In 2012 when I first started watching "Finding Your Roots" my family and I were so excited.
My husband parents and my mother were transitioning ftom here and we were their caregivers.. So when this fabulous fantastic new program came on p b s directed towards Black Americans of Afrikan descent we were excited.
As everyone knows Black Americans of Afrikan descent due to slavery have it almost impossible to locate their/ our roots. So to see Black people discover their connection with the ancestors it allowed a new rebirth. But It went downhill when pbs convinced Dr Gates to include non-Black Americans specifically white people.
Till this day I don't understand how we as a group who have gone through much more than any other people due to enslavement being sold and kidnapped from another continent thousands of miles away to this so called new land. And where we were regulated to being blind in finding our "roots" yet white people and other non black people don't have that problem yet pbs thought it was necessary to include white people? I guess to get their approval they MUST be included? It doesn't make sense! That's why i'm no longer a member of p b s because of its bias against Black Americans by always leaning towards white people of European descent and other non-Bkack lands.
I wish Dr Gates would have stayed strong and maybe some other network could have picked him up and kept it specifically for Black Americans of Afrikan descent.
We LOVE you Dr. Gates. Thank you!!!
My husband parents and my mother were transitioning ftom here and we were their caregivers.. So when this fabulous fantastic new program came on p b s directed towards Black Americans of Afrikan descent we were excited.
As everyone knows Black Americans of Afrikan descent due to slavery have it almost impossible to locate their/ our roots. So to see Black people discover their connection with the ancestors it allowed a new rebirth. But It went downhill when pbs convinced Dr Gates to include non-Black Americans specifically white people.
Till this day I don't understand how we as a group who have gone through much more than any other people due to enslavement being sold and kidnapped from another continent thousands of miles away to this so called new land. And where we were regulated to being blind in finding our "roots" yet white people and other non black people don't have that problem yet pbs thought it was necessary to include white people? I guess to get their approval they MUST be included? It doesn't make sense! That's why i'm no longer a member of p b s because of its bias against Black Americans by always leaning towards white people of European descent and other non-Bkack lands.
I wish Dr Gates would have stayed strong and maybe some other network could have picked him up and kept it specifically for Black Americans of Afrikan descent.
We LOVE you Dr. Gates. Thank you!!!