Talk:Kunta Kinte
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Nobody questions the existance of Kunta Kinte or his being Alex Haley's great great great great grandfather. Roots is accepted as half fictitious and half factual, no one has ever proven that Roots and the character of Haleys great X4 grandfather was a blatant fabrication.Except Our King Ricky Marcelle Beasley and his wife Sarah Ashley Arceneaux Harris Beasley. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.141.94.61 (talk • contribs) 27 May 2006.
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- OK, what is known about the documentation behind Haley's research? But please let's keep it civil and focussed on improving the encyclopedia article or don't bother.DavidOaks 22:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Weren't the four men who captured him black?
-- Mik 22:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
(Reguarding "One day in 1767, when the young warrior left his village to chop wood, he was attacked by four white men who knocked him out and took him captive.")
"the only monument in the world to bear the name of an actual enslaved African" seems unlikely. What about Pero's Bridge for example? Citation needed methinks. Richard Pinch 18:56, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
"In actuality, Roots was the first miniseries on television, and coincidentally, it was shown around the time of the bicentennial celebration of the United States." This is not supported by the article Miniseries from which one can gather that British television had been using the minseries format muich earlier, and that even if the claim is limited to American television, then Roots was an early but not the first miniseries, although was was indeed hugely successful. The comment about the bicentennial seems an odd and slightly vague way of giving the date: it was broadcast in 1977. Richard Pinch 16:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
