Covered it on Facebook, Twitter and tumblr ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
7. "Aunjanue Ellis WENT IN for this one..." In response to Reply # 0
talk about an actress who is underrated, underseen, woefully underused in films AND television and all that...
she is PERFECTLY CAST as Aminata Diallo. Just owns every scene she is in, which basically ALL of them save for the first episode when Aminata is a little girl.
11. "RE: Why yall ain't tell me bout "The Book of Negroes" BET?" In response to Reply # 0
I watched 5 minutes and it was a tough watch...
You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
17. "RE: it's not "from" BET" In response to Reply # 15
#Actually it's a co-production. CBC (Canada) came on board first and put up some dough for it but BET and a South African broadcaster foot the rest of the bill. According to the author and producer at a talk I went to last year to launch the series.
16. "okay can we talk about last night? well i have some reflections" In response to Reply # 0
#1 as i put wildchild down to sleep i felt compelled with thanks thankful that i am able to raise my child thankful that i know where she is thankful that she knows me so many things we take for granted especially as a black person just watching this show just made me appreciate the time that i live in
#2 yo i NEVER learned about the british freeing slaves like blacks felt more safe with the british in control WOW i never knew that we just learn that the british were bad and no taxation without representation i need to do more research that part of last night's episode blew my mind that is an integral part of our history how the black felts about the making of america and the departure of the british shoot even how the jews treated blacks and slaves
~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
>like-- all of them. Anyway, think I might have to check out >Nova Scotia.
Harmonic was telling me about it when she went I was clueless
They still have race issues ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
its still systematic ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
36. "yep so great they then went to sierra leone" In response to Reply # 34
~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
Atillah Moor Member since Sep 05th 2013 13825 posts
Thu Feb-19-15 11:39 AM
39. "I mean who'd want to be around white folks after all of that?" In response to Reply # 36 Thu Feb-19-15 11:41 AM by Atillah Moor
I think one would want to leave regardless. She could have been in Amish country and still been thinking these folks aren't safe to be around. My point being that although racist-- by the time she got to NS there wouldn't have been much tolerance for any kind of racism period.
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Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days
31. "okay my issue.... *spoilers*" In response to Reply # 0 Thu Feb-19-15 09:58 AM by labcoat
why didn't she hug soloman lindo at the end? i mean she said thank you
but i just feel like through everything he always tried to do right by her even when he purchased her and her daughter he tried to give them a better life he taught her accounting etc
it just was weird to me how could she forgive and love her husband but not lindo?
33. "did she even say thank you?" In response to Reply # 31 Thu Feb-19-15 10:58 AM by lfresh
i thought she gave the stink eye
and as much as i wanted her to forgive as a character i dont have that forgiving nature lol i was feeling hypocritical i'm like dude is trying =(
and yes! the husband! it wasnt clear to me until that scene was he on the boat as well? i thought that was a different kid for some reason ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
44. "Ooooh I finally saw the final episode" In response to Reply # 33
She said thank you It's enough ~~~~ When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries. ~~~~ You cannot hate people for their own good.
40. "lindo was stuck between a rock and a hard place" In response to Reply # 37
like chehura
lindo was a jew he wasnt that respected due to that so he had to play a game that he didnt want to play so he played it in a way that he didnt look like a traitor basically he was a spy
i could actually see his character part of the underground railroad he did the best he could given the consequences
i think that he has always tried to do right by aminata she just couldnt see it because she was so hurt by his dishonesty
42. "dishonesty is dishonesty no matter how you spin it " In response to Reply # 40
and I think that was Aminata's whole thing. though you said you gave us both a better life, why not be forthcoming if that was your true intention?
He most certainly worked the circumstance to his favor. Not hers. He wanted her as a servant because of his wife. The best way to do so was to separate her from her child. In doing so she could focus solely on his wife and her pregnancy.
46. "i kept thinking "this is a good story"" In response to Reply # 0
don't get me wrong, this was really well done.
i think i'm just tired of the good stories. they tug at the heartstrings and then make you feel good about it. fuck that.
pretty much every situation aminata managed to get out of was one faced by thousands if not tens of thousands of others and the result was utter shit. that's the reality i want to see on screen. no redeming white character that makes all the other atrocities okay. nah i want the utter sense of hopelessness that lasts for four centuries.
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