When responding to a question In regards to the creation and existence of Roots, "I was just trying to give my people a myth to live by" ~Alex Haley If you want authentic and genuine understanding on slavery, racism, rise of crime, affirmative action, broken families etc... Thomas Sowell is your source.
Yes by the 1990's Haley began watering down his ancestry claims, as it was proven conclusively that Kunta Kinte was a pure work of fiction. Many in the black community were incensed about this, because they bought the 1976 edition because Haley had claimed it historical fact based on his own ancestry. This false claim certainly helped Haley sell a lot of books! Strangely the 'Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley foundation' website still claims Kinte was Haley's ancestor. If you go on one of their tours they will repeat a lot of the false historical claims Haley made.
I was a teenager when Roots was on TV. It was very eye opening and I’ve been forever moved because of Alex Haley’s book and miniseries. Slavery was taught in school but I just couldn’t understand that kind of evil actually happening. God bless Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and all the brave people that fought to free slaves.
Growing up in London Uk This was the only black history we got After watching the first episode on this TV everything change the next day of junior school. On behalf of my brothers and I We salute you Alex Haley THE GREAT R.I.P
@@jacksonheathen2092 Slavery was disgusting!!! Roots was a depiction of actual events that happened for hundreds of years. If you don’t believe it, your a special kind of fool.
@@TLSeitzno actually you’re the fool for believing in an the events he portrayed in the movie even when he admitted he made up. In his book he wrote that it was not written history and took some things from a white author and was later sued. He completely fabricated the entire slave trade read an actual history book you moron.
While it is true that Alex Haley blended fact with fiction and settled a $650K with Harold Corlander. We African Americans still owe him a debt of gratitude for this awakening that brought this atrocity to light, created discussions and debate. It pushed many of us to try and learn more abt our ancestry too . For this, i am grateful and i forgive him for his half-truths.
We will never agree on that. And hate has always been around. You and I will never agree that this one public official running for president today continues to create the division and hate amongst ethnicities.
@@mrmaxxx94 Whatever floats your boat. Roots was a good miniseries that caused people to reflect on the horrors of slavery. But I don't think it really "changed the world". Either way, it was fiction. Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots.
@@mrmaxxx94 You're one of those sad little trolls who posts (and immediately deletes) comments so that nobody else can see them. You're a real tribute to your cause. 😂😂
I’m from the hometown of Tina Turner but I live in Alex Haley’s hometown going on four years now. My fiancée is actually a relative of his. He even favors him.
Roots was plagiarized!!! And Alex was the one that plagiarized!!! When I found that out I was really hurt!!! I truly didn't know that he did this! Anyone else didn't know roots was fake?
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No, plagiarized a book written by a white man nah I'll go with Roots
@Happy Maybe, the details of the lives of the people may not have been completely historically accurate. However, people in the Roots are real. Besides, Roots is bigger than Alex Haley. It is a symbolic representation of the history of every African American's ancestor. Every African American is descendent of their own Kunta Kinte.
Except that he didn't write it. He was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots. In fact he ripped it off from a white author.
Got very emotional reading Roots, Alex Haley have impacted and inspired millions of people with his writting the Roots and did a wonderful job of bringing his ancestors to life through this book ❤️.
Alex Haley book was exposed as a plagiarism of white Jewish ✡ author's book 📖 The African practically word for word. He was sued by the author who he payed thousands of dollars for copyright appropriation.
Alex Haley was a fraud. He stole his material from a white author named Courlander and was successfully sued for plagiarism over it. I'm not suggesting Roots wasn't a great miniseries. Just that it's not Alex Haley's true family history. He made it up.
this hack ripped off another book called the African,his so called ansestor that he cited in roots is also fake,go look up Alex being being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for plagiarism
Actually, Alex Haley was a fraud. You have internet access. So check it out. He was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots. In fact the stole his material from a white author.
Nope they probably disliked this video because they know the facts about Alex Haley. Haley was sued for plagiarizing Roots, copying the storyline and passages word for word from The African and eventually settled in court paying out the author for stealing his work. When Roots was first published Haley claimed it was historical record and that Kunta Kinte was a real person, and his ancestor. When it was conclusively proven this was a lie, Haley began to change his story.
