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this is a movie review of the 24th.
In 'The 24th,' Police Brutality and Unrest, 103 Years Ago
“The 24th" dramatizes one of the bloodiest and most tragic chapters in Jim Crow America history, the Houston Riot.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content Aug. 17, 2020, at 1:19 p.m.
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The sole photograph related to the Houston Riot of 1917 shows 64 Black soldiers sitting with arms folded and legs crossed behind a rope. Their sheer number, in a courtroom otherwise populated by white men, suggests they’re part of the audience but they’re not. They’re the defendants in what’s considered the largest murder trial in American history.
When the writer-director Kevin Willmott first came upon the photo 30 years ago, he was mystified by it. What was the story behind it? And how had he never heard of the Houston Riot before?
That led, ultimately, to “The 24th, ” Willmott’s dramatization of one of the bloodiest and most tragic chapters in the dark history of Jim Crow America.
Shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, 156 soldiers in an all-Black regiment, the 24th, were stationed near Houston. After beatings and harassment by locals and police officers -- including the dragging of a Black woman from her home that led to an attack and the arrest of a Black soldier -- the infantrymen mutinied and marched on Houston. Some 21 died in the violence including 11 civilians. After the trial, 19 of the soldiers were hung; 41 were sentenced to life imprisonment.
In a time of reckoning for police brutality, “The 24th” reverberates with injustices past and present. By stretching back more than 100 years, it vividly captures an early example of unrest unleashed by racist policing. Such incidents have typically gone unmentioned in history books. Willmott calls it “a hidden history.”
“Black people have been complaining, shouting, screaming, crying about police abuse for a long, long, long time,” Willmott said in a recent interview. “The movie is really an indictment for how long this problem has existed in the country.”
“The 24th” had originally been slated to premiere in March at SXSW before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the festival. But it’s one of the few films that have managed to find a path forward nevertheless. On Friday, Vertical Entertainment will release it on-demand and in digital rental, two days before the anniversary of the Houston Riot, also called the Camp Logan Mutiny.
Willmott is best known as Spike Lee’s recent co-writer. He helped pen “Chi-Raq,” “BlacKkKlansman” and their recent Netflix release, “Da 5 Bloods.” He also teaches film at the University of Kansas; the star and co-writer of “The 24th,” Trai Byers (“Empire”), was once Willmott’s screenwriting student.
While Willmott was working on “BlacKkKlansman” -- which won him and Lee an Oscar -- he suggested Byers look over the script. Together, they believed the film had the power to educate.
“It’s history. That was our main point. This is history. History that hasn’t been taught,” Byers said. “In order to meet these moments, we need that history, we need that point of reference. Until we know where we’ve been, how can we know who we are?”
While the horrors of slavery have sometimes been depicted in film, the in-between decades of Jim Crow have more seldom been shown. That could be changing. The opening of HBO’s “Watchmen,” set amid the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 -- in which white mobs leveled 35 square blocks of the wealthy Black Oklahoma community known as “Black Wall Street” -- exposed many to a history they knew little about.
“People need to know about the period after slavery. Slavery is the real sin of American life, but it didn’t end after slavery,” says Willmott. “That period after slavery, from the 1880s to the 1930s is for African Americans literally almost a Holocaust. That part of our history was really just erased from history books. Black people don’t know it, white people don’t know it. The fact that you can wipe out a whole black section of town in Tulsa -- that’s like a 9/11 for Black people -- and no one knows about it.”
With Lee, Willmott has been digging into less well-known periods of African American history, tugging at the roots of white supremacy ("BlacKkKlansman") and the nature of patriotism for Black Americans ("Da Five Bloods"). More often than not, they’re finding their films even more relevant than they expected.
“My Brother Kevin Willmott Has The Directing And Writing Skills That Show Us The Stories That Need To Be Seen And Heard,” Lee said in an email.
