Night of the living dead

As the discussion on this film was very short, there were a few things that stood out in the film that I would like to point out:
1. The characters in the movie were mostly male including the zombies. The main female character appears to be ditzy, helpless, hysterical, and weak-minded. I couldn't help but notice how everyone called her a "girl" because of this behavior.
2. Although there is racial politics in the movie, the only person that seemed level headed was the Black man. He was proactive about reacting to crises and protecting everyone. He is also the only person of color I saw in the movie.
3. I noticed that the older white man in the movie kept accusing the Black man of being violent and a maniac and could sense some racial undertones in those accusations. This man never trusts the black man and this lack of trust is what gets everyone else killed.
In addition, when the young blonde "girl" was describing her initial experience with a zombie at the cemetery she spoke of him in a deviant manner.
The news radio that everyone listened to was interesting. The zombies were first described as "unknown assassins" performing "mass homicides" that transcended into them becoming "misshapen monsters", "murder happy", "savage killers" and "they may look like people but act like animals".
The change of dialogue towards the end of the movie is the zombies become things not people and are therefore expendable. The team that is eliminating the zombies says "they're just dead flesh and dangerous...burn them". This team acts like they are pest control killing a pest problem.
4. In the end, with all the underlined racial tones it is fitting that the last survivor is the black man and is shot dead as he is mistaken for a zombie. The black man is no longer seen as a human being but a "thing" that needs to be put down. Although this movie contained terrible graphics and acting the dialogue was all too clear. I could easily relate this movie to the treatment of the victims of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan. They were seen not as people but as "things"...military targets in need of extermination. What is  ironic is the American pilots who dropped the bombs were actually the "unknown assassins performing mass homicides". I cant help but relate the movie back to that time even though this movie was released during the Vietnam war.