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I am somewhat disturbed that noONE has posted, in this Month of February --- the Greatest American History Journal by the Great American Author, Alex Haley---'ROOTS'. I am somewhat disturbed that our great liberal writer from NYCity, recommends to BIA books about slaverAmericana, but does'nt recommend the greatest of American Historical slaver things. I, will, with limited NYCity greatness, try in this Subject to give small passages of American History Importance, from the Novel 'ROOTS'--- in hopes of giving Courage to Americans --- to understand Our History from sea to shining sea...................
Posted By: powell robert
Tuesday, February 28th 2012 at 8:06AM
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The History of the African and Muslim People that became slaves in America
--did not start with the paganChristian GIVING exAmericanSlaves a SEPARATE history----they refered to as 'black'History.
History is History --- the events make NOW....................
and I for ONE, do not look to europe or paganChristianity for the startingPoint of the History of America.......
Tuesday, February 28th 2012 at 8:13AM
powell robert
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ROOTS---by Alex Haley
page 298
The first time he had taken the massa to one of these, 'high-falutin' to-dos, as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion-- but most of all a deep loneliness and melancholy from which it took .....to recover. He couldn't believe that such incredible wealth actually existed, that people really lived that way. It took him a long time.....to realize that they didn't live that way, that it was all strangely unreal, a kind of beautiful dream the white folks were having, a lie they were telling themselves: that goodness can come from badness, that it's possible to be civilized with one another without treating as human beings those whose blood, sweat and mother's milk made possible the life of privilege they led.
Tuesday, February 28th 2012 at 6:54PM
powell robert
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Brother Rob,
I was wondering what took you so 'dang' long to post on "Roots", eh! Excellent choice for Black History Month indeed.
Tuesday, February 28th 2012 at 9:20PM
Jen Fad
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Least we Forget, for the sake of HISTORY in this Great February, our european, native and african Ancestors-----and their STORY, that the slaverAmericana History BEGAN
.....when the paganChristian Europeans having LOST the CRUSADE; could not go through the Russian/Turkish Muslim Lands of the East, or the African Muslim Lands of the South
---they traveled in the dark toward the paganMonsters of the Sea---West to AMerica.
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 302
"Who dat?" said the voice .....
"AsSalaamuAlaikum! said Kunta,
......De white folks gimme de name Pompey, but my real one's Boteng Bediako.........
In Africa, Kunta was sure, this man would have been a kintango, or an alcala, if not a chief himself..............I was plannin' to go to Mecca an' Timbuktu an' Mali......but I got STOLE.......
No evening of his life had ever meant more to him...........................
Wednesday, February 29th 2012 at 6:09PM
powell robert
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Where are the CELEBRATERS of HISTORY on BIA pages for this book?
Where are the College Professors that made a LIVING out of separating, JIM CROWING; AMERICAN HISTORY for an affirmative action program to SEPARATE Truth, Again...............?
oh well,
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 198
Kunta was already so numb with terror that he hardly noticed .... the toubob crowd moved ....around him. Then, with short sticks and whip.....with their bare hands prodding him......his gentials.
"Three hundred dollars!....three fifty!"....."This is a choice young *****!..."Seven fifty!"..."Eight fifty!"
The toubob held a ...whip, and a chain....linked to twenty people, or most of them were black, some brown walking ahead of him.
Kunta saw, ......some of the tribes: Foulah, Yoruba, Mauretanian, Wolof, Mandinka.
Hope surged in Kunta. Would the black ones free him now? But he no sooner ......the flame lit their faces as they stood looking at him........they were laughing at him. What kind of people were these who looked down upon their own.....and worked as goats for the toubob? Where had they come from? They looked as Africans looked, but clearly they were not of Africa..........................
Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 12:41PM
powell robert
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Great point, Robert.
thank you.
Alex Haley deserves to be honored--and you did that!!! And not only for his ROOTS epic but his Autobiography of Malcolm X. Well done!!!
Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 4:50PM
Richard Kigel
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{...Hope surged in Kunta. Would the black ones free him now? But he no sooner ......the flame lit their faces as they stood looking at him........they were laughing at him. ...}
You know, I feel this way often with our people. Instead of helping one another to better ourselves and our people, many mock and laugh... worst thing you can do to someone. We must be our brother's keeper. It's the golden rule in my opinion.
What I loved most about Kunta is that he never forgot where he came from nor where he was going. He maintained the sense of pride in who he was inspite of where he was... in bondage. Slavery broke a man's spirit, but in Kunta it failed to do that. I love Kunta for what he maintained and only God can give a man the grace to keep hoping and believing.