The obvious timeliness of “The 24th” was one reason its makers wanted it to come out this summer, even if movie theaters are largely closed due to the coronavirus. Descendants of three of the hanged men from the Houston Riot — William Nesbit, Thomas Coleman Hawkins and Jesse Ball Moore — recently petitioned the White House for posthumous pardons.
“It’s almost like we’re dealing with the George Floyds, the Breonna Taylors, the Ahmaud Arberys from a fresh take. But it’s not a fresh take. There’s so many tales of what happens when you push a man too far, push a group of people too far," says Byers. “What we’re hoping is that this film sparks the curiosity of the nation to find other stories.”
Getting “The 24th” made 30 years ago, Willmott says, was unfathomable. It wasn’t easy in 2019 either. The filmmakers didn’t find a home with a major studio or a streaming company but got it made with Jordan Fudge and the socially minded media fund New Slate Ventures. Since then, Willmott believes the death of George Floyd has “changed everything,” including the movie industry. Floyd grew up in Houston.
“I have a saying,” says Willmott. “We don’t own history, history owns us.”
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- dilbert firestorm
- 08-30-2020, 03:35 AM
- dilbert firestorm
- 08-30-2020, 03:43 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_riot_of_1917
never heard of this incident. i was shocked.
execution scene from alex haley's Roots: Next Generation
never heard of this incident. i was shocked.
execution scene from alex haley's Roots: Next Generation
- dilbert firestorm
- 08-30-2020, 03:58 AM
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/s...221379955.html
Buffalo Soldiers hanged after 1917 race riot should be pardoned, advocates say
By Mitch Mitchell
November 19, 2018 08:00 AM
In 1917, 118 black soldiers were charged with murder, mutiny, aggravated assault and disobeying orders after a race riot in Houston. Nineteen of the soldiers were eventually hanged.
More than 100 years later, Priscilla Graham, a Houston author and historian, is among those seeking to have all the soldiers pardoned on the basis that their arrests and trials were unjust.
Graham has written to President Trump and before him President Obama asking for the pardons but has yet to receive a reply from the White House.
Actor James McEachin, the author of a fictionalized account of the trial of the soldiers titled, “Farewell to the Mockingbirds,” said he has tried to bring attention to the injustices that followed the riot and is also pushing the government to pardon those who were executed.
McEachin served in the 24th Infantry Regiment, the same Army unit in which the executed men served. They are known as Buffalo Soldiers. McEachin said he cannot let go of what he believes is a calling to right a wrong.
“I’ve tried my darnedest to get this story out,” McEachin said. “Getting this pardon will not be an easy fight. I’m kind of ashamed of myself. I should have started this movement a long time ago.”
The Aug. 23, 1917, race riot resulted in the deaths of at least 15 whites and four black soldiers and the subsequent jailing of more than 100 others. It was triggered by the rough arrest of a black woman.
The riot, also referred to as the Camp Logan Mutiny, is believed to be the only racial insurrection in the United States in which the white death toll exceeded the number of blacks who died. The largest court-martial in U.S. history followed the unrest, historians say.
Graham says the investigation that preceded the trial and the trial itself were shams, tainted with the same Jim Crow attitudes that triggered the unrest. For example, soldiers who didn’t sign the duty roll, missed roll call or were found to be off base during the night of the riots were presumed to be rioting and summarily arrested, according to Graham and other historians.
“There was no investigation,” Graham said. “Some of those who were found guilty probably were. But there was no way to tell which people actually fired the bullets that killed the people who died. There were soldiers who were hung who maintained until the end that they were not involved in the riot.”
Soldiers wrote letters home to their parents and friends, saying they had been sentenced to hang and vowed that they were not involved, Graham said. But it didn’t matter, she said.
“A lot of the soldiers just got caught up because of the color of their skin and because they weren’t accounted for,” Graham said. “You can’t just look at the testimony and you can’t believe the newspaper accounts. You have to look beyond those.”
