Original sentence: All four of Romero's "Dead" movies have featured a major black male character surrounded by whites, but race has conspicuously never been mentioned.Romero states that the he cast Duane Jones in the role of "Ben" in "Night of the Living Dead" because he was the best actor available, but his consistency over the four films in this regard is enlightening.The fact that the major black character in "Land of the Dead" is the leader of the zombies is often viewed as the first indication of the film's theme of peace and rapprochement, and also that he does not wish the audience to consider the zombies to be villians or even unheroic
Edited sentence: The pairing of a black male protaganist with a white female heroine was consistent in the first three movies of Romero's "Dead Series"