Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-28396600-20180913230239

I just got done telling a friend about how we are going to meet LeVar Burton at Comic-Con in a few days. I explained to him how LeVar Burton played the role of Kunta Kinte in the movie Roots and he said,

"Roots!? That movie is only good if you play it backwards!" and literally everyone in the room except myself started laughing. As much as I love the people in my small country town, it saddens me just how racist they can be sometimes. I had just got done telling him about how much Roots, a sad movie based on a true story about slavery had emotionally impacted me as a child and the first thing he said afterward was a disgusting racist comment. That is just low.