Rosanne Katon Walden

Wow! Rege Jean Page should have won an Emmy for his amazing performance. This version went back to the landmark book and made excellent use of the improved access to factual information on the lives of Africans brought to the U.S. Their intergenerational enslavement by whites and their role in the building of the economic structure American democracy that still echos today. Although this was filmed before the nightmarish Trump Administration and its pandering to a segment of modern day white supremacy lunatics waving confederate flags, this telling of African-American Alex Hayley's family's saga explains that bigotry against those who are not of the "white construct" is embedded in the DNA of American history. The U.S. tolerance racism is it's "Scar of shame".