. Lincoln was a Republican. The Democrats fought to KEEP slavery. Once they lost the Civil War, the Democrats fought to keep blacks from voting in the south. The Democrats instituted Jim Crow law in the south. They formed the KKK. Finally, in the 1960s - when the civil rights movement finally made black voting rights inevitable, LBJ and the Democrats enslaved blacks again by instituting welfare rules that destroyed black families. LBJ, the most racist man to ever hold the Presidency, said "if we have to let the n----gers vote - at least we'll keep 'em voting Democrat for the next 100 years"
I don't understand the point of saying how much actors hated these hateful roles. 1) They're actors. This is their job. They were telling a very important story. 2) Of course they're going to say they hate it. Who's going to say they loved being the whip-cracker in a slavery movie? No one. But they had an ALL-STAR cast. This was THE movie to be in at the time. Why? Because of the importance of the film. They should have LOVED their opportunity to be a part of this, not hate it. And I believe they did.
The point is because there are some people who have a hard time distinguishing between the character they see on screen, and the actor playing the role. Another comment in this section mentions that Sandy Duncan received hate mail for this.
The more ppl hate it the more the actor/ actress did their jobs Im not sure ppl realize this ? It’s like the crazy fans who go to a WWE event and want to fight the heel in real life who is just playing a character in the ring . Lol
If you've ever had to act then it's more than just make believe. You really get into character and feel what your character feels. That on top of having to do scenes over and over and over again, hopefully you can understand where the problem was.
Yeah, you just say that because you're a man. And men are just not as smart as women. Except blacks. That's just the way the Big Bang made the world. And you could be punished for even mentioning great again. Be careful.
My ex asked me to explain what the process of me becoming a legal through marriage was like. I sent her this. I honestly shouldn't of tried to make jokes if a green card was on the line
I would die before I'm anyones slave. I have been through hell my entire life, and if you think for a second that I will be a slave for anyone you are sadly mistaken.
Anne is everything you have to be careful of when comes to "nice yt people". She used Kizzy's kindness, naivety and friendship to strip her away from her family be a slave to her. She never cared about Kizzy nor her safety. Kizzy even was gr@ped once got in that family. Still til this day you have to be careful of "nice Yt people" because they tend to be the most deceptive, backstabbers and truly evil ones.
I work with these people in Florida in 2024 they arent a for gone thing of the past, still alive and angry that we are free and able to look them square in the eye and tell them exactly what will and will not be acceptable behavior.
In 1976, the year before "Roots" debuted, Sandy Duncan played Pinocchio in a made-for-TV musical special on CBS (Danny Kaye, Flip Wilson, and Liz Torres co-starred In it),. But for the life of me, I don't know what she had done prior to "Pinocchio" that had catapulted her to stardom. Broadway???
After commercials and a Tony Award nomination, Time Magazine named her one of the "most promising faces of tomorrow" in 1970. Afterwards, in addition to a Disney movie, she had her own sitcom in 1971-1972. It was originally called Funny Face. Then she had her eye tumor. When she came back, the show was revamped and called The Sandy Duncan Show.
How many ships? Owned by who? Traded for what? Who gained from it? Who invested in bringing them? Who sold them? Who bought most of them? Who pushed it? How did they benefit from it? Who then pushed abolition? How did they benefit from it? Who then pushed the Civil War? How did they benefit from it? Who then prevented sending them back to their homelands? Why did they do that? Who sabotaged a nation created for them to have of their own? What was that nation called? The problem is, everyone's got a pat attitude and a pat answer, but they never ask the right questions.
The way they talk about slavery as if it's no big deal is insane to me. I get that at the time this was set it truly was no big deal, but watching this nowadays it feels like it's set on a different planet.
It's easy for the white woman to talk about it as nothing, but she'd be the first to complain if it happened to her. Lucky for her the government and the church though it was God's decision.
Why? Slavery takes place now in most parts of the world. Even in the United States and nations in Europe, there are women used as sex slaves that have been abducted.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Hereditary slavery, where the children of the people you own are also your property and can be sold without your permission, does not exist in Europe or the US. And even less does that slavery exist in which all the slaves are of one etnic origin and all the owners of another. Get real. Stop making excuses. What developed in the Americas was a total disasater for future relationships between the "races".
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important I think the point is it's not the mainsteam view. Aside from being illegal, there's a reason human trafficking these days has to be kept secret. Because most people are disgusted by it.
This is the most evil, inhumane thing I've ever seen in a movie or TV show. It coldly reflects the brutal reality of the time, and the fact that there's no real malice makes it even more disturbing.
I remember toward the end of the show when kizzy was an old lady and she ran into the White woman who was also of course old.. she had no memory of Kizi and kizzy spit in her water unbeknownst to her. Cool scene
That sounds like something that someone who looks like Kizzy would do. Hold a grudge for decades, and then act vengefully towards someone who seems to have the mental capacity of a child.
@@kevincorcoran6493 Then you've an angry and vengeful individual, or you haven't watched this clip. I will again emphasize that the white woman is clearly portrayed as dimwitted and childlike in mentality.
@@davidjames579he gasped when found out trump started working on McDonald's and in his haste to repost it he dropped his pizza on the floor, in front of his high school crush who saw him struggling to kneel down in order to pick it back up. But that wasn't the worse of it. He was hungry and very, so very FAT which as you can imagine meant his hunger was insatiable and in that moment of utter self loathing he decided to eat the pizza. The very same he dropped on the floor, again and in front of his crush nonetheless. It was a sad sad year.
![Former Slave Owner Interview in 1929 [Colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Le794ObMGm0/mqdefault.jpg)
She sees Kizzy as a pet, not a friend. Even if a slave is treated well, they’re still a slave.
Exactly!
Quite true! Sandy Duncan did an excellent job of suggesting that attitude.
At least I remember the name of my pets!!!!! Of my black cat, I can never imagine myself saying " I know of no darkie by that name "
Free your dogs , cats and horses .
