```Itâs not a plot contrivance that Hooded Justice is black â it couldnât be any other way. A society that brims with the unresolved pain and anguish of racial trauma canât help producing a reaction. Hooded Justice is violent and uncompromising. He beats and kills and acts in contempt of the law. But HBOâs âWatchmenâ suggests his crusade is fundamentally righteous â that his brutal work is necessary.
Our society does not have masked vigilantes meting out punishment to racists. But if there were a Hooded Justice â if our history of racial violence and trauma had produced an avenger, of sorts â then âWatchmenâ seems to say that whether or not itâs right, it is justified.
``` https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/opinion/watchmen-hbo.html
