It seems that Kinte's constant insistance to keep his african words, and names and ways has finally paid off ages later, as in the 20th and 21st centuries he's finally become historically recognized.
He came from kunta kintes brother that is a pretty close bloodline to kunta and also it shows that kunta kinte really existed. Alex Halley has taken alot of shit on the grounds of suposed plagiarism from a book called the African. It is nice to see alex halley backed up in this way.
Alex Haley didn't invent Kunta Kinte and the base story of Kunta Kinte. But, he didn't have enough information to write a whole novel, so he did plagiarize some of another man's novel for "filler". But, make no mistake, Kunta was real, Juffure is real, Omoro and Binta Kinte were real people and et cetera. He did get kidnapped while out looking for a tree to make a drum and the information that he told his daughter, Kizzy, to remember was true and so was everything that happened to Kizzy and her descendants all the way up to Alex. But, for a book, he had to come up with extra details and he, wrongfully, lifted them from another man's novel. That man sued him and Alex had to settle the lawsuit and admit he plagiarized. But, don't get it twisted, not all of what Alex wrote was plagiarized or made up. And, he did have enough clues to lead him, eventually, to Juffure.
It is not a close bloodline. Firstly, he is not a direct descendant of kunte. Secondly, even kunte kinte's direct descendants alive today are not closely related to him and share very little, if not any DNA with him. Many of your 6th and 7th great grandparents share no DNA with you at all, and the ones that do share a tiny amount (when I say tiny, I don't mean 4% ,I mean in the 0.5% range).
I don't know why some people after drinking a lot of alcohol continue arguing there was no kunta kinte . Of course "Roots " was a mixture of fiction and facts , but kunta kinte was real .He was born in 1750 in Jufureh village in Gambia .He was captured in 1767 , aged 17 .He died in Spotsylvania County , Virginia .
@@muhammedjanko1233 unless you can produce historical record to prove Kinte existed, then you cannot claim he existed. Remember Haley claimed Kinte was renamed Toby Waller after he was enslaved in America, he stated this was fact. This was easily debunked, and Haley eventually stopped claiming Kinte was a real person.
My African grandfather was from Free Town Sierra Leone he came to England in 1900 then went to America and came back to England where he married my grandmother a white woman in 1920 you can imagine the racism
FACTS THAT ALEX HALEY GOT WRONG IN THE BOOK/TV SHOW ROOTS (it wasn't his fault, the facts in the oral story telling down through the generations by the Haley family in the U.S., obviously became mangled/mixed up/ ) 1. In the story and tv show Roots, Kinte is named Toby by the plantation owners in Spotsylvania County.-in reality, it's been shown through historical researches into Haley's family, that Kinte was actually named Hoppin George, because of some foot injury ( a reference, perhaps, to his having been badly injured during an escape attempt as told in the oral story telling of the Haley family?????). There was another slave named Toby owned by the same family, but he couldn't have been Kinte as he was already in the U.S. when the ship carrying Kinte landed and he died years before Kizzy was born. The Haley family apparently got the two men confused during the oral, generation story telling. 2. In the story and tv show Roots, Kinte is owned by two men (two brothers) named Reynolds.-in reality it's been shown through in depth research into the Haley family, that Kinte was in fact owned by the FATHER of the two brothers! Also their name was Waller. 3. In the story and novel Roots, Kinte's daughter Kizzy is sold to the Moore plantation after having been betrayed by her girlhood friend. -in reality Kizzy could not have been a girl hood friend of the said girl, as the girl as already a grown woman at the time of Kizzy's birth! It's been suggested though that the Kizzy sold off to another plantation may in actuality have been Kinte's granddaughter, which would make more sense. Also the name was Lea not Moore. (interestingly enough, research has shown that the Waller/Lea families had three slaves named Kizzy connected to them (perhaps Kinte named his daughter Kizzy who then had a daughter she named Kizzy who in turn had a daughter named Kizzy? the name passed down? It also makes sense why Kizzy would name her son George as that was her grandfather's U.S. name-the name George was a common name in the Haley family). 4. In the novel/tv show Roots Chicken George goes to England after his owner has money problems in 1850-in reality Tom Lea was dead by 1844!-also research has shown that the Waller and Lea families were related. 5. In the tv show Roots, Kinte's first owner is shown to be the ancestor of Ben Cartwright! 6. In the novel/tv show Roots, Kinte meets Bell-his wife-to-be when she's owned by Dr. Reynolds (Waller)-in reality research has shown that the cook Bell was actually owned by the father of Dr. Waller. Ok there you go! Opinions please!!!