@@Amateur_Pianist_472 like now
"I'll protect you always" followed by "I'd have you punished if we weren't friends" 2 minutes later.
But she was her friend . So all gucci
and white women are still the same way!
Niggas like to do that too
She couldn't protect her if she wanted to.
Somehow this is more disturbing than if it was said with malice
It’s particularly because she’s so gleeful, cockeyed, and looks like a buzzard, all simultaneously.
Does a black man want to be slave to Sandy Duncan, I don't think so.
Because malice is not ignorant of itself.
This is how it feels working with white women in corporate. Manipulative as all hell
yes because she believes its love
This is so damn creepy.
It’s like I’m watching something that’s pretending to be human and hasn’t realised how terribly its disguise has failed.
Correct. That's white society.
That's still today. It's just got "better" masks.
@@Virjunior01 Nah, I know what real racism was. I lived through it in the 1970s desegregation of the Boston Public Schools. There were parts of the city where if you went there, you might not be coming home, mainly because of the police.
Perfect example of manipulative gas lighting. Very scary human behaviour.
Like modern dqy bigots pretending they dont understand bigots, or wish death upon others while saying "prolife" in the same sentence
I appreciate this type of film for not shying away from the terrible truth of slavery and the lack of background music alows us to judge the conversation on its own merits
Although this show was a shocking eye opener for many people when it was released. It didn't scratch the surface of the terrible things that must have happened!
@@wastelandsavage So I also agree slavery is wrong. But im curious to know why you personally think its wrong?
@@GnrMilligan Like what? 😂😂
Go read their interviews. More of them were pissed that they had to go live with the poor whites than happy to be free.
@@MrZamberto15 the mere fact of owning a human being as if they where property is immoral. Add to that the horrific mistreatment and abuse that slaves endured and its not even the tip of the iceberg.
@@wastelandsavage you just explained what slavery is. I know what it is. I know its wrong. I wanna see what your logic is in explaining why its wrong. And you're bringing up abuse. Abuse doesn't make slavery and better or worse. That's a compounding issue.
That big smile and talk of friendship faded real quick when Kizzie brought up abolition, huh? 😡
You can see the light leaving her eyes. Great acting!
Very much like when you're trying to talk to a Trump supporter
@@auntiefan4202 Explain how?
It came to me much sooner than that. but yes the smile left the room then in an out and in.
@@IronHorse1854 shes tarded.. thought it was clever.. she wont reply
Just because it's legal doesn't make it right!
Like taxes
@@zephyrr108 You have a point!
Agreed...that's why the Donald Trump trial is b.s..
It's just made up "legal fiction"..
U agree?
Like abortion
& covid lockdowns
This scene makes me feel so uneasy. Like yeah, she's treated better than a LOT of other slaves, but she still fundamentally has no right to her own life. Even with a happy facade obscuring the true reality.
This is the exact same logic Florida is using to rewrite history curriculum lol
@ Good lord don't remind me that Florida exists.
The Roman slaves had it way better, and yet slavery still sucked for them too :D
I mean this is way better than many other scenarios honestly, I would give it a 8/10 for the period.
It's her insolence that makes her sound so evil... She sees kizzy as her favorite object. Not a friend ( A LESSER THAN)
Kizzy* :)
Innocence
@@HeldIntegral .... contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech. the quality or condition of being (INSOLENT)
@@HeldIntegral If this is what innocence looks like, then it's a really good example of when innocence becomes evil. Knowingly, intentionally, or not.
This is the strangest episode of little house on the prairie I’ve ever seen.
🤣
It’s from roots.
😂
Sherlock Holmes we know. Comment flew right over your head
HAHA!... Good one.
Bruh this wasn’t even a horror movie and yet it sent chills down my spine
Probably because shit like this happened
Facts 💯
Seriously. The white woman acts so friendly, and yet there's a constant threat sitting between them, unspoken.
Brady Bunch and The Hogan Family is I can think of watching this clip besides the bs racism
The creepiest part of Roots for me is watching OJ Simpson effortlessly run down and overpower Levar Burton.
She didn't see her as a friend, she saw her as a pet.
Same as the democrats still do to this day
@@mackjones8409the Klan votes Republican
So basically she would be a "white ally" if she was alive today
Hey pets are family.
@@HowieHoward-ti3dx That's crazy.
Friends don’t keep friends as slaves
Really?
Yes really
@@ericpetteway3841 whaaaaaat?!
@@RammingSpeed-lk8kkwhat is your problem?
well, it all depends on how you define friendship - if you need further clarity on this issue, just ask a democrat
I have NO idea why this 10-year-old random video was in my feed, but it intrigued me. This giggling giddy blonde is terrifying. I foresee unspeakable horrors await that poor Kizzy.
Watch this full episode from ROOTS the mini-series -- you will find out what happens.
That comment about Quakers being evil took me out lol
Lol... it wasn't totally a lie.
They were the first to be completely against slavery.
@@NadinaStryhn yep. You aren't necessarily wrong. But they still segregated their congregation by color... yet they were supposed to be unfied by Christ. Jesus didn't beleive in segregation. They were abolitionists, but "segregationist" too.
And I was the first to make oatmeal.
Just look at the oatmeal can, so smug, I almost feel he's not telling me something about his oats
@@NadinaStryhn they were also pacificists and southerners were quite bellicose
The subtle horror of this scene and the performances are incredible
They both acted their asses off in that scene. Absolutely cringeworthy and jaw dropping.
LMAOOO
Sandy Duncan is a close friend of one of my friends and I’ve hung out with her a few times. She recalled the Black actors distancing themselves from the a white actors. She didn’t take it personally and understood that the film triggered generational trauma. It must’ve been mortifying to both actors to hear and say those things in this scene
…..Then, could you please let her know what a superb job she did of her role. Some of the finest works of art are borne of creative tensions and given the visceral topic of this seminal series, I am not surprised the cast were so moved.