1 lawyer for 118 defendants
The defense attorney who represented the soldiers at the courts-martial, Maj. Harry S. Grier, taught law at the U.S. Military Academy but had no trial experience and was not a lawyer, Graham and other historians say. The black soldiers were charged with murder and mutiny and faced a punishment up to death.
Three separate courts-martial were held, and Grier had two weeks to prepare for the initial proceeding on Nov. 1, 1917, Graham has written.
“One lawyer presented the cases for 118 soldiers,” Graham said.
She said the convictions were based on the testimony of the white officers, white civilians and seven soldiers who received immunity from prosecution because they agreed to testify against their fellow troops.
Graham said that when there was contradictory testimony, such as other soldiers testifying that an accused soldier was nowhere near the rioting, the court chose to believe the testimony that incriminated the black soldiers.
“You’ve got to understand racism was strong during this time and was the driving force behind this whole incident,” she said.
The initial execution of 13 men was carried out on Dec. 11, 1917 — at dawn, without public notice and without any opportunity to appeal the verdict, the actor McEachin said.
The U.S. Army created a rule on Jan. 17, 1918, that no enlisted personnel could be executed without first having the trial records examined by a judge advocate general, according to military records.
The army executed six additional Buffalo Soldiers in connection with the riots after the new judicial review process was established. Ten soldiers who were sentenced to death during two courts-martial had their death sentences commuted to life in prison by President Woodrow Wilson.
“They did not care whether the men were guilty or not guilty,” Graham said. “The only thing they cared about was public opinion.”
How the riot happened
The Buffalo Soldiers sprang from all-black regiments that were created during the Civil War. Some of the black soldiers had served in the Philippines, in Cuba and during the Spanish-American War, and regarded themselves as combat troops.
In the summer of 1917, about 650 Buffalo Soldiers and their white officers from the Third Batallion, 24th Infantry Regiment were assigned to guard Camp Logan, a training facility being constructed in Houston near the entrance to the current Memorial Park, just west of the city center in the Fourth Ward.
The assignment put the black soldiers in direct and often conflict-laden contact with white civilians and police officers, historians say.
On Aug. 23, 1917, two white Houston patrol officers chasing a gambling suspect barged into a Fourth Ward home and arrested a black woman they accused of hiding the suspect, according to multiple accounts.
The scantily clad woman screamed after being hit in the face and was hauled from her home by patrolmen Lee Sparks and Rufus Daniels, historians say. The commotion attracted a crowd and the attention of Alonzo Edwards, a soldier in the 24th Infantry who happened to be passing by, according to the accounts.
After Edwards inquired about the screaming woman, he was beaten and arrested, with Sparks referring to him using a racial slur and saying that he beat him “until his heart got right.”
Cpl. Charles Baltimore, a military policeman with the 24th Infantry who saw the beating inflicted on Edwards, inquired about his arrest and was told by Sparks that he was not in the habit of making reports to black people and hit him, Graham wrote. Then Baltimore was fired on three times as he ran from his assailants, Graham wrote. The police officers tracked him down, beat him, and then arrested him, Graham wrote.
Although he was subsequently released, a rumor circulated on base that he had been killed. According to some historians, even an appearance by Baltimore before some of the troops could not quell their anger.
The white officers of the 24th Regiment ordered that the weapons and ammunition on the base be taken up, but there was a rumor that a white mob was approaching the encampment, and the officers lost control of their troops, according to historian Robert Haynes and others. The mob never materialized, but black troops began firing at suspected attackers in the woods, and then loosely organized to march downtown.
A group of about 100 armed soldiers, believing that they were under siege and that their lives were in danger, began the two-mile trek into downtown Houston.
During the march and subsequent riot, the soldiers killed 15 white people, including four policemen, and seriously wounded 12 others, one of whom, a policeman, subsequently died, according to Haynes. Four black soldiers also died, one under uncertain circumstances. After the melee, the black soldiers slipped back into camp in the dark, Haynes wrote.
