“District 9″ is a science fiction film about aliens that park their mother ship over Johannesburg, South Africa and are treated by humans like, well, uh, aliens. They are treated less than human. These aliens look different than you and I, so that makes it easier to see they aren’t as good as we are. Are the aliens good or bad? Are they dumb or smart? Well, like most people groups, they are all of those things.
The film is probably the best picture of “racism” I’ve ever seen. If not for the simple reason that what most call “racism” is actually based on look, class, geography or ancestry, but not race. Because all humans are part of the same race, the human race. So the racism in District 9 can accurately be called racism. But it’s the calmness and calousness that this racism takes place that really caught me off guard. When you think that you and your people are better than some other people, it is amazing what you are capable of. The obvious example of this is Nazi Germany. But another worthy example is “Planned Parenthood.”
Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger and is now a major provider of abortions. Rather than say much about Sanger’s intentions, why don’t I just share some of her famous quotes:
• “”We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
• “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
• “Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.”
• “More children from the fit, less from the unfit—that is the chief aim of birth control.”
District 9 features an “abortion” scene. It is done so nonchalant, which sadly, has become the attitude of many towards the abortion of human babies.
Back to the Nazi connection. Just a few days after seeing “District 9″ I saw “Inglorious Bastards,” Quentin Tarantino’s version of how World War II should have ended. I don’t think I’m ready to write about Tarantino’s movie yet and tie it into this conversation, but it certainly applies.
All in all, “District 9″ is violent, has bad language and at times I had to look away. Can we say those same things about racism?
