'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.' but Henry Louis Gates Jr. is A Hotep
S6E007 - ‘Late Night with Seth WHO? Seth Meyers Shocked by Original Surname’
MEYERS: Really? El-Shabazz?
GATES: Yep.
MEYERS: That’s my family surname?
GATES: Do you have an issue with that, Seth?
MEYERS: No, no. I’m just—can I ask how?
GATES: Of course. Here’s a document. We traced your family history using super fancy technology and made this.
MEYERS: This is just a picture of a lion with dreadlocks captioned, “Like it or not, you from Africa”?
S3E005 - ‘Who Was Carol Burnett’s REAL Grandfather?’
BURNETT: Henry.
GATES: Carol.
BURNETT: My grandfather was not “Yakub”.
S5E021 - ‘Nope’s Jordan Peele Thinks Shit is Sweet’
PEELE: I’ll knock that fucking kufi off your head.
GATES: I’m sorry. I truly do hear them, though.
PEELE: What are you talking about? When did you become a medium? Just give me the DNA test.
GATES: They’re refusing me, Jordan.
PEELE: Okay—
GATES: —HUSH! They’re speaking to me..
A beat.
PEELE: (sighs) Okay. What are they saying?
GATES: (with eyes closed) They’re saying “don’t tell him about us”.
PEELE: Nigga—
GATES: Aht! They’re saying, “He can’t say that. Because...he’s...a…coon.”
S2E015 - ‘Jimmy Kimmel Can’t Believe His Family Responsible For the Destruction of the Black Man’
KIMMEL: ‘A Bronx Tale’ is not a documentary on the history of Italian and African-American relations, Henry!
GATES: Jimmy, I’m an old Black male hotep. You have no idea how many random fictional movies from the 90s I talk about like they’re documentaries.
S7E009 - ‘Is It Just Us or Is Erykah Badu Kinda Feeling Henry?’
GATES: Now, Erykah, do you know what the difference between an ignant booty and a lil’ pound cake booty is?
BADU: I am deeply uncomfortable, and confused as to how this relates to my family history.
GATES: Sweet Sista Supreme Badulla Oblongata, John Henrik Clarke once said that without our history, without knowing where we’ve been, we can’t know where we’re going. I want to talk about where we’re going.
BADU: Is this show not about the former?
GATES: (smiling) Not today.
An uncomfortable silence. One of the deepest old nigga stares you’ve ever seen in your life, before Badu rises and exits. Gates, looking in her direction, and then at the camera,
GATES: (still smiling) That’s the difference between an ignant booty and a pound cake booty.
S4E021 - ‘Henry Louis Gates Jr. Beats Wayne Brady’s Ass’
Henry Louis Gates Jr. beats Wayne Brady’s ass.