Very interesting! I knew some of this, but not all of the details. I often wonder how much Haley could have found had he had the same access we do today. Genealogy is much easier today with so many more records so easily accessible. I often find errors in the research my uncle and cousins did in the 1970s. Thanks for posting!
A lot of commenters are pointing out that Kunta Kinte cannot be the direct ancestor of anyone in Africa, but this is an error in terminology. There are direct ancestors and collateral ancestors. The sibling of your direct ancestor is your collateral ancestor. While Kunta left behind no direct descendants Africa, the descendants of Kunta's siblings are Kunta's collateral descendants. Cheers. ~The Genealogy Lunatic
thats is so amazing amazing i want to much to do what alex haley did find and do my family tree on my mother and my fathers side of family of my family i would love to do this and alex haleys history is in a way all of are history as black peoples amen amen.
I have used ancestry.com to trace my family back to England. The first I can trace them in Amercia is about 1639 and I have discovered 8 lines to American Revolution participants, One, whom I have been able to prove to the satisfaction of the Sons of the American Revolution. I also have two ancestors on both sides of the Civil war....both on my mother's side. It is a lot of work, reading, research, cross checking data, etc, but it is very rewarding.
Haley received the story through verbal tradition. He looked up county records THAT MATCHED the names of ancestors whom his Aunt Liz had mentioned in the family stories. The consistency made sense. The lawsuit of plagiarism seemed fishy.
Tom Haley made a couple mistakes in his story. One was kunta slave name wasn’t actually tobi but hoping George because he hoped around when his foot got cut off.
@@torieowens8277 , Anne Frank was a very young, innocent, and beautiful girl who had no reason to "make up" such an adventure. Under such bad social conditions, it was no time for a youth to write a novel!
Well Haley did plagiarize some like the story of the Africa. But for the most part it’s true especially the second half. Chicken George and mama Izzy were undoubtedly real people.
Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction.
Yeah, this interview proves that Kunta was real. That there really was a man from Juffure that was stolen from his family and brought to America. Yeah, Alex Haley may have had to add what he was thinking or feeling to the story as some things may have been lost to time or what Kunta and the family went through was what millions of slaves went through. It is really not that different if we take a Bible story and try to fill in what the Bible does not and I have read some good Biblical stories that was full of what might have happened. This still just proves that Kunta was real and he had family in Africa besides here as this Lamin was related to Kunta's brother, Lamin.
Vraiment! Et ces racines sont plus honorables que les œuvres de fiction des peuples arabes et israéliens que vous avez évoquées et qui se disputent rarement! Kunta est!
In the 1970s tv show Roots, the slaves have no knowledge of their african heritage but in historical reality that wasn't true. Slaves in the U.S often practiced tribal wedding customs and witch doctor rituals, and other customs.
There would be no point. They most likely would not share any DNA. If kunte kinte was brought back to life and underwent a DNA test, Alex Haley (a direct descendant) himself would likely not share any DNA with Kunte kinte. On average we share a tiny amount of DNA with 4th great grandparents. However, once we get back to 5th great grandparents, we only share DNA with less than half of them. DNA is not inherited equally from your ancestors. It is completely random. Meaning the majority of our ancestors share absolutely no biological connection to us
I was black in my eyes. Light complexion hair not so much African American.Hair confused. Did an ancestry dna and found out I’m 70% Portuguese and the rest African , Spaniard Jewish Sephardi . Jewish grandfather (another story) always check black 🤷🏽♀️that’s how I was raised. Still black ❤
I'm from Manchester and there are lots of Gambian descendants of Kinte here... They all love Hollands pies, barm cakes, chips and gravy and call their children Jaden, Kaden or Jayzee. It's nice that they remember their African roots when they name their children and ask for salt and vinegar on their chips 👍
Roots is "faction",a combination of facts & fiction. Alex Haley took real people, his ancestors & historicals facts and added fiction, in other words, he told a story. True, there was evidence supporting that he plagiarized Harold Courlander's "The African," but really does it change the impact it had on us a people?
