Didn't have the power of the first series, but still a very pertinent account. Somebody here responded to the first series by calling it "lies." Poetic license is used in every historical drama to fill in the blanks to make a story. Let's just say there's probably more truth the Roots saga than Braveheart which is completely ahistorical. Roots' power drew some harsh reactions from defensive whites in the 1970s. My mother was a teacher in San Francisco, with a crusty old white principal in charge of her school. During the week that Roots was shown, a fight broke out between a white kid and a black kid. It wasn't the first nor last, and I doubt either kid was watching Roots. But that didn't stop this principal from yelling in the staff room, "It's that damned Roots I tell you!! It's stirring up crap!" I suppose if there had been a fight between two white kids and a series about WWII was showing, the series would have been at fault as well? The kids were probably fighting over who got to be first in line for lunch.