"Roots": Grunts To Space Ships

"I just  came by, sis, to tell you that I'll be in hiding until the heat dies down over the series."
"What series?"
"Roots."
"Oh, you're gonna watch it?"
"Hell no."
"Why do you say it that way?  It's educational, history, information dramatized to make it more interesting."
"People find their 'Roots' in their history coming out of 'grunts', before there were the languages we have today . . . how did some people get from their 'Roots' in 'grunts' to building space ships and walking on the moon while other people continued stagnating in the ignorance of their 'grunt' history?  All races of people had slavery coming out of their 'grunt' history, but most -- not all, witness the latest generation of blacks killing each other in Chicago and other cities -- moved on from tribal fighting and eating each other to investigating their surroundings on this planet; expanding their history into questioning, building, and overcoming ignorant beliefs.  They came upon culturally weak people stagnating in tribal warfare and enslaving and saw them as useful for brute labor.

"Even when these culturally strong Europeans came into this Western Hemisphere where millions of Indians outnumbered them but were occupied in tribal squabbles, fighting with primitive weapons, kidnapping and enslaving, the Europeans conquered them.  Today, the descendants of conquered and enslaved people glorify the identity of people who don't identify with them.  These descendants of slaves, having no culture far back in their 'Roots' to reach and build on, continue to anchor their survival to a technique that includes classes, conferences, movies, novels, and a series such as 'Roots', hoping that they will load whites up with a ton of guilt ripe for exploitation . . ."
"Maybe, my brother, if you're constantly reminded that your ancestors were slaves that image will stay with you and others . . ."
"No matter how bravely you fight on battlefields throughout the world, take it to the hoops or weave, dip, and snake-hip up and down the gridiron -- even become President?  It also might make you hate somebody . . . if you aren't careful.  Maybe that's why people in Latin American countries never talk about or show their involvement in slavery . . . if they did maybe they wouldn't be so quick to come here calling others racists . . . ."