The poignant Quincey Jones main theme still makes hairs on the back of my neck, stand on end.
I would imagine it was difficult to maintain respectable relationships on set.. And made the scenes more authentic and believable… I remember hating Sandy after seeing her.. which means she did an excellent job..
I often wonder how actors deal with some of the things they must do when playing a part. Very often actors play bitter enemies, they play a character who harms another character, and I wonder if there is real life fallout from that. Actors also often have to say things that are bigoted: Carroll O'Connor was Roman Catholic and played the anti-Catholic Archie Bunker and actors who are Jewish, Slavic, and gay have played Nazis.
“generational trauma”
Lmao
U are a bit like Kizzy. Oblivious. So was Sandy.
Superb, affecting acting.
I am still disturbed, recalling aged 8, Anne’s apathetic attitude as Kizzy was taken away, struggling and screaming for help. Anne also darn well did recognise her, all those later years. Kizzy showed remarkable restraint only spitting in her water. Should’ve baked her a chocolate custard pie à la ‘The Help’…..
Excellent comment.
@@whoputyouontheplanet3345
Thank you for your kind words.
@@zacetto You're welcome.
And what a custard pie a la the help it would have been
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
Dominica 🇩🇲
@@kbgregoire1
……I fully concur!
1:40 Wow, that malicious switch up in facial expression and tone of voice-not to mention the threat-chilled me to the bone-but, sadly, is not surprising. 😨😱😭
The actress did such a good job- maybe a little *too* good 😅
And it still happens today
Why not surprising?
@ because of how cold and cruel people can be
@@luna_nova_09 I think she had fun with this too 😂
It was Kunta's worst nightmare to see Kizzy become close to Anne. He was right.
AMEN!
Parents usually are.
Anne was brainwashed.
@@MS-ns2pj she wasn't brainwashed. Anne was the product of over 200 years of slavery. She, her family and her ancestors viewed slavery as their right, which means they did not view slaves as normal human beings. Brainwashed suggests the person is being fooled or coerced. But in this case, it was her world and everyone recognized this. Kizzy would have been brainwashed into actually thinking Anne was her friend when the reality of the situation said such a relationship was not possible. She soon found out the harsh truth.
can someone spoil it for me
That scene where they meet later in life and Kizzy spits in her water is still my favorite scene in the series!
I loved that part
Mine too.
Like the scene in The Help.. Poo cake 👍
I need to watch that scene again
I never saw her spit in the water!
Fba😂😂
This is like a horror movie.
Ik I was just thinking I'm so glad I'm not a slave
It’s like the movie called Get Out
It feels creepy to me too💯
Yet, this was normal thinking. Wonder what will be thought of our ideologies a century from now.
@@blackknowledgerenewedlook to those that criticize them today. These people knew damned well slavery was wrong. So did the founders, many in fact were friends with abolitionists. In fact many founders weren’t slavers at all and were in fact abolitionists.
Wow…this scene…and that line at 2:12. This is powerful filmmaking, it sheds a light on such a sad truth about how some humans thought they can own other humans
Sad human trafficking 😢
@@BrisciaVasquez Very, very sad. Still a problem to this day.
Well you do realize not even human is equal right? We can all agree to that.
I like how later on in the movie kizzy spit in her cup for acting like she wasn't her best friend and not knowing her
That was right on!!!!!!!!
@@jeffreycone7504 damn right, I hope Missy Anne Reynolds rots in hell, that traitor, that b*tch!
I always wondered, did she really not remember her, or was she pretending not to.
@@Boaz833 white people in those days definitely would remember a black
@@Boaz833 she was obviously pretending not to, why else would Kizzy spit in her cup? she was nothing but a lying, traitorous b*tch!
She was like so many! Many enslavers were surprised that the enslaved would try to escape on Christmas because they had some meager gifts for them!😢
i doubt that many slave masters were surprised by anything, at least in private - deep down, they all knew that slavery was an abomination, but the economics of greed made it palatable - they all read newspapers and knew all about nat turner and elijah lovejoy, 30 years before the civil war
what difference have this with white leftist telling us in a friendly way that we are oppressed and they hold the power therefore they need to save us?
I hear many people thought the desire to be free was a form of mental illness.
this was PURE FICTION.
@@danielgriffith8911 according to what?
How she said those lines perfectly, and with joy, is nuts.
She loves using the Hard R
back then they didnt know any better
Good acting (and hopefully just that lol)
It’s her true feelings that’s why. Asking another human if they want to be your slave. Obsessed with black people period.
It's called acting.
Grateful the South lost that war. This terrible existence is beyond twisted.
Even Tarantino couldn't write it crazy like this😂
Fba😂😂😂
Your ancestors were the real FBAs.
@@hotties3v3nWhat's an "FBA" and why do I feel like it's something only terminally online people obsessed with politics know about?
This made me cry knowing that at some point this was reality. To have someone look you in the face and say they’re smarter than you based on skin color when the only reason you’re less knowledgeable is because they ripped you from your home and dragged you some place foreign and taught you the bare minimum. It’s really sick thinking…
I agree. And it must be even more sickening to realise that it's your own people that are the ones catching you and selling you to foreigners.
Us being smarter has nothing do with skin color alone. It's about genetics, evolution. Whether they'd be ripped away from their homes 5 thousand years ago, 1 thousand years ago, 200 years ago or yesterday their knowledge would be just the same. It happens when weather conditions are great and all you have to is get up in the morning and pluck fresh fruit from the tree. We evolved to conquer harsh elements and people because our conditions were worse. We are smarter because we must be.
@@panwu6602 No you aren’t. The nonsense about black people having a lower IQ than white people comes from some study from the eighties when some stable geniuses thought they could calculate IQ from how rich someone was, which of course left Africa and southeast Asia with ludicrously low scores. If you look at actual testing done in South Africa, France, the US and other places with mixed black and white populations, they generally score within a few percentage points of each other, the remaining difference largely being attributed to access to education. In most places school districts are funded by property taxes, which means rich areas can have four or five times the school budget of a poor area, which disproportionally affects minorities like black people.
