{"id":5079,"date":"2013-11-17T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2013-11-24T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:30:14","slug":"roots-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/17\/roots-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOTS Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/11\/11\/history-channel-plans-to-remake-historically-problematic-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Page Six<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>History Channel plans to remake historically problematic\u00a0\u2018Roots\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/eric-fettmann\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Fettmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"History Channel plans to remake historically problematic\u00a0\u2018Roots\u2019\" src=\"http:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/burton.jpg?w=720&amp;h=480&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Levar Burton starred in &#8220;Roots&#8221; in 1977.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of successful slavery-themed movies like \u201c12 Years a Slave,\u201d \u201cThe Butler\u201d and \u201cLincoln,\u201d the History Channel just announced plans to remake \u201cRoots,\u201d the landmark 1977 mini-series that drew record ratings. How will they handle the hoax problem?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoots\u201d was based on the late Alex Haley\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway best-seller, which was billed as a factual account (albeit with some fictional embellishments) of his family\u2019s history from Africa through slavery in the South to present times. All this was said to be based on generations of oral history corroborated by painstakingly researched outside documents.<\/p>\n<p>But as I wrote in these pages back in 2002 (when ABC, which aired the original series, declined to broadcast a 25th anniversary tribute), historians and genealogists now widely agree that \u201cRoots\u201d has been discredited as a historical hoax.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade later, most people remain totally unaware of the troubling issues behind \u201cRoots\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/11\/11\/history-channel-plans-to-remake-historically-problematic-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Page Six<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Page Six History Channel plans to remake historically problematic\u00a0\u2018Roots\u2019 By\u00a0Eric Fettmann Levar Burton starred in &#8220;Roots&#8221; in 1977. In the wake of successful slavery-themed movies like \u201c12 Years a Slave,\u201d \u201cThe Butler\u201d and \u201cLincoln,\u201d the History Channel just announced plans to remake \u201cRoots,\u201d the landmark 1977 mini-series that drew record ratings. How will they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}