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HBO’s Watchmen Shocks Viewers with Truth, Depicts Tulsa Race Massacre

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The series premiere of Watchmen on HBO shattered quite a few rose-colored glasses with their stunning depiction of the real-life tragedy that was the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Known commonly as the bombing of Black Wall Street, the show’s portrayal of events has viewers scrambling for information of the rarely discussed catastrophe.

Racial Violence Is Interwoven into the Fabric of American History

Written by Damon Lindelof and directed by Nicole Kassell, the brave choice of showing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has prompted discussion about the historic gaps in the American educational system. With many Twitter users sharing sentiments that they are glad to have been informed, viewers of the series are now scrambling for information and historical accounts of what has been called “the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.” The 18-hour assault on Black residents and businesses claimed an unknown number of lives and injured countless more. The tragedy resulted in the decimation of a once buzzing community and left more than 10,000 Black people homeless. The 1921 calamity went unrecognized until 2001. Even now, the search for mass graves continues so descendants may memorialize their dead.

Smells Like Bleach

Titled “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice”, the premiere episode of Watchmen has divided its audience. As many viewers were unaware of the events of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, some have responded in disbelief. Labeling it an attempt to skew the show’s message for a liberal audience, disgruntled fans have taken to Rotten Tomatoes to review bomb the series. With the audience score sitting at 48% and dropping, it seems fans of the DC comic are disappointed white supremacist terrorism is outed even in the fictional world.

Operating under the name “The 7th Kavalry”, the fictional white supremacist terrorist organization is a nod to the regiment that participated in the American Indian Wars, including The Battle of Little Bighorn (referenced later in the show). Spewing the gospel of Rorschach, the group is a stand-in for the KKK, having ditched their pointed hoods for Rorschach masks. Maintaining the same beliefs, the 7th Kavalry puts a twist on their bigotry. Along with the prejudice of other races, police officers are targeted as well and were attacked during an event called “The White Night”. Angela Abraham aka Sister Night, a former police officer and the show’s protagonist, was a victim of the incident which prompted her retirement.

Based on the limited DC series of the same name, Lindelof seems committed to blending present-day society with the source material. Already asking the country to be introspective and critical of its questionable history, we can be sure the remaining nine episodes will bring us more of these hard truths.

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Rolling Ray Undergoes Surgery After Wig Catches On Fire

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Social media star Rolling Ray underwent surgery Tuesday morning to treat serious burns on his body after his terrible wig accident last week. 

In a series of IG stories, he let his audience follow along as he prepped for surgery.

Last week Rolling Ray announced he was hospitalized after his wig caught on fire! During a January 13 Instagram Live session hosted straight from his hospital bedside, he showed his severely burnt and damaged face telling viewers his “whole skin, legs, arms, feet, and everything” were burned.

In a more recent Live, Ray explained the incident that led to his whole wig catching on fire: an unfortunate smoking accident. “It just, like, lit on fire when I tried to light the cigarette,” he recounted. “So I get to trying to snatch the wig off. B***h, the fire goes to my f*****g shirt, to my feet, to my legs, to my back. It’s a fire everywhere, it’s a fire in the whole room.” 

Of course the internet trolled him in a disgusting display of ableism and heartlessness. Comments like “Rolling Ray should have stopped, dropped, and rolled” and “karma’s a b***h” had social media conflicted in its feelings about his accident. His sensation comes from his harsh and, often, below-the-belt reads (just last month he told Yung Miami to “dig (sic) up” her dead baby father. However, the criticism didn’t stop him from responding on Twitter. 

Rolling Ray might be problematic as all get-out, but we do not tolerate ableism here. We wish him well as he heals.

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Fantasia Reveals Gender of Baby On the Way!

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On Tuesday singer-songwriter and “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino took to social media to reveal that she is having a baby girl, her first child with husband Kendall Taylor.

In a series of Instagram stories, Fantasia showed pink fireworks being shot off during a gender reveal party, to her and her hubby’s excitement! She continued by sharing what her daughter-to-be’s name will be: Keziah London Taylor.

The news comes after the couple revealed they had struggled to conceive since their 2015 marriage. During a November episode of her IG Live show “Taylor Talks,” she described continuously praying for a child with her husband. Fantasia, a deeply devout Christian, was obviously elated when she shared the news.

“God I Want To Thank You!” she said in an Instagram caption. “You Gave Us A Seed even when the Doctor said that one of my Tubes [was] Closed you said Different. @salute1st I Love You King and I can’t wait to see who He or She acts Like.”

We can see Fantasia and family are all super excited to be welcoming a baby girl into their lives. All congratulations to her.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Are Getting Divorced, Report Says

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In a story published Tuesday evening, Page Six is reporting that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting divorced, with the two already in settlement talks. The news comes after the couple spent the holiday season separately – Kanye at his ranch outside Cody, Wyoming, Kim and the kids with her famous family in southern California. 

A source close to Kardashian was quoted saying, “Kim got Kanye to go up there so they could live separate lives and quietly get things sorted out to separate and divorce. She’s done.” Kardashian, 40, and West, 43, are said to be splitting because of marital problems directly related to Kanye’s very public mental health struggles.

For several years the rapper’s various antics have caused fans to worry. After coming out as a Trump supporter, West then announced his own 2020 presidential bid under a new political party: the Birthday Party. At a campaign rally in South Carolina, he was seen rambling, debating individual audience members, and at times, crying. In various interviews, he has rambled on almost incoherently, and his tweetstorms are now infamous.

For her part, Kim has always supported her husband and has openly discussed the difficulties of their marriage. Back in June, she shared on social media, “Anyone who has [bipolar disorder] or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand… People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgmental and not understand that the individual (has) to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard family and friends try.”

It appears she has finally reached her limit in the union with the unnamed source saying, “She is serious about taking the bar exam and becoming a lawyer, she is serious about her prison reform campaign. Meanwhile Kanye is talking about running for president and saying other crazy s**t, and she’s just had enough of it.”

Separately, a source close to Kanye alleges the rapper is sick of his wife and her family, which might have some truth to it since he has tweeted some pretty nasty things about them in the past. “I been trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek at the Warldolf [sic] for ‘prison reform,’” he said in a now-deleted July tweet. Recently, he hasn’t been featured on his wife’s Instagram and has largely remained out of the public eye.

With the news yet to be confirmed, the “divorce is imminent” reports are just rumors for now. We’ll be following the news as more information comes out.

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