Snoop Dogg dömer ut slavserie: ”Fuck den skiten”
Rapparen Snoop Dogg uppmanar sina fans att bojkotta en nyversion av den klassiska tv-serien Roots som sänds på The History Channel, skriver The Hollywood Reporter. Serien är baserad på den Pulitzerbelönade boken av Alex Haley som bland annat skildrar en grupp människors liv som slavar i den amerikanska södern.
– Låt oss skapa våra egna grejer baserade på nuet, hur vi lever och hur vi inspirerar folk i dag... Fuck den där gamla skiten.
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Roots sändes första gången 1977
Wikipedia (en)
Roots is an American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family; the series first aired, on ABC-TV, in 1977. Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third highest rated episode for any type of television series, and the second most watched overall series finale in U.S. television history. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte.
A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas TV movie, starring Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. first aired in 1988. A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother.
In 2016, a remake of the original mini-series, with the same name, was commissioned by the History Channel, due to be screened by the channel on Memorial Day, an annual commemoration of the American Civil War.
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