@@carlovandenbrink8779 Exactly. In fact he also plagiarized from other authors too. A complete fraud. But it amuses me that he was successfully sued by a white author for his works that served as the basis for Roots.
Haley plagiarised the storyline from The African, written by Courlander. And Roots was written by Murray Fisher, a white man who did a lot of ghost writing for Haley.
Haley claimed white man invaded African during the 1700s and captured the blacks, which is historically false. Most of the African slaves shipped to America were sold to the white man by African tribes.
@@dullknife5468 Mr. Haley defended his work. He never claimed every aspect of his book was real. The book Roots was based on his family's oral history. So some aspects was unverifiable, possibly wrong and dramatized. The fact remains those people existed. There videos on RUclips showing pictures of Alex Haley's extended family.
Alex Haley definitely defended his work. I'm not shocked he was sued at some point. A lot of successful people have to deal with opportunists, critics and grifters. Regardless, Mr. Haley was likely advised by lawyers to settle to avoid more innuendo, rumors and bad publicity. Besides, Mr. Haley never claimed every aspect of his book was true. He stated Roots was based on his family's oral history. Therefore some parts are unverifiable, possibly wrong and dramatized. There are videos here on RUclips that show pictures of his family and where they lived and worked. And we all know Chattel Slavery was horrible and real. Roots remains an iconic story of resilience.
@@viktorwolfe8333 Exactly. Roots is completely fake. At best, it was a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people who couldn't read or write and embellished by Hollywood to sell to a TV audience. But yes, Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism. So it wasn't even his family history.
No only did this hack compile a book thats full of inacuracies,he also stole the story from another book called "the african",he also cited things and tried to make it as if these things are in the historical record(which it clearly wasent and was proven wrong), he was then sued for plagiarism and was forced to pay a total in the region of a few hundred thousand dollars. The only thing this book did was spread hate and divsion.
The worst thing that was created is “ nicknames “ how the hell someone supposed to know their relative if you don’t even know their real names! Stupid!
Rest in paradise Alex Haley your Roots have made a profound impact on my life
Kevin Richmond - I read he plagerized his story and was sued for $150000. ?🤔
Ben Her
He wassued for $650,000
Ben Her Guess that helps with writers block.
hailey thanks coulander for using coulanders material voor making roots
Plagiarized or not, what he wrote was powerful 💥
When responding to a question In regards to the creation and existence of Roots, "I was just trying to give my people a myth to live by" ~Alex Haley
If you want authentic and genuine understanding on slavery, racism, rise of crime, affirmative action, broken families
etc... Thomas Sowell is your source.
Yes by the 1990's Haley began watering down his ancestry claims, as it was proven conclusively that Kunta Kinte was a pure work of fiction. Many in the black community were incensed about this, because they bought the 1976 edition because Haley had claimed it historical fact based on his own ancestry. This false claim certainly helped Haley sell a lot of books! Strangely the 'Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley foundation' website still claims Kinte was Haley's ancestor. If you go on one of their tours they will repeat a lot of the false historical claims Haley made.
Alex haley had gone before I was aware of roots. Great man , great work
A great work of fiction (or actually plagiarism).
Good job bud, you've replied to half the comment section.
Thanks for posting this.
I was a teenager when Roots was on TV. It was very eye opening and I’ve been forever moved because of Alex Haley’s book and miniseries.
Slavery was taught in school but I just couldn’t understand that kind of evil actually happening.
God bless Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and all the brave people that fought to free slaves.
@@TLSeitz a pity that most of the things In the book is a myth
Growing up in London Uk
This was the only black history we got
After watching the first episode on this TV
everything change the next day of junior school.
On behalf of my brothers and I We salute you
Alex Haley THE GREAT R.I.P
Except is was fake.
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Slavery was disgusting!!!
Roots was a depiction of actual events that happened for hundreds of years. If you don’t believe it, your a special kind of fool.
