Regina King plays Angela Abar — a.k.a. Sister Night — knocking and killing white supremacists 👊 ✊ 😂
The opening scene was based on a real life massacre committed by white supremacists also known as the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black Wall Street Massacre
Watchmen is set in 2019, but these opening 10 minutes depict the Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre of 1921. The massacre was pure malevolent violence committed on Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street,” undertaken by white citizens who killed dozens and wounded even more (exact totals are unknown) while burning black property to the ground. It is widely considered one of the most shocking acts of racial violence in American history, and it’s core to what Watchmen is saying about America today.
— Vox
