Snoop says fukk ROOTS, calls for boycott of show

[Rarebird77]

Movies directly about the holocaust: Jakob the liar, the pianist, boy in the striped shirt, defiance etc, Sophie's choice , life is beautiful, triumph of the Will and other academy recognized movies

Movies about ww2 against hatred of Jews: inglorious basterds, the one with tom cruise , band of brothers, American history x, the believer

Not to mention countless history channel documentaries and TV movies.

Who cares...

 

[Raava]

That's the OG movie not this history channel crap.

And the depictions in these movies are not fully accurate. If people are learning their history from a slave movie than that's more damaging than helpful.

This is based off the OG, across 3 networks. They will never show ALL the horrors of slavery. But this is deeper then Slavery was bad and they were forced to work and not get paid. If it starts the conversation and promts more research how can that be worse? It shows beating, hangings, families being ripped apart, rape, and mutilation. It puts faces and viewable content to a generation of black people who need visuals first before they consider anything. Its sad but that's better than the 1 page paragraph about it being taught in school.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

This is based off the OG, across 3 networks. They will never show ALL the horrors of slavery. But this is deeper then Slavery was bad and they were forced to work and not get paid. If it starts the conversation and promts more research how can that be worse? It shows beating, hangings, families being ripped apart, rape, and mutilation. It puts faces and viewable content to a generation of black people who need visuals first before they consider anything. Its sad but that's better than the 1 page paragraph about it being taught in school.

I don't know man.

My kids know all about slavery and never watched roots.

I guess it's good for those that need it. But for the rest of us it's just angering and insulting.

 

[Rarebird77]

Ain't really mad because when u got shyt like this going about & being taught to black kids..

The watering down of slavery

yall nikkas need these reminders..

As long as the shyt is truthful & authentic.... I have no problem wit it..

Snoop need to start a boycott of the current rap gamenikkas been rappin about the same shyt for the last 15yrs





boycott this retarded shyt

Yes me must protect the purity of blacks as slaves. .. .

But not at all make movies about. .. .the buffalo soldiers, matthew henson, or even if we're going to talk slavery, how about more narratives!

Nicodemus, Kansas for example. .

And stop acting like there aren't black people who don't boycott ignorant rap.

Most black people are watching these slaves movies ad nasuem... few people are boycotting.

 

[Raava]

I don't know man.

My kids know all about slavery and never watched roots.

I guess it's good for those that need it. But for the rest of us it's just angering and insulting.

That's you and your kids though. My parents taught me a lot had me in all types of programs about black empowerment and I saw the original Roots. Everybody didn't have that, most people don't anymore.

I don't see how it's insulting. It's history. Are Jewish insulted when we see all the movies, shows, mueseums and documentaries on the holocaust? Are they even insultied about the Prince of Eygpt They want you to never forget and be uncomfortable. It's part of history. No one should ever be insulted by their history.

What we need to work on is getting are full story out that doesn't mean but this part in a vault and not talk about it. Snoop has the Money and voice but instead of putting out what's going on now. He is calling for a boycott of his history.

 

[Rarebird77]

If you uncomfortable with the reality that black people were slaves, you need reexamine why you feel that way. I don't understand why black people should be ashamed of seeing Slave moves. i actually find it disrespectful to the people who when through that. You can't even give them the common decency to let these voices and stories be heard. Cacs have tried so hard to distort these stories and now black people are to afraid watch them. It's cowardly and disrespectful. It comes from a place of wanting white approval. I see through the bullshyt.

UNCOMFORTABLE BEING A SLAVE. . .

That's exactly how I read this entire comment.

Forgive me for not wanting to hear.

BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES.

BLACK SLAVES.

BLACK SLAVES.

On constant repeat in movies geared toward black people.

I happen to think black people are more than slaves so I don't really like to watch slavery movies (which aren't even historically accurate) all the time.

I'm just not into slavery porn.

 

[Rarebird77]

So here you pretend to not know the difference between a fictional story for entertainment, and a Historical movie?

I doubt they do.

They seem to believe that Hollywood is in the business of education and not programming. . so no they think history and fiction intertwined.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Deadass. I'm with Snoop on this one.

Getting real tired of all these dusty ass slave films. I'd love to see a TV mini series on the Haitian Revolution.

But you know Hollywood / White people be

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I don't see how it's insulting. It's history. Are Jewish insulted when we see all the movies, shows, mueseums and documentaries on the holocaust? Are they even insultied about the Prince of Eygpt They want you to never forget and be uncomfortable. It's part of history. No one should ever be insulted by their history.

It's insulting due to the inaccuracy of the stories and more importantly Hollywood general disdain for movies full of black people UNLESS the black people are suffering.

Hollywood tells us they have to whitewash Egyptian history cause the white folks wouldn't want to see a black lead, yet slave movies are all the rage these days.

Triumphant blacks won't sale, but crying, drooling, denegrated blacks do numbers at the box office.

That's not offensive to you?