By Aug. 25, the Buffalo Soldiers were on two trains to Camp Furlong in Columbus, N.M. While on the train, seven soldiers agreed to testify against the others in exchange for clemency, the Texas State Historical Association Online Handbook said.
Once there, 118 of them were arrested by military officials and sent to the stockade at nearby Fort Bliss in El Paso to begin their wait for court-martial.
Two white officers each faced court-martial, but they were released, Graham wrote. No white civilians were brought to trial.
Called to right these wrongs
Tatum, the Fort Worth pastor, has toured Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio and visited the places where the executed men were tried and buried. He said he has partnered with the Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association to erect a plaque or a monument that will honor the sacrifice of the men who died.
“We’ve long been aware of this history,” said Billy Gordon, Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association president. “We are seeking justice and pardons for all of those who were found guilty because of the way it was handled.”
Tatum said that white people in Houston at the time, particularly the police, were concerned that if black soldiers were treated with dignity, black residents would expect the same treatment.
“Not only was this a state-sponsored lynching, afterward there was a continuation of state-sponsored discrimination,” Tatum said. “The Army did not want black soldiers to carry guns and fight like men. And it took a long time for that attitude to change.”
Angela Holder said she first heard about the riot and those who were executed at the home of her great aunt, where a photograph of her great uncle Jesse Moore, one of those men who was executed, hangs on the wall.
Moore was 27 when he died, Holder said. He never married and never had any children. It took nearly a century to discover where his body was buried, said Holder, a history professor at Houston Community College. Holder admitted some information about the riot is missing.
“I’ve been on this mission since I was 6 years old,” Holder said. “This is not one of the shining moments in our history but for better or worse this is one of the moments that make us who we are. I’m on a journey to find out more about this.”
Holder is curator of an ongoing exhibit on the Camp Logan Mutiny at Houston’s Buffalo Soldier National Museum.
Presidents Wilson and Warren Harding commuted and granted clemency to those soldiers who remained alive after the courts-martial. The last prisoner was freed from prison in 1938, but their names were never cleared, Graham said.
“Several presidents have had an opportunity to get this done but it has not gone through,” Graham said. “One hundred years have passed. It would have been great if Obama would have done this, but now, I believe the best chance of getting this through is Trump.”
Mitch Mitchell: 817-390-7752, @mitchmitchel3
Buffalo Soldiers hanged after 1917 race riot should be pardoned, advocates say
By Mitch Mitchell
November 19, 2018 08:00 AM
In 1917, 118 black soldiers were charged with murder, mutiny, aggravated assault and disobeying orders after a race riot in Houston. Nineteen of the soldiers were eventually hanged.
More than 100 years later, Priscilla Graham, a Houston author and historian, is among those seeking to have all the soldiers pardoned on the basis that their arrests and trials were unjust.
Graham has written to President Trump and before him President Obama asking for the pardons but has yet to receive a reply from the White House.
Actor James McEachin, the author of a fictionalized account of the trial of the soldiers titled, “Farewell to the Mockingbirds,” said he has tried to bring attention to the injustices that followed the riot and is also pushing the government to pardon those who were executed.
McEachin served in the 24th Infantry Regiment, the same Army unit in which the executed men served. They are known as Buffalo Soldiers. McEachin said he cannot let go of what he believes is a calling to right a wrong.
“I’ve tried my darnedest to get this story out,” McEachin said. “Getting this pardon will not be an easy fight. I’m kind of ashamed of myself. I should have started this movement a long time ago.”
The Aug. 23, 1917, race riot resulted in the deaths of at least 15 whites and four black soldiers and the subsequent jailing of more than 100 others. It was triggered by the rough arrest of a black woman.
The riot, also referred to as the Camp Logan Mutiny, is believed to be the only racial insurrection in the United States in which the white death toll exceeded the number of blacks who died. The largest court-martial in U.S. history followed the unrest, historians say.