His lineage was real the stories and events weren't. How could he had known the events of thir lives. However the stories were how Slaves were treated and the Laws at that time. However I've read some Slave narratives from freed slaves and his enactment was more humane than the actual stories. Slavery was more brutal than what's depicted.
Um. This is complete nonsense. Alex Hanes made tbe story up, it was NOT about his ancestors because it was fiction. He said so after being called out in tbe 80s.
My grandfather was born in Free Town Sierra Leone in about 1884, he went to America and settled in England. He married a white woman my grandmother in 1920 you can imagine what peoples reactions were so proud of them 💕
Well that’s interesting because there is absolutely no evidence, apart form Alex Haleys word, that Kunta Kinte was a real person. The book Roots is filled with so much historical misinformation it’s not surprising.
Well it's interesting because you're commenting on a video where a descendant of a nonexistent man is speaking. And quoting that disgusting, no good Phillip Nobile doesn't work.
@@madelinemardigan3386 Even on the 'Kunta Kinte Alex Haley foundation' website they still claim Kunta Kinte was Haley's real ancestor. But here's the facts - when Roots was first published, Haley claimed that Roots as an accurate historical account of his ancestry based on years of genealogical search, and that he had "been able to conventionally corroborate with documents". Haley insisted that Kunta Kinte was his true ancestor, he tried to further prove this by claiming Kinte's name was changed to Toby Waller. However genealogists have proven this is false, because this slave 'Toby' arrived in America and was owned five years prior to when Kinte was supposed to have landed in America. Many in the black community including Thomas Sowell, Stanley Crouch and HL Gates have called Haley out of this obvious and deliberate spreading of misinformation. As Crouch correctly stated, Haley was a ruthless hustler and his book was a hoax. He told everyone Kinte was real to sell more books.
He was 17 years old when he was captured .Lamin Jatta is a descendant of kunta kinte's brother , Lamin.Kunta kinte was captured when he went to fetch the wood to make a drum for his brother Lamin.
There are direct ancestors and collateral ancestors. The sibling of your direct ancestors is your collateral ancestor. While Kunta had no direct descendants Africa, the descendants of Kunta's siblings left behind are Kunta's collateral descendants.
Looking through the comments, it seems a lot of people are unaware of the term, so I'll post a general comment. Who knew my obsession with genealogy could be beneficial to many? ;). Cheers.
Lamin Jaafa is not a direct descendent of Kunta Kinte but of Omoro Kinte and his daughter. Also, Kunta was not captured and sold. He was just sold. Juffere village actively participated in the slave trade.
Don't distort history .Kunta kinte was captured when he went to fetch wood to make a drum for his brother Lamin.Lamin Jatta is a descendant of kunta kinte's brother , Lamin.
Okay, a lot of the story itself was fictionalized as like the Christian Bible there were holes in the story and all I can figure is that Alex Haley had to use his imagination on certain events as you can never know what really happened. But the names of his family were true. There was Kunta Kinte and his daughter. I have seen pictures of Chicken George. Granted, Chicken George didn't really look like Ben Vereen. That was where they messed up on their homework. If you have a White father and a Black mother, who are going to look more White than Black.