Excellent blog piece for Black History Month!
Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 5:26PM
Jen Fad
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Oh Healers and Intelligencia
We Are One America, One World, With One History that has Made us ALL, that has Effected us ALL
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 120
....so Kunta seated himself among those in the outer circle---.................among the Council of Elders.....he heard one of them ask:
"Can anyone say how many of us are getting stolen?"
They were discussing slave taking.....that toubob had been stealing people and shipping them in chains to the kingom of the wite cannibals......
....then the AlImano said, "We can only thank Allah that it's less now than it was."
......"Why do we count only those taken away by the tou bob?" asked the AraFang. "We must count also the burned baobabs where villages once stood. He has killed more in fires and in fighting him than he has ever taken away!"
..."Will toubob never change?"
That will be, said one of the elders, "when the river flows backward!"
Saturday, March 3rd 2012 at 7:44PM
powell robert
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yes sweetIrma,
the 'whiteCannibals'----they did eat the thoughts, culture and African out of their slaves.
as Dr. Haley points out with his choice of Written Masterpiece above
............as Historians have 'cannibalized' ----American History.............
hopefully by 2013, your Cow will REALIZE, ----Our AMERICAN HISTORY is AMERICAN HISTORY!
Sunday, March 4th 2012 at 8:50AM
powell robert
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again, it surprises me that so FEW BIA commentators that subjectedFebruary Blogs about all sorts of MEANINGLESS charges and books, COULD not find time to comment on the MOST Celebrated and Successful American History Portrayal.
Where are the CELEBRATERS of HISTORY on BIA pages for this Great American Classic?
Where are the College Professors that made a LIVING out of separating, JIM CROWING; AMERICAN HISTORY for an affirmative action program to SEPARATE Truth, Again...............?
oh well,
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 270
"You ever seen Injuns?" the fiddler demanded.
"Dey was her 'fo' white folks............"White man figger whoever somewhere 'fore him don't count. He call dem savages."
"Y'all Africans and Injuns made de same mistake-lettin' white folks into where you live. You offered him to eat and sleep, then first thing you know he kickin' you out and LOCKIN' you up!"
........ITS our HISTORY!
Monday, March 12th 2012 at 7:22AM
powell robert
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Hello to All,
What I am about to say is important! Alex Haley was not an African! However, Mr. Haley might have been as ignorant as you all are when he died believing that he is an African and is from Africa.
Mr. Haley was from a new race of people (Black Americans) born out of the ashes of plantation slavery.
Why I say that Mr. Haley was from a new race of people is that by the time Mr. Hanley was born enough African DNA were wiped out by the constant breeding by the White American men upon their female slaves and by the same token there could never be enough White American DNA to make us Black Americans Caucasian people.
Consequentially, we are a new race of people. In other words, we lost too much of African DNA and don't have enough White DNA and since we can neither be African nor White then obviously we are a new race of people as I have been saying because we can reproduce ourselves. We are Black Americans and we can reproduce Black Americans just like ourselves the same as Chinese-Americans can reproduce Chinese-Americans. Am I making sense?
I am Black America's first genuine prophet and all prophets know who their people are and the prophet is always racially matched to his people, am I right.
It is understandable that you all do not know who you are and God does not expect you to know because you all are ignorant knuckleheads because of how we came into existence. We were bred into existence the same as animals for the purpose of animal like labor work for White America over 500 years.
Now, you and I know there is no such thing as intelligent slaves. Our brains were not needed. Our muscles are what White America needed and therefore we were purposefully made to be ignorant people until the day God came for us and that day has come.
So the question now is to you knuckleheads is are we a new race of people or if we are not a new race of people then are we Africans or White Americans?
I maintain and I will always maintain that Black Americans are a new race of people born out of the ashes of plantation slavery because it is true.
In conclusion, Mr. Haley is our history since he is a Black American. In my lifetime Black Americans will secure a reasonable and fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders to worship God, pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way so we can tell the world our own history untangled from White American history. Do you see my point?
The real problem is that you all do not want to believe what I say even though you cannot say I am wrong about anything am I right.
I said that Robert could never be a Muslim because he is not an Arabian man! Am I making sense?
What say any of you?
