Every single expansion of civil rights in the United States has been accompanied by violence. It’s literally woven into the fabric of this country. And violence does bring change and many times for good. I don’t advocate violence unless all other avenues are cut off as is so often the case for all minorities in this…

Old white guy here. Hope you don’t mind my reading this.

Yeah - that’s part of the beauty of this show. For me anyway, the understanding of the history and how it shapes us into who and what we are in the present day. I applaud HBO for having the courage to continue to show melanin in roles and situations and relationships and dramas that have not historically been…

Again, I’m not gonna police the grammar of folks in this space. I don’t like, or appreciate, the power dynamics it sets up in a specifically Black space. 

The Black folks lynched that white man because he did a hit and run on a Black woman who identified him before she died.

When Nana Hattie said that, it took me clean out. I watched that episode at least 3x and cried every single time. 

I agree with you but hurt people hurt people. They didn’t have the same resource in 1955 that we do now to deal with trauma. Hell, we only really started to accept that mental health was real the Black community as a whole in the last 15 years. And that was probably because Oprah said take a look at it Black folk. In…

And it would have happened anyway. This wasn’t the first, or even last black community that was massacred. Also, Kinitra even posted a link to the Osage murders, where they (the Oasge) tried to involve law enforcement. So regardless of your using this as some sort of weird example against taking up arms, if the…

yeah, just popped over from the i09 take and...yeah...i’m just gonna read Kinitra’s takes on it from now on. so much more intimate and thoughtful nuance less concerned with typical sci-fi/horror storytelling tropes, and more focused on the meat and gristle of the message.  not to say that Charles’ own critique of the…

Exactly. Being non-violent in the face of extreme violence just means extreme genocide.  It’s not as if they were like, “oh, these people are being peaceful, guess we better stop being so brutal”.

Yes, because non-violence has worked so well. There is nothing irresponsible about this narrative for it is historically accurate and Black folks in my family and community armed themselves so I can be here writing these recaps.

He called it “road rash”

I’m surprised he wasn’t drinking actual gasoline by the end of the episode, that was some rough shit to go through.

Showrunner Misha Green also admitted that she failed indigenous and trans communities with Montrose killing off Yahima. Which yes sucks, and despite Montrose’s trauma it’s a hard scene to forget. But at least she didn’t stick to her guns like most HBO showrunners.

Chyle, that was a journey, wasn’t it. Dude needed something harder than a drink because that was...a lot. 

Agreed. It wasn’t a criticism. She loved Watchmen as well. Lovecraft Country simply took a more intimate route in its portrayal--which allowed for this level of accuracy. 

“How to go from being righteously pissed at your dad to understanding why he’s so broken in 24 hours or less.”

I took that statement as a truism and not a criticism. 

Time traveling back in time to see your younger self get a beatdown by your Daddy and that was like the 19th worst thing that happened to you that very day...

“What I liked about this portrayal, [was] them showing African Americans fighting back. There were Blacks fighting to defend their community...Watchmen didn’t show that.”