Influenced by Zombie Apocalypse Myth, Police Oppress Those They Think Are Zombielike
A truly disturbing story out of Georgia, where apparently ‘Zombie’ has become a code word for people the police find undesirable and want to defame, even harass:
WARNER ROBINS — The houses along the half-mile street, Southern Avenue, are outwardly worn, and the people who live in the neighborhood are well-aware the street is ridden with crime.
“Junkies and prostitutes. They the ones walking up and down the street” at night, said resident Martavis Williams.
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The residents who spoke Friday about their downtrodden street in the northeast corner of the city agreed those Southern Avenue frequenters were likely the target of the term a Warner Robins police lieutenant allegedly used in a reported Facebook post. One resident said he did not have a problem with the comment about “the Zombie Apocalypse” on the street.
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“The date of the Zombie Apocalypse is approaching quickly. If you want proof drive down Southern Ave at 0200. All you will see is Zombies and Brandon the Zombie hunter,” said one of three alleged posts that investigators are reviewing.
Truly an unnerving and unsettling case of an individual who seems to have lost contact with reality and now believes himself to be a hero-figure, a Survivor, from some ghastly ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ scenario. Which of course would justify callousness and indifference toward the citizens of a crime-ridden area he allegedly serves; after all, if they’re all ‘Zombies’, or soon will be, what’s the point, right? So goes the logic of the Living Supremacist.
Naturally the media chooses to frame the debate in other terms; is ‘Zombie’ actually a code word for African-Americans, they ask, instead of looking at the truth: the blood-drenched Anti-Zombie media is having a real impact in the way actual authority figures, armed with guns and funded by the state, do their jobs and interact with the citizenry, whether Living, Undead or somewhere in between.
Shocking and appalling behavior all around, and yet another failure to add to the lengthy list from our society’s so-called journalists I might add.
Compounding the tragedy is the fact that even those who have been lumped in with Zombies and oppressed in the name of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ still find themselves unable to ally with the Differently Animated against this mistreatment:
However, residents Mystic Best, 27, and Crystal Jackson, 19, said, the term “zombie” is inappropriate, no matter who said it. Though the friends admitted to being in trouble with police in the past, they said Southern Avenue is their home.
“It was really foul,” Best said. “I have a family, kids. When I walk through here, I don’t see no zombies.”
Maybe if Best opened their eyes they could see that Zombies are people too, and the police are employing a classic divide and conquer strategy, successfully, it seems, stifling any nascent Solidarity movement between the Differently Animated and other underserved Georgia communities.
Don’t even get me started on how it’s apparently now acceptable to conflate Zombies and drug addicts, prostitutes, etc either. We’ve seen ‘Zombie’ used to describe parasites, diseases, out-of-vogue ideas in politics and economics, and now it’s a term to describe any criminal element that stodgy authorities don’t want to deal with. Isn’t that special?
Repulsive. The whole story is just repulsive and sad. Special Kudos to Valve and Robert Kirkman for setting their Anti-Zombie franchises in the South, by the way, and inflaming what are obviously already dangerous tensions in the region. I hope they’re happy with the results of the polluted Anti-Zombie culture and mythos of the Deep South, one that they helped to further poison.
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