‘Watchmen’ Was Fantasy, But The Need To Discuss Reparations Is Very Real

Expand On Oct. 7, 2019 photo, Kristi Williams, left, and Chief Egunwale Amusan view a cemetery map during a search for possible mass burial graves from Tulsa's 1921 Race Massacre at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. © Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP Watchmen may have been snubbed by the Golden Globes, but the season finale left many viewers in awe. As Black women who hail from Tulsa, Oklahoma — where the Watchmen plot plays out — we hope the season's biggest legacy will be what it forces all of us to consider now that it's over. This is not the time for white Americans to pat themselves…

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