From barbecues to bikinis by the pool, the last Monday of May marks a date Americans look forward to every year. This Memorial Day was destined to be one for the calendar, particularly for prime-time television, if not for the viewership Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference Finals is promised to attract, for the premiere of the History Channel's anticipated revival of 1977's hallmark "Roots" series. If you feel the same way as Snoop Dogg feels about the classic slave narrative being remade for the audience in 2016 though, you know which program you won't be tuning in to in light of the rapper's advice for "real n*ggas" to follow suit in abstaining from such movies and shows.
“No disrespect but I can’t watch no motherf*cking black movies where n*ggas get dogged out — 12 Years A Slave, ‘Roots,’ ‘Underground,’ I can’t watch none of that sh*t,” said Snoop. "They just gonna keep beatin’ that sh*t in our heads in how they did us, huh? I mean, I don’t understand it, man. They just wanna keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago.”
Monday's episode will be the first of four, running on consecutive nights through Thursday (June 2). The historic drama, based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Alex Haley's epic novel on his family legacy, will star T.I., Emayatzy Corinealdi, Laurence Fishburne, Roman Armstrong, Mekhi Phifer, Carlacia Grant and Forest Whitaker. Many are touting the classic American drama's remake a necessary one in preserving African American history for the "Black Lives Matter" generation. Snoop's Instagram thrashing of the revision comes more than four months after his anti-Oscars rant in January. It appears that in it he conveys that his take on the direction of the African-American historical narrative is a bit different, as he encouraged "Let’s create our own sh*t based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. Fuck that old sh*t.”
Source: yahoo.com
