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jfz9580m

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14. I should buy "Roots"

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2026, 10:48 PM

1 hr ago

There was another book I came across that looked interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchild_in_the_Promised_Land

I have not read much black literature.

I saw another book yesterday that could be interesting but the author has a post on Salon that mentioned Malcolm Gladwell and then when I got what it implied - wrt what I am seeing, I knew that though not directly related it is absolutely outrageous and what I am going to the police about locally.

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This is crazy racist: [View all] applegrove 3 hrs ago OP

Nathan Bedford Forrest's memoir will remain on school library shelves, though. sop 3 hrs ago #1

Sounds like a real beauty. applegrove 3 hrs ago #2

what is? there is nothing there. niyad 3 hrs ago #3

Knox County in Tennessee is removing Alex Hailey's books like Roots from school libraries. applegrove 2 hrs ago #5

Oops. I was typing a response to niyad and didn't see that you had already done LoisB 2 hrs ago #7

The more the merrier!!! applegrove 2 hrs ago #9

Ah, the image is there now. It did not show up for me earlier. niyad 2 hrs ago #8

It is a picture of Alex Haley and a picture of his book "Roots' with the notation that LoisB 2 hrs ago #6

What will they think of next? Here. usonian 3 hrs ago #4

Yup.ghads electric_blue68 1 min ago #23

I know where I will not go on vacation RainCaster 2 hrs ago #10

Despicable Joinfortmill 2 hrs ago #11

Trying desperately to revise history. It won't work. surfered 2 hrs ago #12

The book was banned because chapter 84 describes a slave being raped by her owner. highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #13

Somehow I doubt that rape is a concept totally unknown thucythucy 1 hr ago #15

The same people who drool over the OT sex scenes are outraged, I tells ya, outraged that Haley would RVN VET71 1 hr ago #16

I should buy "Roots" jfz9580m 1 hr ago #14

Roots is excellent Unwind Your Mind 1 hr ago #18

Luke 4:24 NewLarry 1 hr ago #17

That will make people want to read the book even more GenThePerservering 1 hr ago #19

They're already taking black peoples voting rights away ChicagoTeamster 1 hr ago #20

Are these shitbags removing the bible too? Because there's plenty of incest and rape in that thing. Dave Bowman 59 min ago #21

Not to mention murder galore. nt eppur_se_muova 5 min ago #22