Haley claimed he was descended from Kinte, though this familial link has been criticised by many professional historians and at least one genealogist as highly improbable (see D. Wright's The World And A Very Small Place).
Haley je tvrdio da potječe od Kinte, iako su njegove tvrdnje kritizirali profesionalni povjesničari i barem jedan genealog kao nevjerodostojne (v. D. Wright's, The World and A Very Small Place).