Not necessarily will he look more White, but he would've had lighter skin. The stories and some of the events about his life as a slave were enactments about how slaves lived during this time. If anything it was a softer version 12 years a slave or the slave stories in the Library of Congress tells more of the brutality directly from former free slaves.
ok so what's your point?....certain parts of roots was made up but that doesn't take away from the story is real right along with others....go away bitch
I beg to differ. There were millions of Kunta Kinte. Alex Haley documented what happened to millions of Africans who were sold into slavery and the atrocities they suffered and are still suffering to this day. So you can holler con job all you want, it doesn't change that fact.
👏🏾👏🏾 I hope Kunta Kente is Resting In Peace along with all our other ancestors. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
me too
Well if he is, he has to wake up to seek revenge
@Rafael Pinefa are you having a seizure??
I am one of his descendents
Reincarnation is not proved but you never know it might be true, he's probably since been reborn a few times via his own desendents.
I'm Gambian ,and kunta kinte is real
kunta kinte was still a real person even if the story wasnt accurate
Welsh Guy Kunta Kinte is real watch the movie read the book I research before comment
Yes,Kunta Kinte was a real person.
Welsh Guy the only FUCKEN IDIOT is your self.
Michael Dunetz
It seems that Kinte's constant insistance to keep his african words, and names and ways has finally paid off ages later, as in the 20th and 21st centuries he's finally become historically recognized.
Omg. Do you not know anything? He was a fictional character
Historically recognized as a fictional character. As black historian HL Gates said, Kunta Kinte was the work of Haley's imagination
He came from kunta kintes brother that is a pretty close bloodline to kunta and also it shows that kunta kinte really existed. Alex Halley has taken alot of shit on the grounds of suposed plagiarism from a book called the African. It is nice to see alex halley backed up in this way.
Well some of it was.
Alex Haley didn't invent Kunta Kinte and the base story of Kunta Kinte. But, he didn't have enough information to write a whole novel, so he did plagiarize some of another man's novel for "filler". But, make no mistake, Kunta was real, Juffure is real, Omoro and Binta Kinte were real people and et cetera. He did get kidnapped while out looking for a tree to make a drum and the information that he told his daughter, Kizzy, to remember was true and so was everything that happened to Kizzy and her descendants all the way up to Alex.
But, for a book, he had to come up with extra details and he, wrongfully, lifted them from another man's novel. That man sued him and Alex had to settle the lawsuit and admit he plagiarized. But, don't get it twisted, not all of what Alex wrote was plagiarized or made up. And, he did have enough clues to lead him, eventually, to Juffure.
Your spelling and grammar are both on a level with Kunta's.... 😐 such a shame when you have a point to make but let yourself down like that 🤐
It is not a close bloodline. Firstly, he is not a direct descendant of kunte. Secondly, even kunte kinte's direct descendants alive today are not closely related to him and share very little, if not any DNA with him. Many of your 6th and 7th great grandparents share no DNA with you at all, and the ones that do share a tiny amount (when I say tiny, I don't mean 4% ,I mean in the 0.5% range).
@@michaelmichael8314 keep believing them lying ass DNA test from the oppressors
this amazing i wish i could go back to my African roots ....we as black people. ..we are a lost tribe
Keith Williams no natives are
Keith Williams plus native Americans had it worse and are the original slaves
All black Americans should trace their African roots. The American government should fund this, America owes this to them.
Feel sorry for african Americans
You're welcome here anytime
MAN This is incredible Alex Haley will be proud of his younger cousin
Yeah , how are you doing
Um. Alex Haley completely made the book roots up out of his mind and he admitted it
God bless you Brother Laman..My forefathers were Bantu, they moved and settled in Tanzania
I don't know why some people after drinking a lot of alcohol continue arguing there was no kunta kinte . Of course "Roots " was a mixture of fiction and facts , but kunta kinte was real .He was born in 1750 in Jufureh village in Gambia .He was captured in 1767 , aged 17 .He died in Spotsylvania County , Virginia .
No. Alex Haley admitted he made it all up
@@madelinemardigan3386
No it wasn't all made up.
Legal battles were problematic for Alex Haley. But *NO* Roots is not entirely Hollywood
@@madelinemardigan3386how is that possible if the family in gambia has passed it down through generations
@@muhammedjanko1233 unless you can produce historical record to prove Kinte existed, then you cannot claim he existed. Remember Haley claimed Kinte was renamed Toby Waller after he was enslaved in America, he stated this was fact. This was easily debunked, and Haley eventually stopped claiming Kinte was a real person.
I wonder if he’s met any of his American relatives that descended from Kunta Kinte. That would be interesting
No because he isn't a real person
@@madelinemardigan3386 who isn’t real?
@@madelinemardigan3386he is you donut
My African grandfather was from Free Town Sierra Leone he came to England in 1900 then went to America and came back to England where he married my grandmother a white woman in 1920 you can imagine the racism
Racism yeah...America in the 20s illegal and your Grandfather would have been Lynched.
FACTS THAT ALEX HALEY GOT WRONG IN THE BOOK/TV SHOW ROOTS (it wasn't his fault, the facts in the oral story telling down through the generations by the Haley family in the U.S., obviously became mangled/mixed up/ ) 1. In the story and tv show Roots, Kinte is named Toby by the plantation owners in Spotsylvania County.-in reality, it's been shown through historical researches into Haley's family, that Kinte was actually named Hoppin George, because of some foot injury ( a reference, perhaps, to his having been badly injured during an escape attempt as told in the oral story telling of the Haley family?????). There was another slave named Toby owned by the same family, but he couldn't have been Kinte as he was already in the U.S. when the ship carrying Kinte landed and he died years before Kizzy was born. The Haley family apparently got the two men confused during the oral, generation story telling. 2. In the story and tv show Roots, Kinte is owned by two men (two brothers) named Reynolds.-in reality it's been shown through in depth research into the Haley family, that Kinte was in fact owned by the FATHER of the two brothers! Also their name was Waller. 3. In the story and novel Roots, Kinte's daughter Kizzy is sold to the Moore plantation after having been betrayed by her girlhood friend. -in reality Kizzy could not have been a girl hood friend of the said girl, as the girl as already a grown woman at the time of Kizzy's birth! It's been suggested though that the Kizzy sold off to another plantation may in actuality have been Kinte's granddaughter, which would make more sense. Also the name was Lea not Moore. (interestingly enough, research has shown that the Waller/Lea families had three slaves named Kizzy connected to them (perhaps Kinte named his daughter Kizzy who then had a daughter she named Kizzy who in turn had a daughter named Kizzy? the name passed down? It also makes sense why Kizzy would name her son George as that was her grandfather's U.S. name-the name George was a common name in the Haley family). 4. In the novel/tv show Roots Chicken George goes to England after his owner has money problems in 1850-in reality Tom Lea was dead by 1844!-also research has shown that the Waller and Lea families were related. 5. In the tv show Roots, Kinte's first owner is shown to be the ancestor of Ben Cartwright! 6. In the novel/tv show Roots, Kinte meets Bell-his wife-to-be when she's owned by Dr. Reynolds (Waller)-in reality research has shown that the cook Bell was actually owned by the father of Dr. Waller. Ok there you go! Opinions please!!!
Boy you did your research, guess you never know. But the hopping George made sense, especially since Kizzy named her son George
Very interesting! I knew some of this, but not all of the details. I often wonder how much Haley could have found had he had the same access we do today. Genealogy is much easier today with so many more records so easily accessible. I often find errors in the research my uncle and cousins did in the 1970s. Thanks for posting!
Great nd interesting...Tysm for sharing
You helped make the story make sense.
I knew the Mills misrepresented some things.
Along with that no good Phillip Nobile
Ben Cartwright the British actor?
A lot of commenters are pointing out that Kunta Kinte cannot be the direct ancestor of anyone in Africa, but this is an error in terminology. There are direct ancestors and collateral ancestors. The sibling of your direct ancestor is your collateral ancestor. While Kunta left behind no direct descendants Africa, the descendants of Kunta's siblings are Kunta's collateral descendants. Cheers. ~The Genealogy Lunatic
Still blood don't matter that's were he fought his hardest to unite back with his family
He's a fictional character
Madeline, my point was to clear confusion about genealogical terms, that's all.
