Voodoo Drums Over the White House

I'm constantly amazed at the way in which people frequently miss the obvious target.  I mean, right now we've got Trump and all his right-wing crazies slandering Haitian immigrants by claiming that they are eating people's pet cats and dogs, with some of them linking it all to voodoo practices, yet they miss the obvious racist slur that the Haitians are busy raising the dead as zombies.  Surely that is no less lunatic than the eating household pets business?  And this has been a notably lunatic presidential campaign.  But really, there are all sorts of places the crazies could go with the zombie angle in terms of grossly offensive racist stereotyping.  The obvious one is that they are raising a zombie army to attack 'whitey', sending them out to eat not cats and dogs, but their owners.  Indeed, they could try to pin rises in crime rates in cities with significant Haitian communities on the zombie invasion.  Even better, they could claim that evil Haitian voodoo witch doctors are raising white people from the dead as zombies in order to commit necrophilia with them - a sort of gross out 'black-brutes-raping white-women (and men)' meme.  Or, they could claim that they are sending their black zombies out to do the raping of living white women, in an equally gross out scenario.  Maybe they are getting all those white zombies to perform demeaning acts for their amusement - even engaging in gross out decomposing orgies.

I suppose that the failure to exploit the zombie aspect of voodoo politically is simply yet more evidence of the general ignorance of right wing crackpots.  Certainly, it tells us that they don't watch cheap horror movies from the seventies, where Haitians, (or, indeed, just about any black person), were always busy raising corpses for nefarious purposes.  After all, they were very cheap monsters to create - usually just a regular guy in slightly torn clothes and greyish make-up wandering around with their arms out-stretched.  The thing is that never, ever, in any of these films did I ever see those Haitians eating cats and dogs, either as part of their zombie-raising rituals or just for fun - and I can tell you that cheap exploitation films never lie about such things.  But getting back to Trump and his right-wing loons, by ignoring the zombie angle they are missing out on the big one as far as election lunacy goes - the opportunity to tie the whole Haitian immigrant business in with Joe Biden.  That's right, they could have claimed that Biden had actually died in office, then been resurrected as a zombie by Haitian voodoo witch doctors, which is why his administration and the Democrats in general, are i thrall to the immigrant lobby.  If they wanted to go the whole hog in the offensiveness stakes by tying in Kamala Harris as well, accusing her of being a voodoo high priestess who was now controlling the zombie Biden.  But, hey, I'm afraid that they've missed the boat by getting obsessed with those cat and dog rumours.