Category Archives: Roots

“Of Booker T. Washington and Others”

Posted on February 3, 2011 by jamesbradfordpate

In W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, I read the essay, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.”  To read it, see here.  It was from this essay that the character of Simon Haley in Roots: The Next … Continue reading →

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“Of Our Spiritual Strivings”

Posted on February 1, 2011 by jamesbradfordpate

February is Black History Month, and, this February, time permitting, I will be blogging through two books: W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (which is dated to 1903), and Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery. I’ve watched Roots: … Continue reading →

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The Union’s Dark Side; Culture and the Bible; Ecology; Cutting Corners; Destiny; Philonic Midrash; Lena Horne

Posted on May 10, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1. Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., Pistols and Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana’s Florida Parishes, 1810-1899, page 112: Hoping to exploit the demoralized condition of the local residents and the few Confederate troops in the area, the Federals moved … Continue reading →

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Roots TNG 6-7, Corroborating Word-Of-Mouth, Baal and El

Posted on February 26, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched Episodes 6-7 of Roots: The Next Generation.  The subject I’ll be focusing on in this section is vocation, which also popped up in some of my academic readings. Alex Haley wondered what … Continue reading →

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Roots TNG 4-5, Reward and Punishment in Wisdom Literature?, YHWH Alone, We’re Rodents!, Pythagoreans on the Cosmos’ Origin

Posted on February 22, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched Episodes 4-5 of Roots: The Next Generation.  I usually choke up when I watch the end of Episode 4, in which Will Palmer holds up his new grandson, Alex Haley, to the … Continue reading →

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Roots TNG 2-3, Collins on Enoch, Psalm to the Real Solomon, Yada, Tabula Rasa (Sort Of), Lent

Posted on February 22, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched Episodes 2-3 of Roots: The Next Generation.  In my posts on Roots and Roots: the Next Generation, I’ve distinguished between the African-Americans who sought to appease white society to make a place … Continue reading →

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Roots TNG 1, Baltzer on the Suffering Servant, Dahood on the Afterlife, Bold Gideon, Apuleius—Meet Melinda Gordon and Jonathan Smith

Posted on February 19, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched the first episode of Roots: The Next Generation.  On it, Chicken George’s son, Tom Harvey, tries to help African-Americans in the post-slavery South.  He supports a school for African-American children, but he … Continue reading →

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Jesse Owens Story, Righteous Sufferer, The Proof of the Pudding, Priestess of the Household, Evil

Posted on February 19, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1. For Black History Month today, I watched The Jesse Owens Story, a 1984 film that won a Primetime Emmy Award, and was nominated for other Emmys. Jesse Owens was an African-American athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics … Continue reading →

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Roots 5, Josiah the Nationalist, Immortal King, Old Traditions?, Plato’s Leap?

Posted on February 17, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched Episode 5 of Roots.  I want to correct some things that I said in my post, Roots 4, Song of Songs Fertility Ritual?, Dahood on Psalm 2, Athaliah the Heroine, Ammonius on … Continue reading →

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Roots 4, Song of Songs in a Fertility Ritual?, Dahood on Psalm 2, Athaliah the Heroine, Apollo

Posted on February 12, 2010 by jamesbradfordpate

1.  For Black History Month today, I watched the fourth episode of Roots.  On it, Kunta Kinte’s daughter, Kizzy, is separated from her parents and sold to Tom Moore (played by Chuck Connors, of Rifleman fame), who rapes her.  As … Continue reading →

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