It is true that Scandinavians and certain Russian ethnicities have larger average brain volume than other groups, but this does not correlate to intelligence, it is the ocular section of the brain which has developed differently due to lower light conditions requiring a widening of the visible spectrum. Genetically, black and white people are more than 99.9% identical, and should have the same rights, freedoms and access to education.
@@panwu6602 Nice bait
@@panwu6602 You statement demonstrates the need to provide Reparations to American descendants of slavery. Cash Reparations of 1.2 million dollars to each African American slave descendant is a good start. Additional payments, in the form of land grants and tax rebates are also warrented.
Sandy Duncan proved she could play any part
Even a pre-pubescent boy who lives in forever land.
No matter what age Duncan played, she always seemed to be about seven years old.
So many of the actors in this miniseries excelled in producing top flight performances that didn’t seem like performances.
The pat at 1:48 is essential to know the non verbal communication of dominance. That’s why I tell these people to keep their hands to themselves. They have an issue and plenty of them have a bias l/ignorance.
I hope you mean “these people” as in certain people and not people who just like to touch without being inappropriate. There’s nothing wrong with friendly touching, and a world where we start to be sensitive about that is a bad world, where we are afraid to even touch your friends. But yes if you’re talking about a certain type of people, I apologize for the misunderstanding
These people?
@izzycurer1260 yes ppl who appear to have this obsession with owning ppl. Especially when it involves the association with people of color. It is disgusting that ppl like that can be so ignorant.
Touching me is absolutely NOT OK, and if you do you will be told as much emphatically.
@@izzycurer1260 you and of visuals
Kizzy probably never dreamed helping Noah escape would ruin her. Poor girl. Just shows, no matter how ‘good’ they got it, no one wants to be a slave.
Nobody doesn’t want to be a slave like a stricted cage animal & especially..being taken away from their home/village where..? they were born. being a slave isn’t something to be proud of that’s being forced to work for the slave owner that doesn’t belong on the owner property & mistreating them like a dog...eating garbage.🗑
Lots of people would prefer slavery to starvation or death. No wonder slavery is so popular.
@@dallassegnowhere and who are these people you speak of ?
@@dallassegno yes but if, like many slaves of the past AND today, had an option or even A LICK of chance to be able to become a freeman, they would do it in a heartbeat. Like OP said, noone wants to be a slave.
nonsense.
most slaves in history didn't try to be free.
this is a movie.. it's fiction and it's written to try to push certain ideas and values that don't necessarily reflect reality.
Hollywood is full of this rubbish, writing black Americans in period as they are now, instead of as they were then. in fact how they are now has a lot to do with this forced image.
The white girl looks like Nellie from little house on the prairie
Not even close.
nahhh, a little bit tho
She looks like the older version ngl
@@cjmarshall0221 Sandy Duncan.
Or Nancy
With friends like that, who needs a enemy.
Right. Her friendship is not real friendship. And Kunta could see it.
Exactly!
@@RanaOwens-wt1itExactly!
@@diamondjack-cooper5322 Exactly!
an
“Roots” is the most terrifying and disturbing horror film I’ve ever seen in my life. I still have nightmares from it.
It’s actually not a horror story. It’s based on a real family. Sometimes reality is the most horrific story.
Wuss
@@LILBABYBOBBYHILLRacist
It's just a movie.
@@lootiecrussbut its not just a movie. It was based on alex haley's real familial experiences.
Missy Anne was a backstabber.
She was an empty-headed little fool. She knew what happened if she taught Kizzy how to read and Kizzy was caught. The rules Dr. Reynolds made were very clear. She just didn't care that Kizzy could be sold away from her Momma and Papa for it.
@@RanaOwens-wt1it oui mais le monsieur Reynolds cest un mauvais
@@dmmchugh3714 She never thought of Kizzy as human.
I mean she was white and a slave owner so yup
@@dmmchugh3714 Missy Anne wanted some Thug Dikc deep down too!
This scene pissed me off. She was obsessed with her very weird
I think she was supposed to be so used to getting whatever she want and thought of kizzy more of a pet or object to add to her collection than a human being.
Back then they didn't have TV or Supercomputers that fit in your pocket..
You didn't have constant relentless dopamine hit stimulation
Do you remember her from the sequel "Roots; The Next Generation?" Anne showed her true colors in that one. Somebody here had a thread where they mentioned that Sandy Duncan couldn't watch herself in these movies. I don't blame her.
Very!
@@RammingSpeed-lk8kk and?
When this series was made, slavery was still legal in Mauritania. They abolished it in 1981.
They didn't actually make it illegal until 2006 and that's not actually enforced either
Muslim countries like Mauritania don't have a problem in principle with slavery
Slavery is still legal in quite a few parts of the world. Namely the middle east and Asia.
@@eyoung8215 Unlike the Bible, at least Islam teaches that slaves were to be regarded as human beings with dignity and rights and not just as property, and that freeing slaves was a virtuous thing to do.
@@kussemeinkont Islamic countries have an appalling reputation in treatment of slaves. And the slavery mentioned in old testament is indentured slavery which is not what we see in islamic countries today
Roots didn't sugarcoat, fantasize or romanticize the sickness and brutality of slavery. Ironically, a lot of the hard-core movies were hidden in the older movies. You would think how conservative our elders were, they'd hide a lot of this away.
I remember they made us watch all of roots in school and I bawled my eyes out because how could anybody do that to another human being I don't care what color their skin is nobody can own another human being and slavery is just plain evil
.In those times, they believed their actions were justified b/c they had purchased the slaves, the slaves were their property to do as they pleased (beat,rape,etc) b/c their actions were just, they wld not have believed they had anything to feel guilty about.
@@hardren101 To put it with Missy Ann: It's legal!