@@TLSeitzno actually you’re the fool for believing in an the events he portrayed in the movie even when he admitted he made up. In his book he wrote that it was not written history and took some things from a white author and was later sued. He completely fabricated the entire slave trade read an actual history book you moron.
excellent work!
While it is true that Alex Haley blended fact with fiction and settled a $650K with Harold Corlander.
We African Americans still owe him a debt of gratitude for this awakening that brought this atrocity to light, created discussions and debate.
It pushed many of us to try and learn more abt our ancestry too . For this, i am grateful and i forgive him for his half-truths.
It created division and hate,it did more harm than good and almost all of his book is fiction.
We will never agree on that. And hate has always been around. You and I will never agree that this one public official running for president today continues to create the division and hate amongst ethnicities.
Love the chomps at the beginning
AMAZING
Alex Hailey changed the world,rip respect
Not really.
@@jacksonheathen2092 speak for yourself, different for me
@@mrmaxxx94 Whatever floats your boat. Roots was a good miniseries that caused people to reflect on the horrors of slavery. But I don't think it really "changed the world". Either way, it was fiction. Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots.
@@jacksonheathen2092 racism, Jim Crow and the reality of being Black in Amerikkka ain't fictional Jack, so save all that,YO
@@mrmaxxx94 You're one of those sad little trolls who posts (and immediately deletes) comments so that nobody else can see them. You're a real tribute to your cause. 😂😂
He had a lot of empathy, writing fiction seems to require that.
I’m from the hometown of Tina Turner but I live in Alex Haley’s hometown going on four years now. My fiancée is actually a relative of his. He even favors him.
Roots was plagiarized!!! And Alex was the one that plagiarized!!! When I found that out I was really hurt!!! I truly didn't know that he did this! Anyone else didn't know roots was fake?
No, plagiarized a book written by a white man nah I'll go with Roots
@Happy Maybe, the details of the lives of the people may not have been completely historically accurate. However, people in the Roots are real. Besides, Roots is bigger than Alex Haley. It is a symbolic representation of the history of every African American's ancestor. Every African American is descendent of their own Kunta Kinte.
Happy Me it was only a few paragraphs. most of it is true based on his ancestors
@Archie Fitzpatrick dude, we are Africans, who were born in the Americas. We are not no Hebrews or Israelites. Stop with all of that nonsense.
@Archie Fitzpatrick the Bible is not a history book. I base history on facts and reality, not on some biblical verses interpretations.
What is a good book to read about this time period?
Sooo incredible what he accomplished...RIP Alex Haley and God bless.
Nothing like history
Except that Roots is completely fake.
I like his writing style
So did he before he plagiarized it from a white author.
well you can congratulate Murray Fisher for the writing style, because he was the ghost writer of Roots.
Love u Alex haley
Evangelist Francil MorrisAlex Haley wrote a story that forever change America black life it was amazing .
Except that he didn't write it. He was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots. In fact he ripped it off from a white author.
Got very emotional reading Roots, Alex Haley have impacted and inspired millions of people with his writting the Roots and did a wonderful job of bringing his ancestors to life through this book ❤️.
Alex Haley book was exposed as a plagiarism of white Jewish ✡ author's book 📖 The African practically word for word. He was sued by the author who he payed thousands of dollars for copyright appropriation.
Alex Haley was a fraud. He stole his material from a white author named Courlander and was successfully sued for plagiarism over it. I'm not suggesting Roots wasn't a great miniseries. Just that it's not Alex Haley's true family history. He made it up.
this hack ripped off another book called the African,his so called ansestor that he cited in roots is also fake,go look up Alex being being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for plagiarism
Mick Jenkins brought me here.
I wonder how Alex Haley feel about the roots remake.
Alex reminds me of my deceased uncles, they talk so intelligent about Big lies, that everyone believes them no matter how crazy their story sounds
@@erickanew Alex Haley was a fraud. I wonder who he felt about the original 1977 Roots (since it wasn't even his work).
It sucked...No life....
Salute
Brilliant..!!!!
