“Obama’s America Is Planet Of Apes”
The racial politics behind 'Planet of the Apes:
Finally, it's a scenario not very improbable
not a very improbable scenario:
Glenn Beck compared Obama’s America to “the damn Planet of the Apes,” Thursday during a rant against the president’s praise for the AFL-CIO.
Beck made the comparison while trying to blame union support of strong pensions for the nation’s high unemployment rate. He doesn't like that former SEIU president Andy Stern sits on the president’s panel on deficit reduction.
From the very beginning of movies, with D.W. Griffith's racist propaganda film The Birth of a Nation there have been racist themes and images in mainstream movies. For much of the 20th century, black audiences endured blackface, coons and with the exception of a few dignified Sidney Poitier roles in the 50s and 60s -- barely any representation at all. When the blaxploitation genre broke through in the 1970s it did give more African-American talent a chance to shine but these films largely glorified violence and crime, as well as brutality towards women.
The original Planet of the Apes, starring screen legend Charlton Heston, released in 1968, served as sort of a cinematic version of John Howard Griffin's 1961 book Black Like Me, where Griffin experienced life as a black man by darkening his skin and reported back on his findings. It's a "what if the shoe was on the other foot?" type scenario where white men experience the type of discrimination usually reserved for black people.
Apes imagined a fictional world 2,000 years in the future where monkeys, gorillas, and other primates take on human features including the sort of racism that the Civil Rights Movement was addressing at the time, only directed at human beings. It's about how power corrupts and can be used unjustly but one isn't always aware of the injustice until they experience it for themselves.
The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a “re-imagining” of the classic Planet of the Apes movies, prove that the racial politics and stereotypes that have long fueled the franchise and are still very present in Hollywood.
Combine the discrimination the apes face in the movie with the long-held stereotypes that likens Black people to apes themselves, and the Rise of the Planet of the Apes appears to be the latest popular culture portrayal of race relations in America.
A scenario not very improbable.
Well, it's an extreme scenario, but think beyond the primate body, think of the animal spirit, which is already present in America, and cross breed that happened in an excessive level since the 70's, some talk about Satan ovulating and fertilizing through the cross breed, ever wondered why blacks want to cross breed in an obsessional way, why he wants to spread his seeds left and right, in every possible and impossible occasion, among all races, it's Satan army rising, the new specie, the mutants. Some talk recently about a Parasite invasion and the take over by minority, this is the realizable scenario of the planet of the apes, it's very feasible scenario, some who felt the danger already elaborated theories to fight back, the ethnic cleansing as an extreme measure and the Reserve as a moderate solution.
Off course events like this don't happen overnight, it's a long-term process, history shifts take decades to centuries, check out the history of the world, America is in transition time, just observe the recent events, either you collapse or you revolt. Something must happen to shake the stagnation of your nation, a stagnation similar to standing on quicksand.
Now, let's see beyond the lab, and let's examine some demographic facts:
Finally, it's a scenario not very improbable
Now, let's see some facts about the evolution of the ethnic integration by groups of the society:
A new study indicates that lower-income European Americans (i.e. poor white people) are the most discriminated against group of people in college admissions. Russell K. Nieli writes: When lower-class whites are matched with lower-class blacks and other non-whites the degree of the non-white advantage becomes astronomical: lower-class Asian applicants are seven times as likely to be accepted to the competitive private institutions as similarly qualified whites, lower-class Hispanic applicants eight times as likely, and lower-class blacks ten times as likely. These are enormous differences and reflect the fact that lower-class whites were rarely accepted to the private institutions Espenshade and Radford surveyed. Their diversity-enhancement value was obviously rated very low.
Finally, it's
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