Still have the same blood
The point is there is ZERO historical record that proves Kinte ever existing.
Kunta kinte's younger brother was named lamin!!!Oh my God what a coincidence!!!
Where is the coincidence?
Lamin was the name of Kunta 's younger brother. His namesake explains the connection in this video.
I wish I could learn more about the ancient Malian empire and the mandinka people, I want more than just a blood connection to my ancestors
Amir Sukai can u please tell me why did kunta cut his leg?
Kairaba Musa Sukai Hi
Kunta was, we are real.. pride Kinteh's ❤️
I would love to visit Gambia!
are u related to kunte kinteh
thats is so amazing amazing i want to much to do what alex haley did find and do my family tree on my mother and my fathers side of family of my family i would love to do this and alex haleys history is in a way all of are history as black peoples amen amen.
I have used ancestry.com to trace my family back to England. The first I can trace them in Amercia is about 1639 and I have discovered 8 lines to American Revolution participants, One, whom I have been able to prove to the satisfaction of the Sons of the American Revolution. I also have two ancestors on both sides of the Civil war....both on my mother's side. It is a lot of work, reading, research, cross checking data, etc, but it is very rewarding.
You can. Just make something up
Bless him
Haley received the story through verbal tradition. He looked up county records THAT MATCHED the names of ancestors whom his Aunt Liz had mentioned in the family stories. The consistency made sense. The lawsuit of plagiarism seemed fishy.
Tom Haley made a couple mistakes in his story. One was kunta slave name wasn’t actually tobi but hoping George because he hoped around when his foot got cut off.
@@newjerseylion4804 , it is "hopping" and "hopped."
@@torieowens8277 , Anne Frank was a very young, innocent, and beautiful girl who had no reason to "make up" such an adventure. Under such bad social conditions, it was no time for a youth to write a novel!
Torie owens , Anne was credible. Imagine what could've happened had she survived that horrible experience.
Well Haley did plagiarize some like the story of the Africa. But for the most part it’s true especially the second half. Chicken George and mama Izzy were undoubtedly real people.
Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction.
c'est excellentes les vidéos. je voudrai que vous demander comment on peut télécharger les vidéos sur RUclips ? Merci d'avance.
Mathias Tchangtoul Amerigo appli
My ancestry goes back to castillia Leon Spain and we are related to Queen Isabella
So
I am a descendent of Alex haley...thank you for sharing
My ex husband and I watched every week. It was such a powerful message.
Interesting
All us Black Americans have a story! Most just dont know it!💪🏿☝🏿✊🏿👌🏿
Imagine the anxiety after going out to the jungle and getting captured after simply trying to make a drum for you brother😢
Es un descendiente de Jesús 💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍🌹😢
He's a descendant of Kunta Kinte's brother Lamin (he said it himself). he's related to Kunta Kinte, but he's not a descendant.
Michael Michaelson his story is good enough
Fake
You are Fake.
ok so.whats your point?....u tryna take away from the .message or what
Yeah, this interview proves that Kunta was real. That there really was a man from Juffure that was stolen from his family and brought to America. Yeah, Alex Haley may have had to add what he was thinking or feeling to the story as some things may have been lost to time or what Kunta and the family went through was what millions of slaves went through. It is really not that different if we take a Bible story and try to fill in what the Bible does not and I have read some good Biblical stories that was full of what might have happened. This still just proves that Kunta was real and he had family in Africa besides here as this Lamin was related to Kunta's brother, Lamin.
OMG
Proud gambian
Racines d'Alex Haley est pour moi aussi important que la Bible ou le Coran
Vraiment! Et ces racines sont plus honorables que les œuvres de fiction des peuples arabes et israéliens que vous avez évoquées et qui se disputent rarement! Kunta est!
wait what did he just said Male' the city where i live wow
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Mali the Country not Male
In the 1970s tv show Roots, the slaves have no knowledge of their african heritage but in historical reality that wasn't true. Slaves in the U.S often practiced tribal wedding customs and witch doctor rituals, and other customs.
Has anyone ever compared DNA with the Haley family?
Great idea
Harley is the writer of the movie not kunta kinte
There would be no point. They most likely would not share any DNA. If kunte kinte was brought back to life and underwent a DNA test, Alex Haley (a direct descendant) himself would likely not share any DNA with Kunte kinte. On average we share a tiny amount of DNA with 4th great grandparents. However, once we get back to 5th great grandparents, we only share DNA with less than half of them. DNA is not inherited equally from your ancestors. It is completely random. Meaning the majority of our ancestors share absolutely no biological connection to us
@@jemeastudios I'm not entirely convinced you understand.
@@michaelmichael8314 I disagree. If they can match Richard III's remains to his modern day descendants after 500 years this is certainly possible.
Wat is da name of the film
Yes now Iam 41 kunta kinte Adam
I was black in my eyes. Light complexion hair not so much African American.Hair confused. Did an ancestry dna and found out I’m 70% Portuguese and the rest African , Spaniard Jewish Sephardi . Jewish grandfather (another story) always check black 🤷🏽♀️that’s how I was raised. Still black ❤
Thats my dad
Lameen is the name of every first born son in Gambia lmao
WOW Can't help but wonder were are the A.A. descendants of the Great Kunta Kinte?
Yeah and you come from wakanda
@@madelinemardigan3386 and you're the spawn of Satan!✌️
My family believes that the Fiddler in Roots was my ancestor Arch Fiddler Johnson. How do I reach you?
The whole thing was a fraud. Kunte Kinte could not possibly have been the same person as Tobey. Alex Haley cooked up the books and the whole thing up.
Where's the link
Why worry about a hateful nut that obsesses over things that does not concern him
Oral tradition
I'm from Manchester and there are lots of Gambian descendants of Kinte here... They all love Hollands pies, barm cakes, chips and gravy and call their children Jaden, Kaden or Jayzee. It's nice that they remember their African roots when they name their children and ask for salt and vinegar on their chips 👍
No
How do they know they are descendants of Kinte where not a single historical record has been produced to prove Kinte ever existed?
kunta kinte i was told was based on fiction but I believe otherwise
Roots is "faction",a combination of facts & fiction. Alex Haley took real people, his ancestors & historicals facts and added fiction, in other words, he told a story. True, there was evidence supporting that he plagiarized Harold Courlander's "The African," but really does it change the impact it had on us a people?
His lineage was real the stories and events weren't. How could he had known the events of thir lives. However the stories were how Slaves were treated and the Laws at that time. However I've read some Slave narratives from freed slaves and his enactment was more humane than the actual stories. Slavery was more brutal than what's depicted.
Kunta kinte na jamais existe cest personne de serie
Um. This is complete nonsense. Alex Hanes made tbe story up, it was NOT about his ancestors because it was fiction. He said so after being called out in tbe 80s.
My grandfather was born in Free Town Sierra Leone in about 1884, he went to America and settled in England. He married a white woman my grandmother in 1920 you can imagine what peoples reactions were so proud of them 💕
Well that’s interesting because there is absolutely no evidence, apart form Alex Haleys word, that Kunta Kinte was a real person. The book Roots is filled with so much historical misinformation it’s not surprising.
Well it's interesting because you're commenting on a video where a descendant of a nonexistent man is speaking.
And quoting that disgusting, no good Phillip Nobile doesn't work.
He admitted that it was a fictional character
@@madelinemardigan3386 Even on the 'Kunta Kinte Alex Haley foundation' website they still claim Kunta Kinte was Haley's real ancestor. But here's the facts - when Roots was first published, Haley claimed that Roots as an accurate historical account of his ancestry based on years of genealogical search, and that he had "been able to conventionally corroborate with documents". Haley insisted that Kunta Kinte was his true ancestor, he tried to further prove this by claiming Kinte's name was changed to Toby Waller. However genealogists have proven this is false, because this slave 'Toby' arrived in America and was owned five years prior to when Kinte was supposed to have landed in America. Many in the black community including Thomas Sowell, Stanley Crouch and HL Gates have called Haley out of this obvious and deliberate spreading of misinformation. As Crouch correctly stated, Haley was a ruthless hustler and his book was a hoax. He told everyone Kinte was real to sell more books.