Graham says the investigation that preceded the trial and the trial itself were shams, tainted with the same Jim Crow attitudes that triggered the unrest. For example, soldiers who didn’t sign the duty roll, missed roll call or were found to be off base during the night of the riots were presumed to be rioting and summarily arrested, according to Graham and other historians.
“There was no investigation,” Graham said. “Some of those who were found guilty probably were. But there was no way to tell which people actually fired the bullets that killed the people who died. There were soldiers who were hung who maintained until the end that they were not involved in the riot.”
Soldiers wrote letters home to their parents and friends, saying they had been sentenced to hang and vowed that they were not involved, Graham said. But it didn’t matter, she said.
“A lot of the soldiers just got caught up because of the color of their skin and because they weren’t accounted for,” Graham said. “You can’t just look at the testimony and you can’t believe the newspaper accounts. You have to look beyond those.”
1 lawyer for 118 defendants
The defense attorney who represented the soldiers at the courts-martial, Maj. Harry S. Grier, taught law at the U.S. Military Academy but had no trial experience and was not a lawyer, Graham and other historians say. The black soldiers were charged with murder and mutiny and faced a punishment up to death.
Three separate courts-martial were held, and Grier had two weeks to prepare for the initial proceeding on Nov. 1, 1917, Graham has written.
“One lawyer presented the cases for 118 soldiers,” Graham said.
She said the convictions were based on the testimony of the white officers, white civilians and seven soldiers who received immunity from prosecution because they agreed to testify against their fellow troops.
Graham said that when there was contradictory testimony, such as other soldiers testifying that an accused soldier was nowhere near the rioting, the court chose to believe the testimony that incriminated the black soldiers.
“You’ve got to understand racism was strong during this time and was the driving force behind this whole incident,” she said.
The initial execution of 13 men was carried out on Dec. 11, 1917 — at dawn, without public notice and without any opportunity to appeal the verdict, the actor McEachin said.
The U.S. Army created a rule on Jan. 17, 1918, that no enlisted personnel could be executed without first having the trial records examined by a judge advocate general, according to military records.
The army executed six additional Buffalo Soldiers in connection with the riots after the new judicial review process was established. Ten soldiers who were sentenced to death during two courts-martial had their death sentences commuted to life in prison by President Woodrow Wilson.
“They did not care whether the men were guilty or not guilty,” Graham said. “The only thing they cared about was public opinion.”
How the riot happened
The Buffalo Soldiers sprang from all-black regiments that were created during the Civil War. Some of the black soldiers had served in the Philippines, in Cuba and during the Spanish-American War, and regarded themselves as combat troops.
In the summer of 1917, about 650 Buffalo Soldiers and their white officers from the Third Batallion, 24th Infantry Regiment were assigned to guard Camp Logan, a training facility being constructed in Houston near the entrance to the current Memorial Park, just west of the city center in the Fourth Ward.
The assignment put the black soldiers in direct and often conflict-laden contact with white civilians and police officers, historians say.
On Aug. 23, 1917, two white Houston patrol officers chasing a gambling suspect barged into a Fourth Ward home and arrested a black woman they accused of hiding the suspect, according to multiple accounts.
The scantily clad woman screamed after being hit in the face and was hauled from her home by patrolmen Lee Sparks and Rufus Daniels, historians say. The commotion attracted a crowd and the attention of Alonzo Edwards, a soldier in the 24th Infantry who happened to be passing by, according to the accounts.
After Edwards inquired about the screaming woman, he was beaten and arrested, with Sparks referring to him using a racial slur and saying that he beat him “until his heart got right.”
Cpl. Charles Baltimore, a military policeman with the 24th Infantry who saw the beating inflicted on Edwards, inquired about his arrest and was told by Sparks that he was not in the habit of making reports to black people and hit him, Graham wrote. Then Baltimore was fired on three times as he ran from his assailants, Graham wrote. The police officers tracked him down, beat him, and then arrested him, Graham wrote.