@@DellaStreet123 AMEN!!!....that belief, made their actions, ok ( There is something seriously wrong with someone/anyone that cld cause someone deliberate pain n sleep at night).
@@hardren101 I think it's not a coincidence that Missy Ann decided to make Kizzy her personal slave at this point -- things look like she'll soon be married, and as a married woman, her husband will be her headship. With Kizzy as a slave, she has someone she can both love and abuse at her own discretion, depending on her mood, just like men were allowed to treat their wives.
@@DellaStreet123 She appeared genuine and she appeared to be a friend.....Sadly, she also appeared superior and better than Kizzie b/c she was white.....I simply never understood why she felt betrayed by Missy-Anne when the individual that she shld have been pissed with was Noah who dropped a dime on her.....Once that line was crossed, their was NOTHING Missy-Ann could no for Kizzy.
RIP John Amos. I'm guessing his departure today is the reason why this popped up on my feed.
John Amos and his white wife hahahaha Roots my behind😅
@@deja_ You're thinking his motivation for marrying her was the color of her skin? If so then is it even remotely possible that wasn't the case and if so why not?
@@doktormcnastyExactly I mean so what he still solid in my BOOK 📖 R.I.P JOHN AMOS
Before: I haven't seen all of classic Roots, so I am terrified...
After: Arent you my friend? Dont you want to be my slave? How can two questions be so diametrically opposed that I had a panic just now?
different times maybe as a friend she is saving her for being owned by someone else someone that could be violent full of hatred as a friend she is keeping her close and away from the possibility of being owned by a wicked man. without the title of ownership another crazy person easily can claim her.
@@bunnyboo6295Hogwash! She dehumanized her. She felt that there was honour in being a slave because that was her lot. Listen to what she says about abolitionists. There is no redeeming quality. She was just a racist bitch!
@@bunnyboo6295 I do not recall the details of the movie, but in this scene she comes off as a spoiled child, and not a good friend. She dismisses Kizzy's arguments, about leaving her home and her parents, entirely, and shows her dark side when abolition is mentioned. She did not say "You could be punished.", she said "I could have you punished.".
@@itoibo4208 Wow that is dark she already planning to punish rather than concern that she could be punished if stuck with another.
You need to get out more into the real world.
2:03 "Dont wanna run into any patrollers after it gets dark."
The "patrollers" are now the police. Interesting how nothing has changed. And Miss Anne is going to f Kizzy up later on in the movie.
By the time she reached her elderly years, Kizzy eventually went completely blind and ended up living in the same apartment building as a horribly disfigured assassin with a terrible sense of humor who seemingly couldn't die, despite enduring injuries not compatible with living. She pretended to be annoyed with him whenever he showed up in her apartment, but deep down, she really enjoyed his company.
Omg..
Wait these two character where played by the same person?
@@badpikachuuYes , actress Leslie Uggams.
Lmfaooo fuck sake 🤣😂 I just put the 2's together.
Holy fucking shit....it just clicked in my head as I was reading this, that it's the same person! That's insane!
I remember seeing this as a child and I was so angry! The nerve of this woman! She wanted Kizzy to be ok with being her damn slave and made it seem like it was a great thing! The sad part is there are many people, (particularly in the south where I live), that I know personally, that think the exact same way as Missy Anne does in 2024!
What b.s. Nobody thinks of having someone as a slave in 2024 in America. Stop the race-baiting.
There are ignorant racists of every color all over the world. It’s not just relegated to the southern US, or just white people.
I remember my ex white wife wanted to marry me and if it was ok if I was submissive to her as a hispanic guy. Worst decision of my life. She really loved putting handcuffs and collars on me while whipping me in bed.
And they don't want schools to teach it anymore, and want to pretend that it didn't happen. Too bad, the genie is out of the bottle, everyone knows about it.
I'm pretty sure white southerners think bringing hundreds of thousands of Africans to the U.S. as slaves was probably the biggest mistake we ever made.
Moral of the story……ALWAYS listen to your father.
So true...so true 😔
Yes, if you ever see him.
That really depends on the father in question
Oh 100% :/@@zakosist
Depends on the father...
About this being a fictional story: doesn't matter. Every bit of it happened to someone at some point in some way, shape or form.
We habe to extremely vigilant to keep up a system of society that counters human nature...
You could say that about literally any piece of fiction. Who cares.
The fact Missy Anne sounds and looks like an innocent person makes this even more sad for Kizzy
She didn’t sound and look innocent when Kizzy mentioned the abolitionist....
@@tessax correct.
Whyt girls here in the south still flounch the ditsy innocent look, but have evil in their eyes when they see others being free minded or confident.
Well if you don't know what an abolitionist is...
She sounds like a witch.
This turned my stomach years ago. And, its turning my stomach now!!
Lol. Get a grip 😂😂😂
@@zephyrr108Not funny !!
If it does not turn yours ,then you are a sick human @zephyrr108
Cry harder
@@Shazam961 It was a movie.... and clearly had some comedy in it as in how stupid the girl was etc.
I think what's all the more scary is that there's still people like this still to this day
Yes, and there are way too many of them and they'd probably bring it all back if they had half a chance.
@@Carol120454 FR. What’s even scarier is that in some countries the slave trade of Black people only ended in THE 50S!
1:12: 'just don't understand it, I guess.'
That hit harder than Kizzy knew, and as hard as the actress probably intended.
I like how they never had the guts of showing the true age of children to slaves. They always happen to be grown adults themselves rather than underage.
You can tell Kizzy is Kunta's daughter here. One might wonder what difference it would make, considered that Kizzy is already enslaved, but becoming Missy Ann's next pet, after the filly -- that's insult to injury. Missy Ann obviously doesn't see the contradiction in wanting Kizzy both as a toy and a friend, but Kizzy does.
Exactly. Missy Ann doesn’t get that Kizzy wants an equal friendship and Kizzy knows that as long as she were to be Missy Ann’s slave it would never be a true friendship… it’s insulting.