Did he actually do any of this or was he capping??
The 18 people who disliked this are unnerved because they realize that their perception of America is wrong.
Actually, Alex Haley was a fraud. You have internet access. So check it out. He was successfully sued for plagiarism over his works that served as the basis for Roots. In fact the stole his material from a white author.
You do know that Roots is a film right? Not a historical documentary. This film did more damage than good. It's nonsense.
Nope they probably disliked this video because they know the facts about Alex Haley. Haley was sued for plagiarizing Roots, copying the storyline and passages word for word from The African and eventually settled in court paying out the author for stealing his work. When Roots was first published Haley claimed it was historical record and that Kunta Kinte was a real person, and his ancestor. When it was conclusively proven this was a lie, Haley began to change his story.
Great real writer
no he stole from coulander
@@carlovandenbrink8779 Exactly. In fact he also plagiarized from other authors too. A complete fraud. But it amuses me that he was successfully sued by a white author for his works that served as the basis for Roots.
A great thief.
Haley plagiarised the storyline from The African, written by Courlander. And Roots was written by Murray Fisher, a white man who did a lot of ghost writing for Haley.
😭❤️🙏🏻 Amazing x x
He gave the world the truth, RIP
nope
The irony..He literally lied 😂 and admitted to lying. He plagiarized his book and was sued, he had to pay back half his proceedings.
Truth? Not much of a history buff are you?
Haley claimed white man invaded African during the 1700s and captured the blacks, which is historically false. Most of the African slaves shipped to America were sold to the white man by African tribes.
Please where can I get the movie? "Roots?"
Amazon
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Alex Haley was sued for plagiarism for this book
@@dullknife5468 Mr. Haley defended his work. He never claimed every aspect of his book was real. The book Roots was based on his family's oral history. So some aspects was unverifiable, possibly wrong and dramatized. The fact remains those people existed. There videos on RUclips showing pictures of Alex Haley's extended family.
Alex Haley definitely defended his work. I'm not shocked he was sued at some point. A lot of successful people have to deal with opportunists, critics and grifters. Regardless, Mr. Haley was likely advised by lawyers to settle to avoid more innuendo, rumors and bad publicity. Besides, Mr. Haley never claimed every aspect of his book was true. He stated Roots was based on his family's oral history. Therefore some parts are unverifiable, possibly wrong and dramatized. There are videos here on RUclips that show pictures of his family and where they lived and worked. And we all know Chattel Slavery was horrible and real. Roots remains an iconic story of resilience.
this is Deep
Deep fake.
Peace. This is the part he stole from Harold Courlander. Google it yourself.
Peace.
Deen Truth ok so the rest was true
Haley paid him $650k. So I guess his book, THE AFRICAN was worth it. lol
@@alisastevenson6536 you must have not did the research....
Well said. 👍
@@viktorwolfe8333 Exactly. Roots is completely fake. At best, it was a word of mouth story handed down through generations of people who couldn't read or write and embellished by Hollywood to sell to a TV audience. But yes, Alex Haley was successfully sued for plagiarism. So it wasn't even his family history.
Terrific story, pity it wasn't true!!!
No only did this hack compile a book thats full of inacuracies,he also stole the story from another book called "the african",he also cited things and tried to make it as if these things are in the historical record(which it clearly wasent and was proven wrong), he was then sued for plagiarism and was forced to pay a total in the region of a few hundred thousand dollars.
The only thing this book did was spread hate and divsion.
🤔 Mmmm. Okay Alex
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The worst thing that was created is “ nicknames “ how the hell someone supposed to know their relative if you don’t even know their real names! Stupid!
Why did you plagiarize the book,Alex
Greedy D he didn’t just the part of coming to America
hailey stole from coulander
@@carlovandenbrink8779 Yep.
For money.
hes only human.
This August 11th will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alex Haley.
... and that matters to anyone ?
@@jacksonheathen2092 anyone who values the work that he brought. Obviously not to you. Now you can continue to keep your damn mouth shut.
This man is a liar lmao
Lol facts and these comments are so sad
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