Although he was subsequently released, a rumor circulated on base that he had been killed. According to some historians, even an appearance by Baltimore before some of the troops could not quell their anger.
The white officers of the 24th Regiment ordered that the weapons and ammunition on the base be taken up, but there was a rumor that a white mob was approaching the encampment, and the officers lost control of their troops, according to historian Robert Haynes and others. The mob never materialized, but black troops began firing at suspected attackers in the woods, and then loosely organized to march downtown.
A group of about 100 armed soldiers, believing that they were under siege and that their lives were in danger, began the two-mile trek into downtown Houston.
During the march and subsequent riot, the soldiers killed 15 white people, including four policemen, and seriously wounded 12 others, one of whom, a policeman, subsequently died, according to Haynes. Four black soldiers also died, one under uncertain circumstances. After the melee, the black soldiers slipped back into camp in the dark, Haynes wrote.
By Aug. 25, the Buffalo Soldiers were on two trains to Camp Furlong in Columbus, N.M. While on the train, seven soldiers agreed to testify against the others in exchange for clemency, the Texas State Historical Association Online Handbook said.
Once there, 118 of them were arrested by military officials and sent to the stockade at nearby Fort Bliss in El Paso to begin their wait for court-martial.
Two white officers each faced court-martial, but they were released, Graham wrote. No white civilians were brought to trial.
Called to right these wrongs
Tatum, the Fort Worth pastor, has toured Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio and visited the places where the executed men were tried and buried. He said he has partnered with the Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association to erect a plaque or a monument that will honor the sacrifice of the men who died.
“We’ve long been aware of this history,” said Billy Gordon, Bexar County Buffalo Soldiers Association president. “We are seeking justice and pardons for all of those who were found guilty because of the way it was handled.”
Tatum said that white people in Houston at the time, particularly the police, were concerned that if black soldiers were treated with dignity, black residents would expect the same treatment.
“Not only was this a state-sponsored lynching, afterward there was a continuation of state-sponsored discrimination,” Tatum said. “The Army did not want black soldiers to carry guns and fight like men. And it took a long time for that attitude to change.”
Angela Holder said she first heard about the riot and those who were executed at the home of her great aunt, where a photograph of her great uncle Jesse Moore, one of those men who was executed, hangs on the wall.
Moore was 27 when he died, Holder said. He never married and never had any children. It took nearly a century to discover where his body was buried, said Holder, a history professor at Houston Community College. Holder admitted some information about the riot is missing.
“I’ve been on this mission since I was 6 years old,” Holder said. “This is not one of the shining moments in our history but for better or worse this is one of the moments that make us who we are. I’m on a journey to find out more about this.”
Holder is curator of an ongoing exhibit on the Camp Logan Mutiny at Houston’s Buffalo Soldier National Museum.
Presidents Wilson and Warren Harding commuted and granted clemency to those soldiers who remained alive after the courts-martial. The last prisoner was freed from prison in 1938, but their names were never cleared, Graham said.
“Several presidents have had an opportunity to get this done but it has not gone through,” Graham said. “One hundred years have passed. It would have been great if Obama would have done this, but now, I believe the best chance of getting this through is Trump.”
Mitch Mitchell: 817-390-7752, @mitchmitchel3
- dilbert firestorm
- 08-30-2020, 04:09 AM
as I was reading the account. I was dumbfounded that the brass in the Army would send armed black boys down to Texas which was part of Jim Crow South. did they realize this was akin to lighting a match to dry leaves????
what were they thinking? everything would be hunky dory when they sent them down there to build Camp Logan.
should there be posthumous pardon for the buffalo soldiers who were executed?
even their brother, Obama, wouldn't do it.
is Trump the man to do it?
what do you think?
what were they thinking? everything would be hunky dory when they sent them down there to build Camp Logan.
should there be posthumous pardon for the buffalo soldiers who were executed?
even their brother, Obama, wouldn't do it.
is Trump the man to do it?
what do you think?
