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Going to finish up the series Roots.

My verdict.. the first episode was good, the second was decent.. and it slowly descended in quality from there. Didn't take slavery serious enough, although from reading the backstory.. the network executives meddled with the program enough because they didn't want to provoke white guilt.

I am against white guilt, and feeling bad for what one ancestors did, but I don't think you need to sanitize history at the same time.

Going to watch the Boondocks tonight. A more overall intelligent show.
 
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because they didn't want to provoke white guilt.
There was no universal white to be shamed back then in the 70's, just redneck bigoted white folks making up only a portion of the white population, a group that could not at the time be shamed by self righteous do gooders.
 
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Hee Haw. I'm binging on Hee Haw. 100% nothing but dumb white hick caricatures. I LOVE IT! But were I to find out that the show was produced, written and cast by black people, I'd be out rioting in the streets. All by myself if necessary.
 
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Hee Haw. I'm binging on Hee Haw. 100% nothing but dumb white hick caricatures. I LOVE IT! But were I to find out that the show was produced, written and cast by black people, I'd be out rioting in the streets. All by myself if necessary.

Heehaw? Is that like some 1950s children programming? How old are you? Lol. Sounds like something my father might have watched as a kid.
 
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Heehaw? Is that like some 1950s children programming? How old are you? Lol. Sounds like something my father might have watched as a kid.
I didn't expect the likes of you to know anything of high culture.

 
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I didn't expect the likes of you to know anything of high culture.

I regularly pick out and eat the finest gas station food. I'm well versed in high culture, lol.
 
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I regularly pick out and eat the finest gas station food. I'm well versed in high culture, lol.
As a teenager I once lived off of nothing but gas station food for about two weeks. Long story. AFAIK there were no long-term effects.
 
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Sadly at the time of airing many people in the US thought this was quite normal and a nice relaxing hour away from their usual pastime of hunting down longhairs..
I agree it was sad. In the best interest of the nation, no one should have thought they had the luxury of taking a whole hour of from hunting down longhairs.
 
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As a teenager I once lived off of nothing but gas station food for about two weeks. Long story. AFAIK there were no long-term effects.

I lived like a month or two on ramen.. sadly.. I did feel some negative health effects. Lol.
 
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