Chicken George learns about freedom

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  • Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
  • "And that's the best part, George - being free. Can't nothing be better than that."
    Chicken George is a rooster fighter, a slave, and a descendant of the old African, Kunta Kinte. He earns a pretty living for a slave as a chicken fighter. And as a result, he leads a life of leisure and lavishness. He meets an old friend who he found out bought his own freedom. That served as a wake-up call for Chicken George that there is something greater than his life of comfort. And that something was the concept of freedom.
    I do not own any rights to the video or audio. This is purely for artistic critique.

Комментарии • 97

  • @RK831
    @RK831 2 года назад +57

    Kunta Kinte -> Kizzy -> Chicken George -> Tom -> Cynthia -> Bertha -> Alex Haley. Alex grew up hearing stories of Kunta Kinte from his grandmother, Cynthia. Chicken George is Cynthia's grandfather, and Kunta Kinte is Chicken George's grandfather.

    • @kishawright4456
      @kishawright4456 Год назад

      Who was chicken George father

    • @stumarston6812
      @stumarston6812 Год назад +3

      @@kishawright4456 Master Tom Moore

    • @mollyblanchard6080
      @mollyblanchard6080 Год назад +1

      Thank you for this breakdown. My family enslaved Chicken George in Alamance County, NC (a horrible family history I’ll have to live with). I’ve been working on piecing everything together.

    • @annieleebrown4073
      @annieleebrown4073 Год назад

      Who was queen ?

    • @neglakay4373
      @neglakay4373 Год назад +2

      ​@AnnieLee Brown Queen was Alex Haley's grandmother on his father's side.

  • @purplelove3666
    @purplelove3666 3 года назад +53

    The acting is everything

  • @onlyme219
    @onlyme219 2 года назад +25

    I was 11 at the time and watched roots with my mum and Chicken George always remained in my head to this day at 56, no one else just Chicken George, just saying

    • @bobbi67
      @bobbi67 Год назад +1

      Same here! I was 11 when I first saw Roots (living in San Francisco) & I am now 56 years old. 🖤🌻

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 Год назад +3

      @@bobbi67 Seems the show was worldwide I watched it in England, Best wishes from across the pond

    • @bobbi67
      @bobbi67 Год назад +1

      🙂

    • @Dandandan3
      @Dandandan3 10 месяцев назад +1

      Kunta too. I’m 53. I saw roots when I was 8 with my pops. Afterwards all the kids in the neighborhood would reinact the scene where Kunta is whipped trying to force him to take “Toby” and Kunta resisted like a dozen lashes.

    • @onlyme219
      @onlyme219 10 месяцев назад

      @@Dandandan3 👍

  • @peteradaniel
    @peteradaniel 2 месяца назад +2

    It’s like little house on the prairie meets 12 years a slave

  • @michaelbrewer8780
    @michaelbrewer8780 Год назад +9

    We don't need any more GANGSTER and THUGS we need more CHICKEN GEORGE'S

  • @katyarnold-ji8sv
    @katyarnold-ji8sv 2 месяца назад +2

    Very powerful!!! scene. I love it.

  • @betgamble8906
    @betgamble8906 2 года назад +9

    Always loved chicken George as a kid:) takes me back.

  • @noskinrecords84
    @noskinrecords84 3 года назад +17

    do i look like chicken george to youuuu??!

  • @MsSharifa19
    @MsSharifa19 Год назад +9

    Ben Vereen is too fine! His smile makes me go nuts!

    • @saramatthews7159
      @saramatthews7159 Год назад

      lol I thought I was the only one...always thought he was a handsome man

    • @RanaOwens-wt1it
      @RanaOwens-wt1it 5 месяцев назад

      A little unrealistic in the looks, but I do love Ben Vereen as Chicken George. I have seen a picture of the real Chicken George. He looked like he had a White father and a Black mother. Ben Vereen does not.

  • @franciscojavierlozanoponce5677
    @franciscojavierlozanoponce5677 5 лет назад +44

    I just came down here just for understanding the referrence of one of the scenes of tropic thunder....

    • @DennisBTV
      @DennisBTV 5 лет назад +1

      Francisco Javier Lozano Ponce Which scene from Tropic Thunder? My favorite scene is when Jack Black is trying to get high and thinks he’s alone and as he’s pouring the stuff into his hand someone comes up behind him and asks “Hey what’s that?” And Jack Black is like “FUCK!-Nouthin man it’s just jellybeans.” Lmao the way he’s like “FUCK!!!”

    • @franciscojavierlozanoponce5677
      @franciscojavierlozanoponce5677 5 лет назад +6

      @@DennisBTV When alpa tells Srgt. Osiris to cut off the chicken george shit....

  • @Kady_youtubechannel
    @Kady_youtubechannel Год назад +1

    2k3 still my favorite historic movie❤❤❤❤❤❤ cry so many times

  • @roadtrippingdjs6808
    @roadtrippingdjs6808 4 года назад +64

    We still don't get it......new and latest shoes and car...or investing in securing your future?

    • @Huskerbrotha
      @Huskerbrotha 4 года назад +3

      I don't think we will ever get it!

    • @Illalcap
      @Illalcap 4 года назад +4

      Deuteronomy 30

    • @levithedrip8538
      @levithedrip8538 3 года назад +1

      @@Illalcap and 28 too brother

    • @lindawilliams8715
      @lindawilliams8715 3 года назад +3

      TI, Jay Z and other rappers are encouraging young people to buy property instead of cars, jewelry and having expensive parties; so there is a new day on the horizon.