- the_real_Barleycorn
- 08-30-2020, 05:59 AM
I know Kevin Willmott, Kevin Willmott was my screenwriting teacher at KU. If he had regards for history, it is a recently acquired point of view. We had many heated discussions over his rape of history with his CSA. No, history is merely a tool to a radical like Willmott. Still, he has talent. The question is, can you trust his facts. He is no Ken Burns.
Tulsa, Rosewood, and Houston were all black marks on the character of this nation. Were they indicative of the country? You have to ask yourself whether they could have occurred in Syracuse, NY, Akron, OH, or Sacramento, CA. I tend to think that they are representative of the racist, democratic south and not the country. True, there were major crimes in the eastern north but they were more xenophobic than racial. The Five-Point riots against immigrants, the attacks on Italians, Irish, and Asians in the west and east were about the foreign fears of the unknown. Willmott cannot accept that. His racism is celebrated today.
Tulsa, Rosewood, and Houston were all black marks on the character of this nation. Were they indicative of the country? You have to ask yourself whether they could have occurred in Syracuse, NY, Akron, OH, or Sacramento, CA. I tend to think that they are representative of the racist, democratic south and not the country. True, there were major crimes in the eastern north but they were more xenophobic than racial. The Five-Point riots against immigrants, the attacks on Italians, Irish, and Asians in the west and east were about the foreign fears of the unknown. Willmott cannot accept that. His racism is celebrated today.
- LexusLover
- 08-30-2020, 06:53 AM
Our history should always be fact-based and not supposition or interpretation.
Are we really better today?
Some recently called the above .... "reparations"!
Are we really better today?
Some recently called the above .... "reparations"!
- dilbert firestorm
- 08-30-2020, 07:18 AM
I know Kevin Willmott, Kevin Willmott was my screenwriting teacher at KU. If he had regards for history, it is a recently acquired point of view. We had many heated discussions over his rape of history with his CSA. No, history is merely a tool to a radical like Willmott. Still, he has talent. The question is, can you trust his facts. He is no Ken Burns.
Tulsa, Rosewood, and Houston were all black marks on the character of this nation. Were they indicative of the country? You have to ask yourself whether they could have occurred in Syracuse, NY, Akron, OH, or Sacramento, CA. I tend to think that they are representative of the racist, democratic south and not the country. True, there were major crimes in the eastern north but they were more xenophobic than racial. The Five-Point riots against immigrants, the attacks on Italians, Irish, and Asians in the west and east were about the foreign fears of the unknown. Willmott cannot accept that. His racism is celebrated today. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn
thanx for shining light on the screenwriter, Willmott. thats a good question, the movie he made, did it tell history honestly or twist the facts to suit his purpose.
i provided additional links (wikipedia) for verification of this story.
I noticed the number of executed was incorrect. I did a count. 25 people were executed for the affair, not 19. there were 5 trials, 3 main, 2 minor.
- HoeHummer
- 08-30-2020, 10:06 AM
Good read.
101 years ago.
Why the sudden fascination in race riot history’s. I imagine more WSND spin and propagandas to be added to this.
101 years ago.
Why the sudden fascination in race riot history’s. I imagine more WSND spin and propagandas to be added to this.
- LexusLover
- 08-30-2020, 10:20 AM
Why the sudden fascination in race riot history’s. I imagine more WSND spin and propagandas to be added to this. Originally Posted by HoeHummer#1: Not "sudden"!
#2: Who needs "spin and propagandas"?
How about reality? Who was VP?
Or is that why so many Governors allowed the liquor stores to remain open? Wez needs som booze!
- oeb11
- 08-30-2020, 10:29 AM
The racist, marxist DPST's are again fomenting racial identity political divides and violence with misrepresentation of history,
of course, history to the DPST's is subject to cancel culture of anything they don't like or is not their narrative - or is not twisted out of reality to their narrative.
while appreciate the post and lson in history - It will be judged by the narxist DPST's as by modern sensibilities - rather than a lesson from the past about the tragedies of racism.
