We’d just finished watching two of Deborah’s favorite movies back-to-back: Roots and the animated movie Spirit, about a wild horse who’s captured by the U.S. Army. She wanted us to watch them together so we could see the similarities between the two—Spirit fought for his freedom just as Kunta Kinte did in Roots, she said. “People was always tryin to keep them down and stop them from doing what they want just like people always doin with me and the story about my mother,” she said.
