Ep. 111 - The Watchmen

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

HBO's new show "The Watchmen" depicts the early 1920s in Tulsa, OK in the time of the Tulsa Race Riots. The release of the Watchman marks the first time in a century that the Black Wall Street Massacre of 1921 is accurately portrayed in mainstream media. On today's episode, Shaun digs into the significance of this show, and breaks down why it took 98 years to tell the truth about our own history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Last night on HBO, they debuted a brand new television series called The Watchman.
0:40.0	And the season premiere last night, both shocked and educated the hell out of some people.
0:47.0	The Watchman is based on a comic book of the same name, and typically takes place in a bleak alternate reality, a dystopian future.
0:57.0	And on the season premiere, it showed something horrible.
1:01.0	It showed the homes of nearly 10,000 African Americans being set ablaze.
1:07.1	It showed hundreds of black-owned businesses being destroyed, targeted, and destroyed.
1:13.0	It showed hundreds of African Americans being shot and killed by white mobs.
1:20.0	And many white viewers last night were appalled by this horrible alternate reality.
1:27.0	Until they learned that what the Watchmen showed last night was not an alternate reality. It was the
1:34.8	1921 Tulsa race massacre. They started the show not with a fictional
1:41.7	account of the United States, but with its deadliest mass shooting,
1:47.0	its deadliest hate crime in modern American history.
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