Rather than advocating for equality for all under the law - Dpst marxists are demanding reparations from white folks who are not racist - with the concept of 'Institutional and universal racism of the caucasian race" - and are using these incidents for foment and enable more violence and racial divide.
Biden is clearly - by history and actions - a racist of teh First and greatest order - yet his racism is hidden by a DPST and DNC party inyent on defeating Trump uber alles. Their Fascism in enabling racial divide is a poison for our Country.
of course, history to the DPST's is subject to cancel culture of anything they don't like or is not their narrative - or is not twisted out of reality to their narrative.
while appreciate the post and lson in history - It will be judged by the narxist DPST's as by modern sensibilities - rather than a lesson from the past about the tragedies of racism.
Rather than advocating for equality for all under the law - Dpst marxists are demanding reparations from white folks who are not racist - with the concept of 'Institutional and universal racism of the caucasian race" - and are using these incidents for foment and enable more violence and racial divide.
Biden is clearly - by history and actions - a racist of teh First and greatest order - yet his racism is hidden by a DPST and DNC party inyent on defeating Trump uber alles. Their Fascism in enabling racial divide is a poison for our Country.
- the_real_Barleycorn
- 08-30-2020, 11:32 AM
A sudden history or race riots? A Birth of a Nation, the remake of Birth of a Nation, FM, Rosewood, Police Academy, A Time to Kill, Coach Carter, and the list goes on. All had riots as part of the plot and race was a factor.
- LexusLover
- 08-30-2020, 12:18 PM
All had riots as part of the plot and race was a factor. Originally Posted by the_real_BarleycornAn excuse more than a "factor," which requires an intellectual evaluation for the purpose of crafting a motive for the activities.
The below has nothing to do with race as a "factor"....
It also has NOTHING TO DO WITH TRUMP!
- oeb11
- 08-30-2020, 03:08 PM
Riots and looting - are everything to do with biden/harris and teh racist, marxist DPST party which pays, enables, and foments the rioters.
They see the violence as a strike against trump.
I despise teh violence - but hoep they keep up their misguided violence through nov 3
With a conservative house, Senate, and POTUS - the country can come to order and rid itself of the marxist racists terrorists Biden/harris et al have inflicted on the nation!
They see the violence as a strike against trump.
I despise teh violence - but hoep they keep up their misguided violence through nov 3
With a conservative house, Senate, and POTUS - the country can come to order and rid itself of the marxist racists terrorists Biden/harris et al have inflicted on the nation!
- LexusLover
- 08-30-2020, 03:46 PM
This stupid crap of destroying, looting, and killing (or assaulting) has been going on long before the Bitten-Kumola team was formed AND before Trump was President. As I said ... the below was Pre-Trump ...
and so was the Chicago slaughtering. Pointing at the police merely detracts from the truth.
There are LoonaTicks who are now justifying the stealing as "reparations"!
and so was the Chicago slaughtering. Pointing at the police merely detracts from the truth.
There are LoonaTicks who are now justifying the stealing as "reparations"!
- oeb11
- 08-30-2020, 06:48 PM
Biden and harris along with the rst of the racist, marxist DPST ilk are now blaming Trump for the riots.
Biden said - 'we live in trump's America" - and he lies - because the racist, marxist DPST's control the venues/cities where riots and looting by the agents of the DPST's are allowed to continue.
They refuse trump's offers of Federal help - and continue to enable violence.
These racist, Marxist DPST enablers are commiting violence on their own communities - and should be arrested and put on trial for their crimes of enabling riots,
Biden said - 'we live in trump's America" - and he lies - because the racist, marxist DPST's control the venues/cities where riots and looting by the agents of the DPST's are allowed to continue.
They refuse trump's offers of Federal help - and continue to enable violence.
These racist, Marxist DPST enablers are commiting violence on their own communities - and should be arrested and put on trial for their crimes of enabling riots,