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Oprah developing race riot miniseries starring Octavia Spencer
Entertainment Weekly ^ | April 3, 2014 | James Hibberd

Posted on 04/03/2014 3:48:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network is developing a two-part miniseries chronicling one of the ugliest and least-known chapters in U.S. history.

In Tulsa, Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer (The Help) plays a journalist who investigates the 1921 Oklahoma race riots, where an estimated 300 people were believed to have been murdered amid post-WWI racial tension surrounding segregation laws and the prosperous black community of Greenwood. According to a 2011 New York Times story on the subject, “The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private…an episode so brutal that this city, in a bout of collective amnesia that extended more than a half-century, simply chose to forget it ever happened.”

The announcement came as part of OWN’s Thursday upfront, revealing the net’s next slate of programming — which also included the network’s first scripted movie, My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story. The period biopic will star Toni Braxton....

(Excerpt) Read more at insidetv.ew.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; oprah; raceriot; racism
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I wonder the same thing. With all the problems in the black community, why is she trying to dredge up crap from the past instead of looking for ways to solve the problems that exist now and change the future? She sure has turned into a run of the mill race baiter.


61 posted on 04/03/2014 5:10:57 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will she be demanding the whites in the audience stand up and apologize for slavery at the end like she did during her episode on Jefferson and Hemings?


62 posted on 04/03/2014 5:14:59 PM PDT by bgill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OWN, huh?

Maybe twelve people will see it, but it’ll win every award they can throw at it.


63 posted on 04/03/2014 5:42:46 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No Guilt
No Apologies

64 posted on 04/03/2014 6:00:39 PM PDT by tomkat (unapologetically caucasian)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

An interesting parallel emerges:

The rise of both Obummer and Orca hinged on their magical ability to appeal to the widespread need among whites for highly visible black leaders seeming utterly devoid of anti-white grievances.

Yet beyond some threshold point of success the ability of both to keep the succes$ ball rolling instead depended on openly guilting whites as part of a Grievance Elite.

Remember Oprah’s famous claims of having suffered discrimination at the hands of a Geneva handbag sales girl?

Isn’t it funny, the way that came RIGHT BEFORE her release of, “The Butler”. Amazing, isn’t it..?

Funny how almost exactly THE SAME THING happened to her in Paris before the release of, “Beloved”...?

Sooooo intere$ting.


65 posted on 04/03/2014 6:13:22 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

throwing a little gasoline on the fire?
for what good?


66 posted on 04/03/2014 6:20:03 PM PDT by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Headline?

Will carry games live; 257 cities to date join league.
OWN Announces Formation of Knockout Game League

67 posted on 04/03/2014 8:56:16 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: gaijin

Same with Colin Powell.


68 posted on 04/03/2014 9:08:46 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's do a series of movies and TV shows about white people being beat up by black gang bangers. My guess is more than 300 white people have been beaten and KILLED in the last few years by black gangs.

Can we turn that into OUR religion of victimhood?

Hey Oprah - how about grinding the salt of the knockout game into a wound for the next 80 years? In the year 2094 we'll be making movies about white people being beat up by roving black gangs... celebrating 2014... Even if that type of crime stopped existing years before. Would YOU Oprah be charmed?

We 'get' the liberal message ... it's sick. (that said, I'm sorry democrats in the south did horrible things to black people... in today's world Democrats use the same tactics against the Tea Party... and we hear deafening silence from your side...

69 posted on 04/04/2014 6:17:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (For your psycho gunman, a military base is basically a grade-school in uniform. - Mark Steyn)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We can quibble over the numbers bu this did happen. But you know what? Do you know who did it? Organized it? DEMOCRATS and their terrorist arm, the KKK. This horrible incident is yet another example of how the Democrats have always been the Party of Race. Prior to the 1960s, they brutally supressed the black vote and won white votes with white supremacy and terrorizing blacks. Now they have flipped.

I am fine with Oaf-rah doing a miniseries on this. But I am sure she will whitewash the Democrat angle on it.


70 posted on 04/04/2014 6:30:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: mrsmel

It seems then, that the question is “who’s lynching who?”


71 posted on 04/04/2014 8:48:39 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
DEMOCRATS and their terrorist arm, the KKK.

Warren G. Harding was the President at the time, hardly a 'Rat. Tulsa's mayor was Republican T. D. Evan. The reality is that a radical Negro leftist, J.B. Stradford encouraged the riot. What the 'Rats and their terrorist soldiers did is well documented and is part of the legacy of the liberals.

But in the case of the Greenwood riots, it was the 1921 version of the knockout game of black on white violence. See my post, #19, in this thread for the truth about the riot...the unvarnished truth brushed aside by Orpha and the state-run, drive-by, lamestream media.

72 posted on 04/04/2014 6:34:08 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Racists are obsessed with race.


73 posted on 04/04/2014 6:34:51 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: mrsmel

That’s just not true. The disparity is pretty large (about 8,500 whites are killed by blacks each year, compared to around 4,500 blacks killed by whites), but not nearly as large as the disparity you suggest. made up stats like the one you posted just make you look foolish.


74 posted on 04/04/2014 7:55:51 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
That’s just not true. The disparity is pretty large (about 8,500 whites are killed by blacks each year, compared to around 4,500 blacks killed by whites), but not nearly as large as the disparity you suggest. made up stats like the one you posted just make you look foolish.

Not doubting your round numbers, but do you have a link to those stats.
75 posted on 04/04/2014 8:00:06 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/interracial-murder-on-the-rise


76 posted on 04/04/2014 11:20:19 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
while white-on-black slayings dropped from 4,745 to 4,380.

The sources are not linked. What are the percentages of Hispanic gang violence on black in those numbers? This is well documented in Los Angeles, Kansas City and Chicago. It is glossed over by many news organizations as white on black crime. Remember the white Hispanic? That is part of the occupation media racial template.
77 posted on 04/04/2014 11:35:49 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I looked for a source for this factoid which I have seen in various places, and this is what I can find right now without more time to check—

http://dailykenn.blogspot.com/2013/10/more-whites-killed-by-blacks-in-8-years.html

It’s still an amazing figure, and one completely swept under the rug in this so-called “oppression of black men”, when the opposite is the truth.

The rape statistics are even more disparate.


78 posted on 04/05/2014 4:16:15 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
about 8,500 whites are killed by blacks each year, compared to around 4,500 blacks killed by whites

Incorrect. FBI crime stats show that about 50% of ALL crime victims are black, and 91-92% of those, perennially, are murdered by black attackers, usually YBM's being murdered by other YBM's.

Of the 50% of non-black murder victims, (Hispanic and white being lumped together, since treating "Hispanic" as an ethnos presents its own problems: most of the Hispanic residents of Miami's Alapattah district are black Cubans), about half are killed by other non-blacks, 24% by blacks, and 25% by "unknown": the FBI's stratagem, in the 90's, for dodging the fact that the "unknown" murderers were black (this was during the Clinton Administration, mind).

In the 90's, 6000 non-blacks per year were being murdered by blacks. But Cynthia McKinney grieved openly in the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation over the 4700 blacks lynched from 1866 to 1962.

79 posted on 08/20/2014 3:50:50 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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