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Bandit

(21,475 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2015, 03:23 PM Feb 2015

"The Book of the Negro"

Has anyone been watching this mini series? I have only seen a few bits and pieces and it always leaves me with a very bad taste in my mouth but I was wondering it is based on real events. People and I mean the Majority of Americans were extremely cruel people back in the late seventeen hundreds. Or probably what I should say is cruelty was ignored by the vast majority and allowed to flourish.

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"The Book of the Negro" (Original Post) Bandit Feb 2015 OP

Reach out to 1StrongBlackMan JustAnotherGen Feb 2015 #1

I am recording it and I also saw Roots in the 70's it will be interesting to contrast the two kimbutgar Feb 2015 #2

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

1. Reach out to 1StrongBlackMan

Reply to Bandit (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 03:38 PM

Feb 2015

He posted in the AA Group. I tried getting into this last night but I couldn't. . .

kimbutgar

(21,155 posts)

2. I am recording it and I also saw Roots in the 70's it will be interesting to contrast the two

Reply to Bandit (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:50 PM

Feb 2015

They could not show Roots prime time like they did in the 70's today. It was brutal and too many racists were be cheering the slave masters in today's toxic environment.

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