S E247: Best of: Watchmen Roundtable: Part 1

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Karen talks about the powerful themes of race, God and humanity in HBO’s Watchmen with Drew McCaskill, Dele Atanda and Kareem Graves. This is part two of their discussion.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Those of you who have not seen Watchmen, it's okay because we're not really having a conversation about a TV show.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	This is a conversation about legacy. This is a conversation about power.
0:21.0	This is a conversation about what representation looks like when people have the
0:24.0	the knowledge and a wherewithal to actually go ahead and do truth in film because
0:29.3	film powerful is a powerful medium that's why birth of a nation to this day
0:33.9	is considered one of the greatest films of all time,
0:35.7	not because of the cinematic beauty of it,
0:37.7	but because of the messaging
0:39.4	and how it has sustained itself over a century, that message of DW Griffith.
0:44.3	Yeah. Powerful.
0:46.3	So that's why we fight and do the hashtags Oscar so white and things like that because
0:50.6	representation is important and watchmen is important but I just want to take
0:53.7	not even a detour. There's a story circulating today that they found a mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1:00.3	Initially when this massacre happened they calculated that 36 people were killed
1:06.4	right so because people were challenging me when we first started talking
1:09.6	about it I was like thousands of people lost their life now it's only 36 26
1:12.4	26 blacks 10 whites and
1:14.4	then they updated it right and this happened May 31st to do it was a two day period of
1:18.3	so think about this two days of decimation fire bombing bombing, government sanction, running rock. The opening scene of
1:25.6	watchmen was probably light, like we couldn't even imagine. What I do know is that all of the 35 square blocks
1:35.2	were destroyed.
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