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As the centuries go on. >> i will go to my grave believing that "roots" is america's story. it's not just black-america's story. >> we might have come over in the bottom of the ship. but we, all, came over on ships. >> your name means stay put but it don't mean stay a slave. >> as a 19-year-old kid, you know, "roots" was my first job. >> swer' not children. we are very close to being men. >> what's your name? >> kun that. kun kunta kinta. the adult was a dream role. >> it was really genius to cast all of america's favorite-television dads in the roles of the white slave owners and the villains...

Around the announcement was soured as his fellow officers and even the mayor started taunting him with racially insensitive jokes. according to a federal civil rights lawsuit his lawyer filed last month, his superior started calling him kunta as in kun kunta kinta from the roots cycle. for christmas, a sergeant gave him a black santa claus doll with 18% written on its beard. brown is now suing hastings for a million and a half dollars, but the city attorney argues that sergeant brown himself has a history of racist comments about black people, and began the joking with wise cracks about his lo...