You mean Toby’s daughter, do you want me to get the whip out !
Fictional characters.
@@MalloryNewcomb Actually, Kizzy didn't realize that @ first, she thought Misy Anne was indeed her best friend. Her father Kunta/Toby pointed out that friends don't own each other.
Indeed he did , in the book it was Belle who thought otherwise!!!!
This one scene encapsulates so very much about the attitude and feelings of both sides. How whites were comfortable in something so heinous, justifying it with God and Law as a "natural" thing and blacks voicing their resistance, ever mindful of the violent consequences. I don't agree with today's world excusing itself because this horror existed, but we should never forget that it did and the mindset that let it flourish. It is too easy to imagine the ones who oppose your way as being inferior and less intelligent and to oppress them "for their own good". May God and Man deliver us from this tyranny.
Those last two sentences remind me of the recent pandemic.
They were voting with their wallets
They were sold into slavery by their black African masters.
There were divisions within white society over slavery. There were without a doubt white slave owners and their enablers. There were however white abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and John Brown. Some slaves were white, a case in point would be the population of Baltimore, Ireland who were abducted and enslaved in 1631 by a ship from the Barbary states. Black slave owners existed too, eg Mansa Musa, Madame Tinubu and Tippu Tip. I find the practice of slavery to be abhorrent.
How were whites comfortable with something so "heinous" yet white people are the only people on earth who abolished it?
Racism, kills.💔😞 0:22
I remember watching that whole series back in the 1970s ! I was maybe 13. Wasn’t good memory but sure made me realize how horrible all humans really are to each other, to the environment, to all living things ☹️
Fact
White humans
Some white people wish they go back.it would not be like they think .
Yeah, some humans suck so badly.
This is dystopian and it was real life.
No, 1984 is dystopian. This is historical fiction. Very different.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important And yet still very dystopian.
@Mahmood42978 dystopian has to be a fictional society :(
@@JackRobinson14 not necessarily.
@Mahmood42978 Oxford dictionary- an *imagined* state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
There is certainly a lot to unpack here. Multiple levels of evil.
Both this and the Dahomey tribe are pure evil.
why evil, she was doing her best for the girl in the circumstances
Where to start huh? I saw episode 1 of Roots as a little boy when it came out in 1977 and the trauma hit me and my family like a freight train.
@@rockgsxr If you cannot see why this is evil, you're part of the problem.
@@homework.journal wow didn't realize you had been a slave
She treated her like a pet. Threw her under the bus. I hate this. What my ancestors went through.
Yes sir! Certainly makes a person look at humanity.
All of our ancestors were treated horribly by other folks. And I bet all of our ancestors treated other folk in horrible ways. The whole of humanity and all races were once slaves and once masters. Using and k'ling people left and right.
We have to look at tomorrow, concentrate on those good folks, who used their powers to end each of the injustices.
Bro slavery is still alive just not where you live
@@Jakub680 yep people dont know about sweat shops, s.e.x s.l.a.v.e.r.y, cobolt mines.
We all have products at home produced with s.l.a.v.e.r.y, mostly electronics.
your ancestors also started slavery. Slavery is still alive an well in all of west africa. And even in america via human trafficking. The world is a satanic place.
Sandy Duncan's character was so evil she couldn't even watch roots.
Everybody played their part extremely well when an actor/ actress cannot even watch their role it must Mean that they did one hell of a job
@@timothyperry3850 when you hate the character but you love the actor
@@timothyperry3850 Sandy Duncan's own family hated her character in roots. Some of the time her black co-stars gave her the cold shoulder because of who her character represented for them. Some black Americans sent her hate mail as well. This was unfair. Sandy Duncan wasn't missy Ann. She just played her. People should k know the difference between the actress and the part she plays. Sandy Duncan in real life has a warm and upbeat personality and couldn't be more different from Missy Ann.
Nothing evil about Missy Anne. It was Kizzy who forged the traveling pass Missy Anne gave to her, so of course Missy renounced her friendship with Kizzy.
@@wonjubhoy And she did such a great job playing Missy Ann -- such an airhead, both as a young and an elderly woman. I see Missy Ann as someone who is naturally dumb and superficial and who has no issues believing in a doctrine that includes women naturally being less intelligent than man. Who cares, as long as you are white and can own your childhood friend like some kind of talking doll.
I hated Missy Anne when I was little and watched Roots. I adored Kizzy and Anne was so horrible to her. This series taught me so much and really shaped my whole worldview. Such a classic and so very needed to show uncomfortable truths about America.
Maybe Kanye West should watched this show (Roots) before he started spouting nonsense that being a slave was a choice(at the TMZ offices). Kunta Kinte decided he didn’t want to a slave no more so ran away. After being recaptured during the last of his four escape attempts, the slave catchers gave him an ultimatum: he would be castrated or have his right foot cut off. They cut off half of his right foot. Not much of a choice.
I always thought Kanye West was a jerk even before he said that. 😏
I don't know what Kayne actually meant by that (mainly because he is a Trump supporter), but Tubman also said something similar.
Only one issue... not all choices are free choices. Conservatives don't want to hear that (Because Bible is based on the concept of freedom of choice). But it is also something that liberals hate to hear, because....
Missy Ann has that perfect Bioshock creepiness to the role.
I watched roots as a young teen it shocked me how brutal and awful it was it made my dad cry ,I was crying at it , I can’t stand for injustice and racism. Can’t understand to this day why they ever thought this was right or moral .
This movie was kids play compared to what people actually lived through.
The movie was awful or the reality that it depicted?
I think everyone suffered in the own ways in these days if u didn't have money it was your as. In a way the slave masters was slaves themselves. Most of them were drunks. Gambling all the time always upset about something. No winners in these days.
@@witcheshour9718there is absolutely no comparison to someone having literally no rights and someone willingly drinking and gambling their money away
I remember this scene of the ROOTS movie. I was probably 9 yo or something and I believed miss Anna was the sweetest girl. Only for her to call Kizzie stupid when she saw her crying for her parents after she got sold. I was so confused and didn't know what to make of it.
