Thread by @jbouie

this is an incredible feature which also has me thinking about how interesting it is that the Tulsa massacre has gone from fairly obscure to basically mainstream knowledge in a few short years nytimes.com/interactive/20…

is it just the impact of HBO’s Watchmen?

i think this is right. a new generation of history-informed black journalists + the work of activists and historians = greater public awareness that then coalesces into the kind of popular presentation you saw on that show.

https://twitter.com/ugarles/status/1397202356610154498

i just know that i have written about Tulsa and other similar events in the past and the level of reader familiarity with the country’s history of racial pogroms was much lower even 8 or 9 years ago

speaking of the movie ROSEWOOD, i recently rewatched it and i think had it been released in 2019 it would have been a smash blockbuster. it hit at the wrong moment, i think

https://twitter.com/jrkinsella/status/1397205080554840066

yeah, i think the term works because it captures the extent to which this stuff was often done with the tacit approval of local and state authorities

https://twitter.com/jessicabasic2/status/1397205846875152388

also, a focus on collective racial violence helps frame an understanding of racism as tied to questions of labor and capital.

anyway i’m just thinking out loud now! if any part of this makes you mad just remember that these are the half-formed thoughts of someone currently cradling a one-month-old