Roots "Kunta" My Name is Kunta Kinta
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2015
- What was the purpose of erasing every syllable, religious belief, culture practice and even the name from your captives??? Is there something in their inheritance that the kidnappers feared. No other enslaved people in the history of man, did the conqueror erase their captives entire past.
RIP Louis Gossett Jr. Stellar acting in Roots
This scean brought tears to my eyes. I remember an interview about this scean. Lou Gossett Jr. was actually crying for real in this one while saying his lines.
We will never forget this in Gambia 🇬🇲
As a little kid, I first saw Louis Gosset Jr. in the movie THE DEEP. I did not like him because the character he played was so mean. But I grew up with Louis Gosset Jr. & over the years I came to adore him. I got to see him in a Hollywood parade riding on the upper backseat of a convertable waving at the crowd. I yelled out his name & he looked in my direction & waved hello. He was pure genius in ROOTS & every bit as good in ENEMY MINE. News of his passing hit me like a baseball bat. Goodbye my friend. I'll never forget you. . .
There gonna be another day
RIP Louis Gossett Jr
Rest Peacefully Mr. Louis Gossett Jr. Thank you for this memorable performance. Farewell 🙏
St John 3:16! ❤
Please don't die without JESUS in your heart!
Better never to have been born.
Love how he held on to his name kunte kinti 😢
Lou Gossett said that part when he said, 'There gon' be another day' wasn't in the script. He added that himself
Certainly my favorite part of Roots
"What's Your Name " whatever you want it to be...BOSS!!! 🇺🇸 fast forward...Lil Nas X...Lil Scrappy...Diddy...
What you’re saying doesn’t make sense.
Bro wtf are you saying dumb ass
I disagree with the poster's statement that "No other enslaved people in the history of man, did the conqueror erase their captives entire past." This very thing happened over and over - the Mongols, the Romans, the Bolsheviks and the Nazis - and some of the modern ones just went ahead and "erased" the people themselves if they didn't fit into the conqueror's "brave new world." The Nazis, for instance, identified certain groups of people who had no place in the Third Reich, and were either executed outright, or worked to death.
In this example, the overseer was an actor - and this was a movie. But - Yes, things like that did happen - and worse - all over the world and down thru time. A common punishment in the Royal Navy was "whipping thru the fleet" where the offending sailor was bound to the mast of a small boat, which was sailed thru the fleet, and given so many strokes with the "cat o' nine tails" until they had passed every ship. Usually they were whipping a corpse by the time it was done as the backbones and rib cage were showing and the sailor had died of blood loss and shock.
Romans did this to Jews. Wouldn't even permit them their own thoughts.
Look at Tibet!
What does The Navy have to do with this lmao?
@@UnfilteredAmericaIf you learn to read, you would understand.
Except the Spanish Empire.
When they chopped off his foot he look down and said where my toe be.
From reading the book I recall that when Kunta Kinte attempted to escape, was hunted down and captured he was given a choice: he could be castrated, or have half of one foot cut off. He believed that to be truly a man, a man must have sons. So he chose to lose half a foot, in order to beget sons who would in time bear witness to the wrongs of slavery.
These are the skills ron desantis wants us to believe are beneficial as he rewrites history...
Trying WAY too hard, lib😂
But you are holding on to Slave Massa Biden I bet!!!
Shut up
Ron Desantis is a cumstain.
"Yer name is Toby!"
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Yep. And he never got it this bad when the warp engines didn't run! (Just kidding.)
But, deep inside, he never forgot his name was Toby.
Awsome movie and great actor and actress.
Especially Lou Gossett !
A new generation of people from Africa are here in America. They bring with them their religious beliefs, culture practica and their names. The children of this generation have their original names.
Saleemah Muhammad That scene with the flogging was absolutely sickening and totally barbaric the overseer was an extremely cruel and sadistic Bastard and it makes me ill to think people once behaved like that it's horrible
Right. They also bring intelligence and respect for themselves and others, and are educated and being educated here, as in higher education and I'm NOT talking about the ridiculous online schools who pass our Phd's to black women like candy. Not like the LBJ generations of American blacks. Four generations of largely ignorant and violent people.
