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Keep Hate Alive—It’s An Election Year! The ROOTS Racket Rides Again

John Derbyshire   May 30, 2016

The national appetite for stories—books and movies—about white people being beastly to black people is apparently insatiable.
A blockbuster of this genre, which I’ve referred to as “Abolitionist Porn”, was the novel and TV movie Roots, back in the 1970s. The book, written by professional black guy Alex Haley, was published in 1976; the TV show aired in 1977.

There was great enthusiasm at the time about both book and mini-series. I’ll confess: I was caught up in that enthusiasm. I hadn’t been in the U.S.A. very long.  I hadn’t shaken off my youthful naïvete about race. And look, it was 1977—forty years closer to Jim Crow than we are today.

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