What we need to work on is getting are full story out that doesn't mean but this part in a vault and not talk about it. Snoop has the Money and voice but instead of putting out what's going on now. He is calling for a boycott of his history.
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Snoop doesn't have the money to fund a Hollywood movie.

And he never said anything about boycotting history. That's the dumb ass strawman Yall made up

 

[LEEeveryday]

Ya'll anticipating the Marvel movie Black Panther?...

 

[Raava]

It's insulting do to the inaccuracy of the story's and more importantly Hollywood general disdain for movies full of black people UNLESS the black people are suffering.

Hollywood tells us they have to whitewash Egyptian history cause the white folks wouldn't want to see a black lead, yet slave movies are all the rage these days.

Triumphant blacks won't sale, but crying, drooling, denegrated blacks do numbers at the box office.

That's not offensive to you?


Snoop doesn't have the money to fund a Hollywood movie.

And he never said anything about boycotting history. That's the dumb ass strawman Yall made up

The 2 have nothing to do with each other God's of Egypt has nothing to do with my history or history period. It was fictional work based the names of some of the Gods of Eygpt but rooted in nothing historal at all. Not the plot, the story, or anything it may as well been Thor. What actual story was God's of Egypt depicting inaccuratly? The gods of Eygpt weren't even human. I'm not worried about white people going white people do: white washing everything and making the greatness of others theirs.


The is supposed the be the actual history of Alex Haley's family and a realer depiction of salvery. Snoop is calling to boycott it, how is this a strawman? This story is not about Triump?

There have been other movies with the protagonist being black and not a slave or thug but powerful. We need more way more that should be the focus. When they are made we have to support them. Snoop can't afford a TV special? But he can produce radio shows and other things really? Hell he could do something like a web series, is he? he can't ge together with other celebrities like they did for Underground? Really?

 

[Ol’Otis]

we need a balance


we're tired of seeing slave/civil right movies
because they're one sided
nikkas taking an ass whipping with dignity (Selma, The Butler,etc)

 

[Ol’Otis]

let's focus on universal themes

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The 2 have nothing to do with each other God's of Egypt has nothing to do with my history or history period. It was fictional work based the names of some of the Gods of Eygpt but rooted in nothing historal at all. Not the plot, the story, or anything it may as well been Thor. What actual story was God's of Egypt depicting inaccuratly? The gods of Eygpt weren't even human. I'm not worried about white people going white people do: white washing everything and making the greatness of others theirs.

Gods of Egypt is not the only movie depicting Egyptians as white.

The is supposed the be the actual history of Alex Haley's family and a realer depiction of salvery. Snoop is calling to boycott it, how is this a strawman? This story is not about Triump?

He's calling for the boycott of the movie. Not the history behind it

There have been other movies with the protagonist being black and not a slave or thug but powerful. We need more way more that should be the focus. When they are made we have to support them. Snoop can't afford a TV special? But he can produce radio shows and other things really? Hell he could do something like a web series, is he? he can't ge together with other celebrities like they did for Underground? Really?

And snoop is actually in works to bring out a show right now depicting exactly what he called for.

 

[Matt504]

So here you pretend to not know the difference between a fictional story for entertainment, and a Historical movie?

lets take a look at Snoop's argument:

No disrespect but I can't watch no motherfukking more Black movies with nikkas getting dogged out.

This is coming from a person who has built an entire career on producing media with Black people getting dogged out but it's only a problem when the dogging comes at the hands of White people.

..."12 years a slave", "Roots", I can't watch none of that shyt, I'm sick of this shyt, how the fukk they gon put "Roots" on, on Memorial day?

It's fukking Memorial day idiot.

They gon just keep beating that shyt in our heads of how they did us huh?

"they" in this context, clearly refers to White people, so his issue isn't that depictions of "nikkas being dogged out" bothers him, it's only when "nikkas" are dogged out by white people that he's bothered.

I mean, I don't understand America, they just wanna just keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but guess what, we taking the same abuse, think about that part.

very fukking rich coming from OG Crip member Snoop Dogg, a member of a gang organization that inflicts abuse, sells drugs and murders Black people in low income neighborhoods all across America but he doesn't boycott any of that, there are no Instagram videos condemning any of that because that's "just entertainment".

When y'all gon make a motherfukking series about the success that Black folks is having?

The only success we having is "Roots" and "12 years a Slave" and shyt like that huh?

fukk y'all, I ain't watching that shyt and I advise you motherfukkers that's real nikkas like myself, fukk them television shows, lets create our own shyt based on today, how we living and how we inspiring people today, Black it's what's real.

fukk that old shyt

Snoop is a Black man ashamed of his people's history, he finishes his silly rant with "fukk that old shyt", the "old shyt" being slavery as that's the only thing he could be talking about in this context, which is to also say, "fukk our history, lets focus on now".

People keep drawing all of these comparisons to the Jewish people but you'd be hard pressed to find a Jewish person who is ashamed of their past, their mantra is literally "Never again" and Black people would much rather a "Lets just move past it" approach to things.