Oprah developing race riot miniseries starring Octavia Spencer

Entertainment Weekly ^ | April 3, 2014 | James Hibberd

[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....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pick that scab!

[x]

All because she pooped in that pie ...

[1010RD]

The Democrats need all the help they can get. Why would black voters even come out to vote this fall?

[Old Yeller]

She should get the cameras rolling for the riots coming up.

[Gen.Blather]

I am so tired of being called racist. I’m really getting angry.

[2ndDivisionVet]

BINGO!

[kearnyirish2]

“estimated 300 people were believed”

Nothing says “myth” like “estimated” and “believed”. I know there was an incident back then, and I believe people might have been killed in it, but until they have something more concrete I’m going to file this with “revisionist nonsense to justify reparations”. Too many people believe hundreds of thousands of blacks were lynched in the South while hundreds of thousands of their churches were burned; this nonsense is tiresome...

[Salvey]

Pick that scab!

race race race race, race race race race.

[ansel12]

Almost 50 years of Black pride and black oppression/victim movies and TV have killed enough innocent people, we need to stop black violence, not continue feeding passions of revenge and blood.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Reparations?” What were almost a million men killed in the civil war, unknown number wounded, maimed and stricken mentally ill and the TRILLIONS of dollars spent just since 1965?

[colorado tanker]

I knew about this. But I’m so old they actually taught history when I was in school.

[God luvs America]

when will oprah do a series on the race riots and brutal racism inflicted on blacks in liberal boston, mass???

[tanknetter]

What was that fight where returning WWII GIs overthrew their local government through armed force? Battle of Athens (GA), think?

THAT would make a great movie. IMHO.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Has Oprah found a long lost copy of an editorial Richard Lloyd Jones wrote in his newspaper THE TULSA TRIBUNE? All copies have disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lloyd_Jones

[sargon]

What was that fight where returning WWII GIs overthrew their local government through armed force? Battle of Athens (GA), think?

That was in Tennessee, I believe...

[sheik yerbouty]

Why doesn’t the race racketeering 0prah Khazer do one on the LA riots, or Miami in 1980, or Detroit and Newark in 1967?

[2ndDivisionVet]

And will NEVER be made by a major studio.

[mrsmel]

What about the black race riots, mob attacks, knockout "games", polar bear hunting, and pack attacks occurring strictly on non-blacks all over the country now? When do we even get some msm mews about the truth of that, much less a mini-series?

[re_nortex]

There are so many lies about the May 1921 race riot in Tulsa promulgated by the leftist lamestream media. The facts are quote different than what "Orpha the Whale" will present.

Hundreds were killed during the mayhem fueled by J.B. Stradford, a Negro radical who learned his anti-white bigotry while in Canada. The trigger for the May 1921 spree of murder and destruction was an assault on a white 17-year orphan, Sarah Page, by a thug, "Diamond Dick" Rowland.

A swarm of well-armed black thugs stormed central Tulsa and shot a white onlooker. That touched off days of bedlam. Even black apologist W.E.B. DuBois (a communist activist and co-founder of the NAACP) admitted that it was blacks from the Greenwood neighborhood that began the riot. Mr. Beyrl Ford, noted Tulsa historian, has shattered the liberal-produced myths, embraced by blacks, about the rioting and the reaction. One debunked claim was that airplanes of that era dropped "bombs" on a black neighborhood in north Tulsa. That never happened, Orpha! The planes were simply observational to determine the extent of the damage.

At the time of the riot, Republican T. D. Evans was the city's mayor and, of course, Warren Harding was President. So even with good governance at the time, well, thugs will be thugs, even going back to the first quarter of the 20th Century.

As you may surmise, I've studied this extensively, carefully researching the material of the day and visiting the Greenwood Cultural Center, even engaging the staff in dialog, as clearly biased as they were.

[Dilbert San Diego]

or what about the riots which struck many cities after Martin Luther King was killed? why not a movie about other riots??????