Roots The Saga of an American Family (Modern Classics)

And also the 1970s is when you have Alex Haley's book, Roots, which is a television film, which again kind of dramatizes in a brilliant way the whole horror of the Atlantic slave trade.

We grew up watching the first iteration of the show from Alex Haley, the author who wrote Roots.

It was the first iteration from Alex Haley, the author who wrote Roots.

I read Roots bro. Jury Roots, you would know. You read Roots, you know it's half race in the very beginning.

You sure? I thought that was like the uncle's rule.

Half your age plus seven, which is actually really fucking young, but that was that was the Muslim rule, half your age plus seven.

It was like 34 is what like 17 plus 7, 24. I'm gonna take a stab so it was like, it's actually pretty good.

But then back then in the village, you know, according to the book Alex Haley and Roots, who yeah, did get people, but it's funny to people the book came out, people were like motherfucker and they're like I'm gonna I'm gonna sink this fucking yeah.

Did you read roots, bro? You would know. You read roots, you would know it's half the age in the very beginning.

They tried to give the Muslims credit for wanting to fuck young chicks. They said Muslim rule is half your age plus seven.

So it was like, that's actually pretty good. But then back then in the village, you know, according to the book, Alex Haley and roots who yeah, did get people, but it's funny too, people with the book came out and people were like motherfucker.

So in the African roots, feel that's right. And you explained it right. I was just not, yeah. And the book roots that's what, if you were a widow or, you know, I mean, you know, I don't think back then chicks just like didn't get wiped out. It's fiction.

I read roots, bro. Jerry roots, you know, you read roots, you know, it's half in the very beginning.

They tried to give the Muslims credit for wanting to fuck young chicks. They said Muslim rule is half your age plus seven.

So I think in the book, the guy was like thirty four and had like a I don't know the exact math. It would have been thirty four as well, like seventeen plus seven.

But then back then in the you know, according to the book, Alex Haley and roots who did get people.

In the book roots. That's if you were a widow or, you know, I mean, you know, I don't think back then chicks just like didn't get which is it's fiction.

I'm gonna fact-check it my a fact-check it like they did to roots Alex Haley

If you look at the back cover of Sammy's autobiography, Why Me?, there's a blurb from Alex Haley who wrote Roots, another from Aaron Spelling, the creator of 90210, among a million other things.

My very first novel, which happened to be the book, Roots. Everybody was talking about it.

When he got captured, that was the first thing that just got me in the heart. When Kunta Kinte got captured.

Then the second one was the Middle Passage.

roots by alex hailey