Monday, March 12th 2012 at 4:14PM
Harry Watley
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mrWhatley,
NO as always; for the ---26,211,111st time you NEVER make sense to me or even to Kunta Kinte -- the central thought of this BLOG subject.----
subject comments only-----
oh well,
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 255
When he went back to his own hut, Kunta was in turmoil of emotion about mingling with these black ones............he recalled something Omoro had said once......"When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can you pick up anything."
"Git my fingers back to ......fiddle ....." Aint't much I ain't seen an done even if'n you don't know what i'm talkin' bout. White folks says all Africans knows is livin' in grass huts an' runnin' 'roun' killin' an' eatin' one 'nother."
"see whit I means?...............all dat stuff," ....ain't goin' nowheres, ......Toby, you hear?'
Kunta's face flashed with anger. "Kunta Kinte"!
Wednesday, March 21st 2012 at 6:29PM
powell robert
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no commentators? --- whitney, hoods, and coons only for BIA intelligencia?
Ok
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 272
Kunta wondered what the rules were, but the gardner kept on talking,
"Reason massa like he is 'cause he of a family was rich even 'fore dey come here from dat England 'crost de water.......most massas jes' tries to act like dey is.
'Cause most of dese massas ain't nothin' but coonhunters..............
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 8:24PM
powell robert
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This is African American History
Friday, December 6th 2013 at 7:37PM
powell robert
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ROOTS and Alex Haley are American AfricanAmerican History
BIA, is an African American Family wwwebSite...............
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 397
Kunts's ears were riveted upon the massa's dialogue.....
"At a county seat auction the other day,' ..."I was astonished the everyday field hands are selling twice to three times......carpenters, brickmasons, blacksmiths...leatherworkers, sailmakers....."
"....More than a million slaves already in the country......yet the ships still can't seem to bring enough new ones to supply those Deep South bottomlands trying to meet the demands of the northern mills"
but if YOU must always go OFF SUBJECT with your mentalChallenges....ok
President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba IS South African History!
your Dr. Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry pointed out that the USA Government in --2008---
---under Our Leader George W. Bush finally released President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba from the TERRORIST list..........
--- President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba was a close friend of President Muammar AlKaddaffi, President Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, President Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa and other antiRACIST, antiCOLONIALIST leaders......
--- President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba would NEVER have survived prison without the physical and financial support of the Muslim Populations of South Africa.
--- President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba LEFT the presidency of South Africa with MORE poverty, MORE AIDS deaths and greater NativeAfrican poverty..........
thank you for your American History moments..........
Saturday, December 7th 2013 at 12:50PM
powell robert
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Robert,
You said this, “ROOTS and Alex Haley are American AfricanAmerican History”
This is not true. Mr. Haley is a Black American and not an African American.
Long before Mr. Haley was born White American men sperms were already active making a new race of people that Mr. Haley was born out of.
Ms. Bell who was Mr. Haley’s fifth great-grand mother and the wife of the pure African Kunta Kanta was made from White sperm. Chicken George who was the first grand-son was already tainted with White sperms.
By the time Mr. Haley was born he was part of a new race of people as all Black Americans are.
So, Mr. Haley is not an African. Mr. Haley is from a new race of people born out of the ashes of plantation slavery.
Saturday, December 7th 2013 at 5:21PM
Harry Watley
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Israel sweetIrma is a nation made of europeanGUILT, with some europeanJewish colonial communists STEALING the land of the Palestinian which by the way President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba SAID before I did............
As a BELIEVER of AtTaurat ---- I say the same thing as Believers of Musa(as) have said there should be NO Israel in Palestinian Land.............
and let us not forget that until 2008 USA Governments of JFK(had CIA arrest Mandela), LBJ, RMN, Jimmy, Ronald Reagan, BUSH1-2, BillyClinton ALL called President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Madiba a terroristAND the founders of the FalseStateIsrael were called terroristsSO be careful on using that word about Our President Baraka Hussein Obama.
ROOTS---Alex Haley
page 270
"You ever seen Injuns?" the fiddler demanded.
Kunta hesitated. "I seen some"
"Dey was here 'fo' white folks. White folks tell you one of dem name Columbus discover dis place. But if he founn' Inuns here, he aint't discover it, is he?" The fiddler was warming to his subject.
"White man figger whoever somewhere 'fore him don't count............he call dem savages."