Especially when you realise the overseeer was probably a former Indentured bond servant (ie a former criminal) who were the plantation Labour before slaves..he would have been brutalised by similar treatment.
And Saleem is your original name?
@@johnmclean1046 No. I legally changed my name close to 50 years ago. I have had this name longer than the name I was born with. I wanted to be called something better than what I was given. So I made sure to do it the LEGAL way. so that nobody can tell me that is not my name. All of my legal documents read Saleemah Muhammad.
Be you to remain real
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Proud to be an african ( ethiopia )
Poverty and disease! Real pride!
Good on you jungle bunny.
lol they will hate you from oceans away for it, keep your head up king no matter what the garbage of the world thinks
As brutal as this scene is, it is important: history cannot be denied. To be abducted from your people, stripped of your freedom and even your name, and treated worse than an animal (more like an inanimate object).
Yeah,but remember that before this,he was abducted by africans,stripped of his freedom by africans and sold into slavery by africans,just as africans had been doing for centuries and still do.remember that.also try to remember that all races and all creeds of people have been slaves and or slave traders at some point in history.slavery was not exclusive to blacks
When actual historians, and genealogists investigated Alex Haley's book(s): Roots they discovered he had no factual, historical, genealogical evidence or proof to back up his assertions that Kunta Kinte was his ancestor, and there was never any evidence or proof that such a person was brought to Maryland, or anywhere else in the American Colonies or that such a person ever existed at all. Once confronted Haley stated, "I wanted to give people a myth they could believe in". Roots is a lie.
Pure fiction and drama
@@ancupola1994 This is not some story. This is what African-Americans endured in slavery
This is what America does to us
Shame on the house "African" for doing this to other Africans.
The hat dude’s name is OHH SHITT MY HEAD’S CUT OFFF!!
Youveantbyob6ell his daughter that to her face?
What’s your name
FREE!!?
Such a great movie very touching and really shows what happened to slaves generation after generation so sad part of history but it must be tought
Only when disobedient like Runaway Toby. If he had been properly trained, Toby would not need lessons like this.
We need to bring it back ..
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Is there any one who recognized John Amos youngblood?
I recognized him, but couldn't think of his name. Thanks. 👍
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for the good of all,, they had to break the buck
GOD BLESS YOU🙏🙏 ALWAYS
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Irish slaves and white endentures where basically free at that time. To buy an expensive African slave and then to treat them that way. That's a bad business management
Toby is a good name
I'm black but it really is doe
nah toby goofy af
He sure caused a lot of problems for himself.
How can human beings be this barbaric?
So after all of that we learn he's a quitter. Sad.
He was forced to keep his slave name, there was no slave rebellion during that time, one thing is true though, he was Toby until he died, in Heaven he is Kunta Kinte
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Kunta...
He should have identified as been white!
Cruelty to animals.
Kenta was a homo sapient. Not an animal.
Cruelty to your Mother 😂
It’s not nice to speak about yourself that way.
@@UnfilteredAmericathey are evil by nature ... And by God they will pay.
Watch out. RUclips might be watching ....
I'd rather be Toby than cunta
Because you are not African and don't know we are connected to our ancestral names
No
ST JOHN 3:16! ❤️
I have a new name written down in GLORY!
HALLELUJAH! ❤️✝️❤️
Totally false representation of how plantations worked...pathetic.
Oh please! Do enlighten us!
Someone’s in denial. It was that bad
OK-- ignore all the slave narratives and first-hand testimonials of enslaved and former beneficiaries of slavery. Because you are a time traveler, and you were there on every plantation to witness how great the slave life was. Some of you trolls showing up in this thread are seriously ill-informed. You are under-educated. You were cheated from being told the truth because your own benevolent wealthy white elites felt you could not handle it. And they were right. Emotionally and cognitively, you're not strong enough to handle the truth. I bet you still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Your culture is a complex structure of lies and deceit and you need that to maintain your delusion of superiority.
Ok historian. How did Slave Plantations work?
And u know better because?? ?