I love 24. My son, a sophomore at the time, got me hooked on this action television drama. Agent Jack Bauer was with the first (television) black president, which I believed helped lay the foundation for a diverse population become accustomed to a black man in that role.
Jack is suspected this season of being a rogue agent. Teh character is someone who will do whatever is necessary to save the coutnry from terrorists. This season the terrorists are Africans.
We are supposed to believe that an African Hunta, can send his agents into the U.S. to wreak havoc. They pay U.S. officials from the F.B.I. to Congress to betray the country. On top of that , next week the terrorist general, (close to home because some African Presidents were once military leaders) comes to the U.S. and kidnaps the president in the White House.
These aggressive activities against the U.S. by a hostile African nation justifies the U.S. military going into the coutnry. The problem is that the show maybe predicting the future. The boottomline is that the show has seemingly been predictive before, and if it is now it could mean that the U.S.’s new Africa Command is going to at a moment’s notice go in an takeover.
That’s been a fear of some African nations, who would not agree to house the new command. It’s been operating out of Germany, while looking for a home.
What about the increasing number of African oil producing countries, now up to ten, including new discoveries in Ghana. What if the U.S. feels that its interests are threatened and that the military ruler is a tyrant.
See what’s being portrayed is not going into Rwanda, or Darfur to end genocide, but going into somewhere like Nigeria, to secure resources.
I love 24; it’s action. I really loved when David Palmer was the president. But truth has been stranger than fiction before. I just hope that this season’s storyline is not a forerunner of things to come.
What do you think?