He was a messiah from birth
Omg
Kunta Kinte did not father children in Africa though .
He was 17 years old when he was captured .Lamin Jatta is a descendant of kunta kinte's brother , Lamin.Kunta kinte was captured when he went to fetch the wood to make a drum for his brother Lamin.
There are direct ancestors and collateral ancestors. The sibling of your direct ancestors is your collateral ancestor. While Kunta had no direct descendants Africa, the descendants of Kunta's siblings left behind are Kunta's collateral descendants.
@@VeracityLH Thank You for the information. You have taught me something today. Collateral ancestors.
Looking through the comments, it seems a lot of people are unaware of the term, so I'll post a general comment. Who knew my obsession with genealogy could be beneficial to many? ;). Cheers.
Lamin Jaafa is not a direct descendent of Kunta Kinte but of Omoro Kinte and his daughter.
Also, Kunta was not captured and sold. He was just sold. Juffere village actively participated in the slave trade.
Don't distort history .Kunta kinte was captured when he went to fetch wood to make a drum for his brother Lamin.Lamin Jatta is a descendant of kunta kinte's brother , Lamin.
He was captured whether by Europeans or Africans..the fact is he was captured and sold.
Junta kings is a fake story
You mean Toby.
Okay, a lot of the story itself was fictionalized as like the Christian Bible there were holes in the story and all I can figure is that Alex Haley had to use his imagination on certain events as you can never know what really happened. But the names of his family were true. There was Kunta Kinte and his daughter. I have seen pictures of Chicken George. Granted, Chicken George didn't really look like Ben Vereen. That was where they messed up on their homework. If you have a White father and a Black mother, who are going to look more White than Black.
Not necessarily will he look more White, but he would've had lighter skin. The stories and some of the events about his life as a slave were enactments about how slaves lived during this time. If anything it was a softer version 12 years a slave or the slave stories in the Library of Congress tells more of the brutality directly from former free slaves.
Kunta kinte na jamais existe cest un personnage de fiction tout est faux
sue the USA for stealing him
Sue the Africans for kidnapping him and the Muslims for enslaving them
He is real but that man NOT a direct descendent Kunta is burried on a plantation here in VA
U are lying 🤥🤥 if u don't know d story can u please 🙏 keep quiet he's a true descendants of kunta kinteh
@@ladytaal9293 ohhhh and he still NOT
@@baddgurrshine4481 yesss cause am from dsame compound with lamin jatta he's my elder brother
@@ladytaal9293 i Don't give ahhh fuck... Kay! Bye
@@baddgurrshine4481 if u don't give a fuck dat's ur demm buisness kk have a good day
hmmm a descendant from Africa? I call BS
lmao he not a descendant kunte kinte never existed alex haley made it up from a book called the african by a white man named harold courlander
LL Lewis they use the name Kunta to give him a name but he was called the African originally
Mrs White huh. Its still a lie fiction that spread to the mass as real
ok so what's your point?....certain parts of roots was made up but that doesn't take away from the story is real right along with others....go away bitch
He is a made up CHARACTER!!!!!! Haley had to pay a HUGE amount of money over this!!!
LL Lewis where is your proof it a made up story
There was no Kunta. Nice con job
shut up bitch
I have heard the same thing...And the book "ROOTS" was stolen in part from the book "THE AFRICAN".Not sure what to believe.....
White people
I beg to differ. There were millions of Kunta Kinte. Alex Haley documented what happened to millions of Africans who were sold into slavery and the atrocities they suffered and are still suffering to this day. So you can holler con job all you want, it doesn't change that fact.