    • @thescatman5029
      @thescatman5029 2 года назад +2

      As a kid, i didn't understand George's "fine clothes" as a wasted priority. But, I get it, now!

  • @vensonj
    @vensonj 3 года назад +29

    “I’m a nigga what owns a nigga” he said that with so much confidence

    • @darrylnelson05
      @darrylnelson05 Год назад +1

      But when Masa said let's be on our way, he said yes sir.

    • @dameonwebb1316
      @dameonwebb1316 Год назад +2

      @@darrylnelson05he actually didn’t say anything

  • @Antzy0001
    @Antzy0001 5 лет назад +36

    We are all Chicken George!

    • @katizz988
      @katizz988 2 года назад +4

      No... we're not

  • @LibertyWatcherPublications
    @LibertyWatcherPublications  3 года назад +45

    Take a moment to note that Marcellus worked for 20 years to be able to say "I own myself". Today everybody, no matter what race, is born owning themselves. Yet what have we done with our freedom?

    • @VredesStall
      @VredesStall 2 года назад +7

      There is no such thing as complete or total freedom.
      We all have to answer to someone at some point.

    • @Mimi2Y2BYAZPHIL
      @Mimi2Y2BYAZPHIL 2 года назад

      @@VredesStall Tell THAT to the "Orange Terror"
      aka t rump!🙄

    • @mikesully110
      @mikesully110 2 года назад +6

      @@VredesStall I am free to do exactly what my boss says, or I am free to walk the streets, hungry cold and broke. That is my freedom.

    • @TennisArena365
      @TennisArena365 Год назад +1

      @@mikesully110”saved every penny” Become a business owner or be a slave forever

    • @UnfilteredAmerica
      @UnfilteredAmerica 9 месяцев назад

      @@mikesully110lol boohoo poor you, you have to work for wages 😢😢😂😂 come on man. You sound ridiculous. If you don’t want a boss then start your own company, you have the freedom to do that.

  • @darramlogan7126
    @darramlogan7126 4 года назад +6

    When I listen to the Chicken Dance song, it reminds me of him.

  • @Tsepete
    @Tsepete 2 месяца назад

    Can't nothing be better than being free.

  • @kimolowo4364
    @kimolowo4364 3 года назад +9

    Do I look like Chicken George to you!!!???

    • @Camel-from-Arabia
      @Camel-from-Arabia Год назад +1

      Better get back on some cotton field with 500$ chips men!

  • @MrDiamond10
    @MrDiamond10 Год назад +1

    AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD WE ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!!!!!

  • @larryrobinson6914
    @larryrobinson6914 2 года назад +3

    Subway will give you a card that offers you a free hero!

  • @laminage
    @laminage 2 года назад +5

    Not to compare, but every Friday like Clockwork Christopher Dollananger would come home from a Businesstrip and bring home Presents for his Four Children. He did it to make up for the guilt in terms of being away from home so much. Very bad in terms of Money Management.

  • @SeeSetJaeMiirTv
    @SeeSetJaeMiirTv 4 года назад +12

    Rush hour 2

  • @WingoTribe704
    @WingoTribe704 9 месяцев назад

    This was my nickname when I worked at Bojangles 🥴🤣

  • @kills26
    @kills26 Год назад +2

    If I own a car and I do because I'm fancy 😛
    But I digress if I own a car and I keep money in the car and I do because I'm fancy 😛
    But for real though, Isn't there a risk of the owner, just being like well I own you so there for I already own this money, ta very much get back to work. 🤔
    It would be a bloody cruel thing to do and I wouldn't condone it as I'm frankly fancy 😛 But when one is already in the business of owning others I think their morals are worthy of question. Also I don't know what is wrong with me either, my brain seems broken tonight 😜

  • @avotellymorgan1427
    @avotellymorgan1427 2 года назад +2

    Need this full movie

  • @dallasisraelites4241
    @dallasisraelites4241 5 лет назад +7

    no the truth we teach it

  • @_John_Tyree_
    @_John_Tyree_ 3 года назад +3

    🎶Ooh, nigga, what you gonna say
    freedom comes your way one day.
    'Stead of being a nigga in Carolina, rather be a free man in hell.🎶 (Fiddler chuckles)

  • @married2dagame50
    @married2dagame50 6 месяцев назад

    Tte Notti got me here 😂😂

  • @karenricks5630
    @karenricks5630 2 года назад

    Hallelujah

  • @xman69100
    @xman69100 3 года назад +2

    Facts

  • @杉村敏子
    @杉村敏子 2 года назад +2

    Lou Smith!

  • @benkata
    @benkata 4 месяца назад

    anyone know who played Marcellus?

  • @fromthefather8349
    @fromthefather8349 2 года назад +4

    Be free but still have to work. Might as well stay a slave. Just joking. Slavery sucks.

  • @ErlSmith
    @ErlSmith Год назад

    Ahma spoeten men.

  • @user-ov5kj4uv7u
    @user-ov5kj4uv7u 2 месяца назад

    تمت المشاهده ٢٢يونيو ٢٠٢٤

  • @bobbiedeleon4845
    @bobbiedeleon4845 22 дня назад

    1:19 black community wanna look flashy but not a penny saved up for a future!

  • @giorgetti11
    @giorgetti11 3 года назад +2

    What’s the title of this movie?

  • @michaelbrewer8780
    @michaelbrewer8780 Год назад

    The Bible says that GOD made MAN in HIS image the 1st MAN was BLACK! ( So look up towards heaven and behold the only thing greater than yourself

    • @kills26
      @kills26 Год назад

      The bible is fiction that was written by a white man.