I haven't felt empathy in decades. I just don't understand it, but I DO understand decency. Everyone should treat their fellow man (and women) how they want to be treated. Slavery is one of the greatest crimes ever committed.
Thats empathy with dashes of decency thrown in
@@ohwell94 Someone unable to feel empathy is most likely a sociopath. But like they said, they can recognize decency and social justice. It looks like empathy but it is not. It's on intellectual level, not emotional.
Well then I have bad news for you. There’s more slaves in this day and age than there has ever been.
not everyone on this planet agrees with the golden rule or the Gospel of Christ - evil has always been, and will continue to be, a part of humanity
@@norijean3279 only 2% of the population are empaths. Which is similar to the percentage who are sociopaths. So why does everyone pretend to be empathetic?
My boss talking to me.
This scene is so demonic and full of the devil's view
Fr
I'm pretty sure satan sees us as nothing more then earthly animals this is just dumb human stuff etc racism
and yet back then, it wasn't the "devil's view" ....ironic, huh? Religious people being religious🤣
@@BMFstudiosNYC true, Islam is world famous for its historic and modern slave trade
@BMFstudiosNYC It’s not merely religion. That’s just a tool that can be used either way. Christ was also used to help abolish slavery. The problem here is pathological altruism and “for the greater good” mentality
It’s like a weird Black Mirror universe. Strange people, strange world
Black Mirror is overrated schlock
Sandy Duncan did such an excellent job, should've gotten an Emmy. The ultimate wolf in sheep's clothing, and she nailed it, how she went from nice to evil just like that!
"That's the way god made it" is the beginning of immorality.
Which is funny when you consider christians act like they invented morals. 😂
well without omnipotent, omniscient, all good God the csmic arbiter there is no objective immorality.
just nihilism metaphysically. S.l.a.v.e.r.y or no s.l.a.v.e.r.y both are equally amoral.
@@Arguments_only You need to get off your high imaginary horse and stop acting like Christianity invented morals. They existed long before your religion came about (and mind you, it's one of the youngest religions around).
It's especially hilarious hearing this all the time (mainly to justify nonsense) given all the insane nonsense that's written in the bible which is anything but morally good, fine and dandy. And much more. Example: Expiring innocent children because your God does not like what a prince of a folk did. Pretty sure it's NOT morally good to target innocents because you have an issue with one single person that is barely connected to the children.
So you might wanna be careful with saying the phrase in this show is in any way correct. For multiple reasons at this point.
Lol she felt so happy saying the n word with her lazy eye.
its a glass eye in fact
It's an urban legend that she has a glass eye. Her eye doesn't move because she had a tumor removed from it many years ago and she lost sight in that eye@@fertblu5514
No wonder Peter Griffin and Glen Quagmire did not work out for her...
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@@fertblu5514 real glass eye? she has one eye?
@@MixedChick1 No “glass” eye. But somewhat blind in one eye.
Always loved both of these women. In '97 Leslie Uggams did her cabaret act on a ship I was performing on. Then in '99 I went to see the Broadway revivial of Chicago for the second time and was pleasently supprised to find that Sandy Duncan was playing Roxie Hart!
That blonde girl is the embodiment of pure evil
Not really. If you had grown up like that you would have been the same, as anyone else would have.
The definition of ignorance she couldn't see izzy as a human being
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important How do you explain ppl who grow up to be abolitionist who has slave owner parents?
@@anynomous6048 An anomaly. It was rare.
No. It was the time. She only knows what she knows.
Really great scene tbh. Shows how true her idea of friendship is at that one moment when she gets hostile and threatening.
Very great job from both actresses. I think they did well to portray the personalities of their characters here.
This is what they mean by "Make America Great Again" (don't be fooled)
You might want to study history again. The democrats were the supporters of slavery. They are also traditionally, and still to this day the racist ones. They are always making everything about race.
Everybody knows the statetof blacks with singkemoms and drug dealers in prison and also planned parenthood is made to control black population
Prove it
Actually, slavery was a Democrat thing. Lincoln was a Republican. The Democrats fought to KEEP slavery. Once they lost the Civil War, the Democrats fought to keep blacks from voting in the south. The Democrats instituted Jim Crow law in the south. They formed the KKK.
Finally, in the 1960s - when the civil rights movement finally made black voting rights inevitable, LBJ and the Democrats enslaved blacks again by instituting welfare rules that destroyed black families.
LBJ, the most racist man to ever hold the Presidency, said "if we have to let the n----gers vote - at least we'll keep 'em voting Democrat for the next 100 years"
So what you're saying is that I'm planning to buy myself?
I don't understand the point of saying how much actors hated these hateful roles. 1) They're actors. This is their job. They were telling a very important story. 2) Of course they're going to say they hate it. Who's going to say they loved being the whip-cracker in a slavery movie? No one.
But they had an ALL-STAR cast. This was THE movie to be in at the time. Why? Because of the importance of the film. They should have LOVED their opportunity to be a part of this, not hate it. And I believe they did.
The point is because there are some people who have a hard time distinguishing between the character they see on screen, and the actor playing the role. Another comment in this section mentions that Sandy Duncan received hate mail for this.
The more ppl hate it the more the actor/ actress did their jobs Im not sure ppl realize this ? It’s like the crazy fans who go to a WWE event and want to fight the heel in real life who is just playing a character in the ring . Lol
If you've ever had to act then it's more than just make believe. You really get into character and feel what your character feels.
That on top of having to do scenes over and over and over again, hopefully you can understand where the problem was.
@@MrZega000method acting is a meme
@@blazzinga595 Your face is a meme.
This is the “great again” they are trying to get back to
Vivek would like a word with you. And the people of chicago
Yeah, you just say that because you're a man. And men are just not as smart as women. Except blacks. That's just the way the Big Bang made the world. And you could be punished for even mentioning great again. Be careful.
