3 episodes into this show... and it's insanely racist?

Now, I'm not saying the writers are white supremacists or anything, but for a show from 2015 you'd expect a little more examination of the harmful tropes they're working with.

To start with, like the original series, this show is set in a city with a significant black population but an almost entirely non-black cast. In true horror tradition, the 2 most prominent black characters both become zombies within the first 3 episodes. And these characters professions? Drug dealer and graffiti artist. No comment.

Then we get to the riots. This is a difficult subject to pull off in the first place, but they seem to intentionally be referencing the LA race riots, but in this case the cops are the good guys because they're actually fighting a hidden enemy that the public doesn't know about. And the military, for the most part, acts reasonably and rationally, despite what we saw in the original TWD with them shooting civilians indiscriminately in Shane's flashback. I don't really know how you manage to have worse politics than the original series.