OFF SUBJECT Irma --- no RICH cannot write this TRUTH
and NO harry you are not 'black'
--- you are an American Citizen of African Origin in 2013
Saturday, December 7th 2013 at 8:56PM
powell robert
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ITIS SO FUNNY HOW WE ALLOW TV TO TEACH US OUR BIAHISTORY...BUT IT IS THE ONLY WAY TOSE LIKE KEN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT TIS BOOK IS ABOUT VIOLATING THE THEACHINGS OF HER HOLY BIBLE AND I KNOW JEN CAN NOT ALLOW TJIOS FACT FROM THE REAL WORLD!!!...AND WHY WE STILL CAN'T ACCEPT IN CHATTEL SLAVERY WERE WRITTEN THE GREATES BOOKS ABOUT BI AIN AMERICA AND YES WHY ROBERT CAN NOT ACCEPT RICH'S BOOK AS IT IS ABOUT CHETELLS ACTUALING HAVING HUMEN WORKING BRAINS WHICH KEEPS JENS FORM OF RELIGION IS TO BE USED TO ABUSED OTHERS ALIVE AND WELL. (NUP/ SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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"I" am so, so very, very happy to read your blog robert as it is aperfect example of...
I AM NOT WILLING TO DO IT MY OWN SELFTHEREFORE I WILL BLAME OTHERS FOR NOT DOING WHAT I WANT DONE BUT AM NOT WILLING TO DO MY SELF. ..
THANKS MUCH robert (smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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OH ROBERT THE JEWISHNESS IS SHOWING...YOU KNOW HOW BADLY ISRAEL NEEDS AMERICA TO GET OUR PRESIDENT TO HELP THEM PAY FOR THEIR WARS ON MUSLIM TERRORIST ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY BELIEVE HE WILL NOT DO SO SINCE HE WAS BORN IN KENYA AND IS IN FACT A MUSLIM AS THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS!!! (NUP/ SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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BIAHISTORY..."THE WORLD MORNS THE DEATH OF NELSON MANDELA"...
AN AFRICAN THAT WAS ABLE TO HELP FULL FILL A GREAT NEED FOR THE LEGAL RIGHTS TO VOTE FOR CITIZENS IN THEIR LAND OF THEIR BIRTH. (S-M-I-L-E)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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Thanks so much robert for bringing up the subject of eating Amricans by White slavers...right now I can not think of th eship that the Spilburge movie was named for that a mutneyon it lead to the Africans being given a 'fair' trial and as human beings...they took this ship because they thought they were going to be eaten...
the African natives had come to this conclusion, because slave trading never required so many slaves on such a regular bases...
Yes, th emind is to work both ways to ask a queation- to recieve an answer that is understood and not just acting like humans are machines to be programed in a one way direction...
again thanks again robert...and who knows maybe by 2013 Black history month my brother Cow's(nonfiction) book on the Black c. Slave poet P. Wheatly will be finished (smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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whoa OFF SUBJECT no SPELLCHECK queen of TRIFLING
----1000s of comments on my blog with same TIME and DATE
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA | delete | block member
that's OVERKILL -- hey if you don't like my writing just comment --- FOLLOW some RULES
"OH ROBERT THE JEWISHNESS IS SHOWING...YOU KNOW HOW BADLY ISRAEL NEEDS AMERICA TO GET OUR PRESIDENT TO HELP THEM PAY FOR THEIR WARS ON MUSLIM TERRORIST ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY BELIEVE HE WILL NOT DO SO SINCE HE WAS BORN IN KENYA AND IS IN FACT A MUSLIM AS THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS"
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA | delete | block member
I always thought Harry was the MOST obnoxious mentallyDeficient writer at BIA, but you GOT it NOW, girl
Sunday, April 13th 2014 at 7:55PM
powell robert
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***************************A slave cannot be bought....just made**************************************
------The African Asian Empire and the City of Juffre.......of Kunta Kinte
in the 17th 18th Century.....practiced the Monotheistic Belief of the Creator of Adaam(as)
----The African Asian Empire and the City of Juffre.......of Kunta Kinte
in the 17th 18th Century.....were LARGER, FREEER and MORE JUST.....than the americanColonies
Monday, June 6th 2016 at 8:19AM
robert powell
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When will it air again?
Monday, June 6th 2016 at 1:14PM
Steve Williams
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Too much truth..... haven't seen it yet.....
Saturday, February 2nd 2019 at 12:43PM
robert powell
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I like these reminders of Irma, hard to believe it's almost 5 years she's been gone. I wish her account had not gotten messed up and all her comments bunched up on April 10. Great blog Robert, I think I need to read this book again.
Saturday, February 2nd 2019 at 1:46PM
Steve Williams
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