Snoop Dogg says he is boycotting the 'Roots' miniseries in expletive-laced video
A reboot of Roots, the 1977 miniseries based on Alex Haley's novel, debuts Monday on History, A&E and Lifetime. Snoop Dogg will definitely not be watching.
The rapper posted an expletive-laced video message to Instagram on Monday criticizing films and television shows that focused on slavery and calling on his fans to boycott the four-part miniseries.
"No disrespect, but I can't watch no motherfucking more black movies where n----s get dogged down... They going to just to keep beating that shit into our heads about how they did us, huh? I mean, I don't understand America, they just wanna keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but guess what? We're taking the same abuse. Think about that part. When are y'all gonna make a motherfucking series about the success that black folks is having?"
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"I ain't watching that shit... fuck them television shows," he continued. "Let's create our own shit based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what's real. Fuck that old shit."
Roots follows the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery. The original, which starred LeVar Burton, went on to win nine Emmys.
Burton also executive produced the reboot, and said in an interview with Mother Jones that he believes "it essential that we continually remind ourselves" of the past.
"I'm hoping that the conversation around Roots when it airs will fill in the gaps so that it is absolutely, unavoidably clear that America today is directly related to America of the antebellum South and the slave trade," he said. "And that some of the issues that we still grapple with have their roots in slavery and its attendant legacy of racism."
"We need to have these voices out here. We need to know where we come from. We need to know how we got here," Olivia Cole, who stared in the original, told ABC News. “I think it should be told to every generation.”
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