It seems to me that it has been a LONG time since someone posted a theoretical post like this for people to comment on. I love these kinds of posts. On to the disection....
 Originally Posted by Minerva_Zombi
I know he's not but, I was thinking and Looking at the living dead movies its weird. I can see how someone could misinterpret them and make Romero out to be a racist.
Example 1 : (Night Of The Living Dead) - 1 black guy in a house full of white people. The black guy says one thing, the white guy says another. They decide to follow the black guy and everyone gets killed. But if everyone would have listened to Harry, they would have all survived.
Is that Romero's way of saying "If you choose to support the black people's opinion and take their side on things, you will be doomed? lol.
To the contrary, I think the reason everyone got killed was INCREDIBLY CRAPPY BARRICADING SKILLS!! The scene where Ben is saying how they pretty much got everything baricaded (or words to that effect) you can see a completely unprotected window right behind him! I have said before that going to the cellar should absolutely have only been as a last resort. Being in the house would be much preferable. They seemed to have plenty of nails, they should have been tearing down non-load bearing interior walls and using 2X4's and plywood from there to barricade. They should have brought the dressers from the bedrooms upstairs down and used them to put behind barricaded doors to re-inforce them. But as far as the cellar goes, you would have no idea how long you would have to be down there. Hours? Days? Weeks? There was no bathroom down there. Imagine a group of strangers having to crap in the corner in front of everyone else. Imagine the smell! Three adult women.. what if they started to menstrate? Being in the confined cellar would be a horendous situation for all. If they had spent less time arguing and more time baricading, they would have had a much better chance at survival. Ben's plan was not faulty, it was lack of co-operation to carry it out that was the problem. Of course, great baricading would have ruined the plot of the movie.....
Originally Posted by Minerva_Zombi
Example 2 : (Dawn Of The Dead) - Peter kills both Stephen and Roger and then runs away with the white woman.
Is Romero saying "Hey, try to buddy up with a black guy, they'll turn on you and take ur women." lol
Plus, Romero loves racial slurs. Nigger, Jungle Bunny, Spick, etc. lol
Don't forget the ever popular CHOCOLATE MAN! But remember, Peter did not kill Stephen or Roger, he shot them after they had turned. Both were killed due to zombie bites, which occured due to their own stupidity. Roger was being amazingly careless (and was going a little nuts!) and Flyboy let his greed encourage him to commit a dangerous act that was unnecesary and fruitless. Peter stayed level headed and cool under pressure.
Originally Posted by Minerva_Zombi
Example 3 : (Day of the Dead) - John portrays the stereotypical "lazy Nigger". He sits back and does nothing and lets all the white people do the work while he sits reading books about film negatives and ****.
Given the situation, would you have done any different? He wasnt a scientist, any "help" he might try to offer would just slow the rest down. And besides, Logan was off his rocker, John Amplas was trying to feed them "beef treats", and we never actually see Sarah doing much of anything, so what were they actually accomplishing anyway? John wasnt a soldier either. I am sure they wouldnt want some civilian acting as though he was good enough to do their jobs with no training. Both times when Sarah was at the "zombie corral" bad things happened. The first time, Miguel dropped his stick, and the second time the strap broke. Maybe without her there, Steele wouldnt have been trying to impress her by ordering Miguel around, and would have realised he didnt want to risk his own life by having Miquel be the "zombie wrangler". John trying to get involved with this would have only mucked things up even worse. And besides, would you want the only guy who could fly endangering himself, thereby endangering your chances of air escape if needed?
Originally Posted by Minerva_Zombi
Example 4 : (Land of the Dead) - The town of survivers is like 0 % black. But, Big Daddy is the only black guy in the movie. Big Daddy leads the zombies into the city and destroys everything.
Is this Romero's way of saying that Blacks and immigrants will invade our country and destroy our pure white country? lol.
Don't forget, Kaufman's butler dude was also black! Even in a post apocalypse world, the black man has to be a servant! Of course, it could be equally inferred that all the black people had survived, and were living in relative safety somewhere else, which is why none of them were at the Green. Remember your horror movie rules....black people tend to GET THE HELL OUT OF HARMS WAY, not say "gee wonder what that noise was? I better go outside and check it out. I am sure that mass murderer that the news said was IN MY FRICKIN NEIGHBORHOOD would not be outside right this second...."
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Except they are both anti establishment , and other the only ones with useful skills. Though Torrez is a soldier and he is one of the only reasonable ones. So they aer not lazy, just doing their own thing,
You could just as easily say that John is espousing the collective ideals of many people who are not 'in power' in that they just want to be left alone, to be happy and live their lives without the interference of those in power putting them to labor for their warmongering schemes. 
It's all how one reads into it, but isn't Romero a bit of a hippy anyway? Not tie-dyed through and through, but more along the lines of sympathetic due to the ideas and current events of the era in which he was coming of age.
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