“We Would Love To Forget, I Think”: LeVar Burton On The Impact Of Roots

“We would love to forget, I think. We would love to go back to the fairy tale, to the fantasy of Tara. But it’s too easy to try and erase the sins of the past and claim, ‘That wasn’t me.’ … I’ve heard disquieting chatter on both sides of the color line. Why do we have to revisit this again? Well, we have to revisit this again because all of us have forgotten!”