Oh how I wish I didn’t have to read about so many Anti-Zombie spectacles:

A family dressed all in purple, likely arriving from the football game, parked their car in Aggieville on Friday. They opened the doors to get out, chatting with one another, when suddenly Roger Adams, curator of Special Collections and associate professor, rushed up to them waving a cane over his head, blood on his shirt.

“Get back in the car,” Adams yelled at them. “They’re coming!”

Yes, Kansas State apparently held a Zombie Walk to promote, err, misunderstanding and fear and prejudice. Attacking cars, classic stereotyping, the works.

And yet they tied it to a charity fundraiser so I cannot completely condemn it either:

An hour and a half earlier, the participants had met on the west side of City Park to collect canned goods for the Flint Hills Breadbasket and put on makeup to prepare for the Zombie Walk. Maribeth Kieffer, executive director of the Breadbasket, stood off to the side and watched as the crowd grew larger and more horrifying while they collected donations.

“We need it,” Kieffer said with a shrug. The Breadbasket has seen a surge in demand this year, servicing 1,039 more people in August of this year than in August of 2010. Kieffer said illness and loss of jobs were the most common reasons why people came to the Breadbasket for help. The Aggieville Zombie Walk presented her with four large boxes full of food collected. There were no brains in the donation boxes — those were saved for the horde.

Really, Kansas State? You couldn’t collect canned goods without stereotyping our clients? Would that have been so hard?

Argh.

No, that’s not a ‘groan like a Zombie’ argh either, KSU. It’s just an ‘exasperated activist’ groan.

Next year maybe you can leave the hatemongering at home and just do good without spreading fear of the Differently Animated? Maybe?

It’d make things a lot easier for some very decent people who just happen to be Undead. Thanks.

PS: Enough with comparing the Differently Animated to some natural disaster, people:

Dave and Joy-Lynn Carlson, Manhattan residents, heard about the Aggieville Zombie Walk from one of the organizers. The Carlsons are members of a charity preparedness organization called Zombie Squad, which uses zombies as a fun metaphor to encourage people to prepare for disasters. Subsequently, they decided to dress as survivors for the Zombie Walk.

“We are the premier non-stationary cadaver task force,” Dave Carlson said. “That means they get up and start moving again, we make them deader.”

Dave’s advice to fellow survivors was to stock up on Twinkees.

“In my opinion, they’re better than Spam,” he said.

‘Make them deader’? So, ‘Zombie Squad’ is some sort of Anti-Zombie terrorist cell that assaults the Differently Animated?

Wow. There are some dangerous nuts out there. Dangerous and violent, for shame.

Tags: Anti-Zombie Public Event, Journamalism

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