No it isn't. You know nothing about it if that's what you believe.
When you depressed because you have no friends and then suddenly you remember your family owns people
My ex asked me to explain what the process of me becoming a legal through marriage was like. I sent her this. I honestly shouldn't of tried to make jokes if a green card was on the line
we gotta get you outta here
What's up with the video description? is "the noticer of the 13%" calling Slavery in the US "fictional"?
I love the way she sees Kizzy as a pet, not a friend, and still says the N word although she acts all innocent
I would die before I'm anyones slave. I have been through hell my entire life, and if you think for a second that I will be a slave for anyone you are sadly mistaken.
Amen, my beautiful sister
I’m SO DAMN GLAD I didn’t live back then
There are people who want to take us back to these days
I laughed SO HARD at 1:18 😂 OMG It took me so much by surprise
I'm crying lol
... what? thats so weird
@@r4ts311 Comedy IS weird. Look at any given Aunty Donna sketch lol
Man that white girl looks funny as hell 😂😂😅😆
Sandy Duncan
Watch ur mouth
That's not even what white colour looks like, the Illiteracy they spread over the world.
😂😂
Sid from ice age
Anne is everything you have to be careful of when comes to "nice yt people". She used Kizzy's kindness, naivety and friendship to strip her away from her family be a slave to her. She never cared about Kizzy nor her safety. Kizzy even was gr@ped once got in that family. Still til this day you have to be careful of "nice Yt people" because they tend to be the most deceptive, backstabbers and truly evil ones.
I work with these people in Florida in 2024 they arent a for gone thing of the past, still alive and angry that we are free and able to look them square in the eye and tell them exactly what will and will not be acceptable behavior.
😂
In 1976, the year before "Roots" debuted, Sandy Duncan played Pinocchio in a made-for-TV musical special on CBS (Danny Kaye, Flip Wilson, and Liz Torres co-starred In it),. But for the life of me, I don't know what she had done prior to "Pinocchio" that had catapulted her to stardom. Broadway???
It aired January of 1977.
After commercials and a Tony Award nomination, Time Magazine named her one of the "most promising faces of tomorrow" in 1970. Afterwards, in addition to a Disney movie, she had her own sitcom in 1971-1972. It was originally called Funny Face. Then she had her eye tumor. When she came back, the show was revamped and called The Sandy Duncan Show.
@@angelasmith3967 Correct, "Roots" was '77, and "Pinocchio" was the year before that --- '76.
@@royrowland5763 Thank you, sir!
@@royrowland5763they had the right title all along.
I saw this as a high school with all the history classes. Everyone was hortified by this scene. Even the boys groaned st Missy Anne.
How many ships? Owned by who? Traded for what? Who gained from it? Who invested in bringing them? Who sold them? Who bought most of them? Who pushed it? How did they benefit from it? Who then pushed abolition? How did they benefit from it? Who then pushed the Civil War? How did they benefit from it? Who then prevented sending them back to their homelands? Why did they do that? Who sabotaged a nation created for them to have of their own? What was that nation called? The problem is, everyone's got a pat attitude and a pat answer, but they never ask the right questions.
little hats.
2:55-Worst episode of the Brady Bunch ever!
I shouldn't laugh, but....
The way they talk about slavery as if it's no big deal is insane to me. I get that at the time this was set it truly was no big deal, but watching this nowadays it feels like it's set on a different planet.
It's easy for the white woman to talk about it as nothing, but she'd be the first to complain if it happened to her. Lucky for her the government and the church though it was God's decision.
Why? Slavery takes place now in most parts of the world. Even in the United States and nations in Europe, there are women used as sex slaves that have been abducted.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Hereditary slavery, where the children of the people you own are also your property and can be sold without your permission, does not exist in Europe or the US. And even less does that slavery exist in which all the slaves are of one etnic origin and all the owners of another. Get real. Stop making excuses. What developed in the Americas was a total disasater for future relationships between the "races".
That doesn't make it ok.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important I think the point is it's not the mainsteam view. Aside from being illegal, there's a reason human trafficking these days has to be kept secret. Because most people are disgusted by it.
Robert Reed hated playing his part
Yet he did it. He got paid. He read the script beforehand.
He pretty much hated all his parts. Thought he was too gifted a thespian to be Mr. Brady. But you know- $
So why didn't he just do something else?
He hated playing Mike Brady as well.
This is the most evil, inhumane thing I've ever seen in a movie or TV show. It coldly reflects the brutal reality of the time, and the fact that there's no real malice makes it even more disturbing.
I remember toward the end of the show when kizzy was an old lady and she ran into the White woman who was also of course old.. she had no memory of Kizi and kizzy spit in her water unbeknownst to her. Cool scene
That sounds like something that someone who looks like Kizzy would do. Hold a grudge for decades, and then act vengefully towards someone who seems to have the mental capacity of a child.
@@cleigh3796 I was happy she spit in the water
@@cleigh3796ur always the victim huh
@@cleigh3796Try harder
@@kevincorcoran6493 Then you've an angry and vengeful individual, or you haven't watched this clip. I will again emphasize that the white woman is clearly portrayed as dimwitted and childlike in mentality.
It was disturbing then, and it's still disturbing now. Neither one of them could've imagined what was to come in 2024.
What happened in 2024?
@@davidjames579 Just the highly probable election of a black woman president.
@@davidjames579he gasped when found out trump started working on McDonald's and in his haste to repost it he dropped his pizza on the floor, in front of his high school crush who saw him struggling to kneel down in order to pick it back up. But that wasn't the worse of it. He was hungry and very, so very FAT which as you can imagine meant his hunger was insatiable and in that moment of utter self loathing he decided to eat the pizza. The very same he dropped on the floor, again and in front of his crush nonetheless.
It was a sad sad year.
lowkey "noticer of the 13%" is the last place I'd expect to see roots clips
Most normal conversation in American South: