In a related story...i don't know if this got a lot of press, but about 4 years ago....some young Black man in the deep south allowed himself to be photographed in his high school yearbook with a noose around his neck...and his white girlfriend holding the rope.......

true story......

When the controversy broke..his comments were along the lines of "man, that stuff y'all are talking about happened in the "Roots" days"


gonna find a link