"‘Watchmen’ revived it. But the history of the 1921" Topic

… Tulsa race massacre was nearly lost.

"The explosive opening in the first episode of HBO's "Watchmen," with citizens of a black Tulsa, Okla., neighborhood being gunned down by white vigilantes, black businesses deliberately burned and even aerial attacks, has brought new attention to the nearly buried history of what the Oklahoma Historical Society calls "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history."

Though it looked like something made up for the series inspired by Alan Moore's original "Watchmen" stories for DC Comics, the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was an all too real incident that decimated 35 city blocks, including the business district of Tulsa's Greenwood community, which Booker T. Washington once called the "Black Wall Street of America." The official death toll was 36, but more recent estimates say that as many as 300 may have been killed; 800 were treated for injuries and more than 6,000 black citizens were interned at the city's convention hall and fairgrounds for up to eight days. A search for mass graves has been undertaken in recent years…."
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Err… Most of the "history" is from propaganda written 15-20 years after the incident.

This is all just a retread of that propaganda for the upcoming US election.

A more careful reading of the actual Army, Police, and News reporting of the event paint a very different story.

This is just Hollywood pushing an agenda…

I don't watch TV or many movies anymore because of it.

Joe Collins

Joe, please stick to microarmor TO&Es. In fact, I implore you to bring back that old site of yours, it was amazing.

Whitewashing American history is not your forte, especially in the face of overwhelming historical evidence of white supremacist actions, which, while inconvenient to your viewpoint, is never the less ample.

That isn't me… it is my antipodean brother from another mother.

As to the riots. Do your homework… not wikipedia.
Read the actual reports. Study when the myths were created.

This was an ugly event… and sadly based on an incident where nothing happened. The genesis of this was a black fellow probably making a mild pass at a white woman that he was friends with. She panicked. He panicked at her panicking… Things flew badly out of hand.

He evidently apologized and she never pressed charges. The police thought it a simple misunderstanding between to young people… which it was.

A 170 or so people, both black and white died over nothing.
Sad really… but it is more sad to see it used to generate further hate.

Joe Collins

Joe Collins…thank you for your 2nd (and much more reasonable) posting on this subject.

Right… Kristallnacht 1938 and St. Bartholomew's Day 1572 also had nothing to do with the pervasive bigotry (of a kind exemplified by the racist ideas about prohibitions on people of different skin colors looking at each other) that led to the decimation of a successful a minority community.

Who's peddling revisionist history now?