Exterminated

Let me start by saying that I don't normally dream, or as some psychoanalyst would put it: I have less vivid dreams and don't recall my dreams during my REM sleep.  Anyways, I had a crazy dream during my REM sleep last night about whole populations of people being herded for extermination.  Bare with me as some of the details are fuzzy to me now in my awakened state.

I recall being in a mountainous region, something similar to Arizona or somewhere.  I say Arizona because there was red clay and plateaus for miles and also they say we don't  dream about places we've never been or people we've never seen.  So since I've been to Arizona once before I assume that was setting of this dream.  There was a group of us, faces that I didn't recognize, being chased through these mountains by some rangers I guess I would call them.  Next thing I remembered was seeing thousands of us, and by us I mean black people, camping out in tents.  Some people were just sitting, perched on ledges, still unable to escape because of armed guards patrolling the area.  We were given an excuse, via television, on why this was happening this way and that if we remained calm over the next few months final destination will commence and our lives will return to normal.  After a few weeks the number of captives went from a few thousands to hundreds of thousands and people were beginning to get restless and defiant.  At one point a group of people attempted to storm one of the guard stations only to be answered with shots fired into the crowd by the other guards.  As I sat on the ledge watching the confusion, and turmoil it dawned on me, "why would you house thousands of people for a few months only to return them back to their "normal" lives?": unless you're going to exterminate them and use the mountains as a burial ground!

Then I woke up in panic.  And if you're wondering, no, my TV wasn't on while I slept.  The reason I felt to post this is because it all seemed so real and vivid that you don't know how relieved I felt when I realized it was only a dream.