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....

[CondorFlight]

My grandfather was a hero during that riot, using his trucks to help rescue blacks caught on the wrong side of town, and transport them to safety. He had to do this without letting the white rioters know.

I doubt somehow that the movie will cover that aspect of things (ie, it will probably be the usual PC mix: there are no good whites.)

[MeshugeMikey]

"Also in the works: Belief, a seven-part docu-series “exploring humankind’s ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves.” The show will explore various belief systems around the world.

All given equal "respect" no doubt. and presented for the purpose of promoting Paganism.

the next extravganza will doubtless be "Jihad...Yours and Mine". DIversity....rules...

[FrdmLvr]

If you look up “Race Pimp” in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Oprah.

[mrsmel]

The great black conservative hope Colin Powell did no less, but we just keep looking for our own and ignoring the missing pieces of the conservative whole when looking for our own “token minority conservative” as answer to the left (like ignoring Allen West’s Pigford redistribution scam vote).

[mrsmel]

Even before civil rights, blacks, according to their proportion of population, still had higher out-of-wedlock rates than whites, and higher crime rates.

[devolve]

- 75% are convicted felons sez the FBI - hoW ‘bout that “CHUNKY STYLE”?

[CondorFlight]

“Even before civil rights, blacks, according to their proportion of population, still had higher out-of-wedlock rates than whites, and higher crime rates”

Actually, going back farther, blacks actually had lower rates of crime and out-of-wedlock births than some ethnic whites in the US. And many of those blacks had, themselves been slaves in their youth.

But surprisingly, they didn’t let themselves become obsessed with bitterness, didn’t turn to drugs, didn’t blame the rest of society for their bad start in life, and didn’t break up the family unit.

That was left for the spoiled children of the ‘60s.

[kearnyirish2]

Nice; thanks for clarifying!

[kearnyirish2]

“More whites are murdered by blacks now, every year, than blacks were murdered by whites in the entire previous history of the nation.”

I can believe that; in my area they simply stopped reporting it.

[Boogieman]

The revisionism on “race riots” in America has been going on for a long time. When I was in college many moons ago, I found an old book in the library chronicling race riots in America, that was written back in the 80s, before the PC rot had set in. I read it, and much to my surprise, it told a much different story from what you see in any modern media about race riots, lynching and the like.

First, I learned from the book that race riots didn’t just start in the 60s with the civil rights movement. They were happening throughout the 20th century, and were maybe more prevalent (by number of incidents if not scale) in the 20s and 30s than they were in the 60s. Also, I learned that the race riots actually happened more often in the Northern cities than they did in the South. The third thing I learned was that the blacks were out in force attacking white neighborhoods just as much as whites were getting together and attacking black neighborhoods.

The pattern seemed to be that one person or small group of one race would get hurt or murdered in the other race’s neighborhood, and this would trigger vigilantes going into that neighborhood to seek revenge. So, the igniting incidents were about the same, whether whites or blacks started the conflict, and the only real difference was in the tactics of the vigilantes. Blacks would rush into a neighborhood in large groups on foot, or on public transit, while whites would get in their cars in small groups and drive over to the other neighborhood. I believe whites were also more likely to use firearms, probably because, like the cars, they just had more of them than blacks did.

[Nepeta]

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.

Wasn't it a black mayor of Philadelphia who ordered the bombing of a whole residential block in that city?

[rabidralph]

Who knows? Maybe they’ll have to explain how all those black people achieved middle class status without government help.

[re_nortex]

Had blacks looked up to good men such as Booker T. Washington instead of race radicals such as W.E.B. Du Bois, the unending attacks on whites by racist blacks would surely be diminished, if not non-existent.

Even "Reverend" "Doctor" Martin (not his real name) Luther King fathered who knows how many children out of wedlock. Those who hold MLK in esteem (sadly even some here on FR) ought to separate the myth from the reality -- much like the topic of this thread regarding the lies that Orpha will push concerning the Greenwood riots. The reality of ol' Mikey King is that he was in Memphis 46 years ago this week, not to preach the Gospel but to show his solidarity with union thugs along with his equally fraudulent pal, Jesse Jackson.

[nascarnation]

True, but going from 19 to 78% is a national tragedy.
There is no way a society can function like that.

[driftless2]

How do you know your “witness” is telling the truth? I’ve read articles about the riot, but nobody has yet determined how many people were actually killed. The old guy’s statements sound like the ones made after Hurricane Katrina where people swore the dikes were dynamited by Bush and Cheney. Sorry, we’ll need more data than the “testimony” of a single person who admitted he didn’t see a lot of the purported violence.

[re_nortex]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3071450/posts

[yarddog]

I have no idea if he was telling the truth or not but I am pretty sure he was there.

I have no idea what a turpentine bomb is either, maybe something they made up but that was the story going around. He was not btw trying to make it look like the Blacks were in the right, just saying how much killing was going on.

[windsorknot]

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. -—Oprah Winfrey

[Dagnabitt]

Interracial violence today is overwhelmingly committed by blacks. So blacks and self-hating leftist whites are forced to look back in history to support their narrative of black victimhood.

[driftless2]

I’m not saying he wasn’t there, but you said he didn’t go in the city until most of the violence was finished. He might be right about certain things, but the testimony of a single person cannot be held up as the final truth about the whole event. It would be the same thing if it was a white person you had talked to. The total amount killed might have approached the 300 number, but some sides have an interest in twisting the truth for obvious reasons. Maybe some day an unbiased historian will write a conclusive chapter.