interesting that this topic came up. for those of you who are Sci-Fi fans, the recent adaptation of "Watchmen" was based on this event. "Watchmen" was originally a graphic novel (comic book) by some weird English dude named Alan Moore. it was made into a movie a few years back. didn't do well .. because it's .. weird. very weird. how about Richard Milhous Nixon .. president for life weird? THAT'S WEIRD.
i don't think the comic or the movie had anything to do with the Tulsa riots but the HBO show did, it was the basis of the show and the resulting events afterward. in the show which just wrapped up, Nixon could run unlimited times and was president until he died when he was succeeded by .. Gerry Ford. who then lost his re-election to .. Robert Redford. yeah .. THAT Robert Redford. who says an actor can't be president?? bahhaahaaaa
there is also a character called Dr. Manhattan .. who is so powerful he can bitchslap Superman back to Krypton. with me so far??
this is Dr. Manhattan
yes he's blue .. and naked except they can't do that in comics unless they want it x-rated. so they gave him snazzy art deco loincloth. bhahhaaaaaa
WEIRD SHIT
here's some background ..
the original comic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen
the movie ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(film)
the TV series ..
WEIRD SHIT!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(TV_series)
Synopsis
Watchmen takes place 34 years after the events of
the comic series. Set in the comic's
alternate history of the 20th century,
vigilantes, once seen as heroes, have been outlawed due to their violent methods. In 1985, Adrian Veidt, formerly known as the vigilante
Ozymandias, created a fake attack on
New York City by a
squid-like alien that resulted in millions within New York being killed, coercing nations to work together against a common threat and to avert a
nuclear holocaust. Veidt's actions disgusted his former companions, with
Rorschach planning to tell the world of Veidt's misdeeds before he is vaporized by
Doctor Manhattan, who subsequently left the planet, unaware Rorschach had sent his journal to be published beforehand.
The show takes place in 2019
Tulsa, Oklahoma. A
white supremacist group, the Seventh Kavalry, inspired by Rorschach's writings and masked image, wage violent war against minorities and the police that enforce special
reparations for victims of racial injustice. On Christmas Eve 2016, during an event that came to be known as the "White Night", the Kavalry attacked the homes of 40 Tulsa police officers.
[2] Of those who survived, only two stayed with the force: Detective Angela Abar and Chief Judd Crawford.
[3] As the police force was rebuilt, laws were passed that required police to not disclose their profession and to protect their identities while on the job by wearing masks, which includes allowing for costumed police officers.
[4]
episode 1 ..
During Tulsa's
Black Wall Street massacre in 1921, a black child loses his parents O.B. and Ruth in the chaos and escorts an orphaned baby to safety. Ninety-eight years later, masked Officer Charlie Sutton is hospitalized after being shot by a member of the Seventh Kavalry. Chief Judd Crawford calls for retaliation to hunt down the shooter. Angela Abar hears of the shooting and hunts down a suspect under her secret persona, Sister Night. With help from another costumed police officer, Wade Tillman/Looking Glass, Angela elicits the shooter's location at a cattle ranch used by the Kavalry. Angela, Judd and other officers hunt them down, instigating a shootout that results in the deaths of all Kavalry members present, including the shooter. Sometime after the shootout, Judd runs over a spike strip while driving to the hospital to visit Sutton. Angela receives a call from someone who instructs her to find something at a countryside tree. She heads to the location, where she finds an elderly black man in a wheelchair below a hanged Judd. Meanwhile, an old lord living at an unspecified country estate writes a play called
The Watchmaker's Son and celebrates an "anniversary" with his two servants.
WEIRD SHIT!!!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
Alan Moore .. weird English dude and Ozzy Osbourne's cousin (no not really) bahhaaaa
did i mention the WEIRD squid-like alien??? that was FAKE???
Tulsa race riots
