What do you think was the most rememerable scene in the movie roots?!
Question: Kunta Kinta getting a beating and told his name was Toby.
I remember watching it on TV. I was in the 9th grade. It made a lasting impression on me. I am going to buy the DVD later this year.
Answers: Kunta Kinta getting a beating and told his name was Toby.
I remember watching it on TV. I was in the 9th grade. It made a lasting impression on me. I am going to buy the DVD later this year.
when Kunta had to choose between getting his penis or his foot cut off because he ran away.
Definitely, while being whipped for not taking his slave name, he declares "my name is... Kunta Kinte!"
I'll never forget the scene of how the white slave traders brutally trapped Kunta in Africa when he went out to hunt by the river. Remember how his parents warned him not to go but he told them he was a man now and could go whereever he wanted?It took almost an hour before Kunta stopped struggling against the slave trappers and settled down to accept his dismal fate. I thought young Levar Burton who played Kunta Kinte did an excellent job of conveying his emotions and pain through his facial expressions.
Can you imagine how brutal and culture-shocking that must have been for him to be removed from his familiar surroundings and loving family/friends only to live the majority of his life in captivity and work for slave masters and people who didn't give a hoot about him?
The movie does a good job of depicting slave life but in that instance I think they sterilize the wicked intentions of the white man and how actually wrong that was in this country's history.
I'm glad that nothing like that ever happened to me and I think that period is an unfortunate black mark on U.S. history and the colonists/slave traders who engaged in that behavior. Especially since the U.S. was founded by colonists who wanted to escape a king in England who they felt were suppressing them and imposing on their human rights. How ironic and hypocritical of those early plantation owners to turn around and do the same thing to African slaves that they wanted to escape in England!
Very unsettling and it should have never happened.