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sunday night, roots begins in eight parts on abc. if it sounds like i m plugging it, i am. basically, television will never be the same again. there was really no bigger television event than roots. it was based on a 1976 book by alex haley about his family in africa and coming to america as slaves and what happens to them as the centuries go on. i will go to my grave believing that roots is america s story. it s not just black america s story. we might have come over in the bottom of the ship. but we all came over on ships. kinte means stay put, but it don t mean stay a slave. as a 19-year-old kid, you know roots is my first job. we re not children. we re very close to being men, nyo boto. what s your name? kunta. kunta kinte. the character that i got to portray in roots, kunta kinte the adult was a dream role. it was really genius to cast
holocaust brought it home. it made it real, even though it was a hollywood creation. sunday night, roots begins in eight parts on abc. if it sounds like i m plugging it, i am. basically, television will never be the same again. there was really no bigger television event than roots. it was based on a 1976 book by alex haley about his family in africa and coming to america as slaves and what happens to them as the centuries go on. i will go to my grave believing that roots is america s story. it s not just black america s story. we might have come over in the bottom of the ship, but we all came over on ships. my name means stay put. but it don t mean stay a slave. as a 19-year-old kid, roots was my first job. we re not children. we re very close to being men. what s your name? kunta. kunta kintae. the character that i got to