It's been almost 100 years since the Tulsa massacre happened and since then there's been three movies about it -- The Tulsa Lynching of 1921 (2000, Michael Wilkerson), Before They Die (2008, Reggie Turner), and Hate Crimes in the Heartland (2014 Rachel Lyon and Bavand Karim)
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None of these movies won an Emmy or an Oscar The third one, Hate Crimes in the Heartland, did get the Paul Robeson Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Newark Black Film Festival, and hit Netflix in 2016
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(The first one was released on Cinemax in 2000 -- back then, premium cable was not wide release and would not be seen by most people) This topic didn't get traction until very recently -- hell, that's what the title of the first two movies refers to, the fact that no one cared
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It's a fucking stupid flex to try to pull -- the imaginary good ol' days when Americans were mature grownups who dutifully watched straight historical dramatizations about Tulsa with no narrative layered on top of it DIDN'T EXIST
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You can hate Watchmen for any number of reasons but you HAVE TO give it credit for the fact that it taught Americans what happened in Tulsa BECAUSE IT IS A FACT There is no earlier, more staid and sober popularization of Tulsa that it replaced, you made that up in your head
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I'm so fucking sick of this kind of smug superior douchebag take from the left, playing at being Adorno and talking about how "late capitalism has rotted people's brains", a whole conservative Harold Bloom take with a Marxist coat of paint
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Most people didn't even know it happened before Watchmen, for that matter
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Hell some people watching Watchmen even thought it was a fictional event in the Watchmen universe, until they went online and saw either on social media or through their own research that it was real.
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I'm now trying to qualify how many Emmy shows fit the criteria of winning based on historical dramatization of other events, not even trying to limit the scope of subject by anything.
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What in the fresh hell is he talking about. Did the West Wing win on the back of a 9/11 Episode?
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