Ten years ago history was made in the broadcast of a television show. The show was Roots. As you may remember, Roots was a documentary of one man's search for his ancestry. Black author, Alex Haley's hunger to know his identity led him to record his own roots, his own heritage, first on paper, then on the screen. And the significance of this T.V. show? This mini-series attracted more viewers than any other television program in history. With eighty-five million viewers, this story of the black man's struggle in the Old South easily surpassed the former record-holder for an audience, a show which, ironically enough, portrayed the white man's supremacy in the Old South - the famous movie Gone With The Wind.

Of course, the audience record set by Alex Haley's story is not the greatest signifi…