Are blacks being setup as Zombies worthy of destruction?
By: Dr. Samori Swygert
I’m a very keen observer of subliminal undertones and messages. Many times individuals or groups will use caricatures to subtly convey plans, or feelings about other individuals to avoid directly offending them or the revealing of plans.
I can’t help but wonder if the media has already conducted this psychological trick about African Americans by using Zombies.
That may sound kind of far fetched, but walk with me mentally before you discard my hypothesis. Have you noticed this cascading trend and pervasive media infatuation with Zombies over the last 3 years? This genre of Hollywood production has garnered the attention of kids to adults.
We’ve seen commercials for the AMC TV show, The Walking Dead, and trailers for the movie World War Z. A whole financial empire has almost been developed around this theme from DVDs, books, movies, and clothing paraphernalia.
The setting or plot typically involves a segment of the population that has been exposed to some highly contagious virus that invades the human body. Once the human has been infected, their mind and body is completely under the power and influence of this invasive virus.
The script portrays zombies as a creation unworthy of the right to engage in human negotiations, dialogue or resolution. Zombies are automatically perceived as a threat that must be quarantined, neutralized, or “purged” without consideration of discussion. In the TV shows and movies, the zombies are exterminated with extreme prejudice, devoid of sympathy and undeserving of empathy.
Heavy emphasis is placed on killing and annihilation, to the point that it looks like a sport and viewers actually cheer as zombies are slaughtered in various manners.
The zombie character is portrayed in such a evil, fearful, and negative manner that the humans in the film are basically encouraged to kill them at will in their own vigilante enclaves in order to save and preserve humanity.
The killing of zombies is rationalized, justified, condoned, and endorsed by all humans because the zombies have been officially vilified and declared a “deadly threat”. The approval from any authority is unwarranted in the movies.
However, we are seeing this same theme occur with increased frequency in our streets in real life.
When vigilante citizens and mercenary cops kill African Americans with impunity like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Yusef Hawkins, Oscar Grant and more, do they see humans or some sub-human creation?
If the media can make us appear sub-human, does that make our homicide justifiable, acceptable, and socially palatable?
Now let’s translate
Suppose that the zombie forming virus is really…….. a philosophy, an idea, a belief that invades the mind and psyche and then spreads uncontrollably. Do you remember how the philosophy, idea, and belief of “Black Power” spread like a virus in the 1960’s?
The feeling of “Black Power” resonated with millions of African Americans. The idea of “Black Power” evolved into a threat. The threat evolved into fear, loathing, resentment, and hate. The idea that millions of African Americans were now speaking out, and fighting back against a system of injustice, and disturbing the peaceful privilege enjoyed by whites and wealthy elite, shattered centuries of comfort. This viral threat of “Black Power” had to be neutralized. This lead to the indiscriminate killing of African American leaders and Civil Rights supporters by vigilante citizens, and police.
Official plan to handle zombies
Please understand that there is an official government plan (CONOP 8888) in place to handle “zombies”. At the end of this article, I will furnish coverage by CNN, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and other reputable news sources that discuss the Pentagon’s plan for a Zombie Apocalypse.
The titles of these news articles captivated my attention, because I found it rather interesting that the Pentagon would devise a plan for “zombies”. However, upon reading more of the articles, they weren’t necessarily referring to Hollywood Horror genre type zombies.
They were using the term “zombies” to denote a targeted group that may pose a threat or probable insurrection, and the term zombie was used as to avoid labeling any specific race, faith, political group, faction and any other kind of demographic. This means the term zombie can be applied to: African Americans, Muslims, Undocumented Immigrants, Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, Protests like Occupy, and etc.
The point is, there is a plan in place. This really got me thinking about how Ferguson, Missouri was handled. Ferguson can be analyzed as a case study of crowd control, and mobilization of deadly force against a people that are deemed as an uncontrollable threat. What are your thoughts on this???….
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Here is a Youtube video by one of my favorite rappers: Nas. The song is called: Black Zombies, listen to the words.
CNN article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/politics/pentagon-zombie-apocalypse/
Forbes article:
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) article:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
Washington Post Article:
