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You canât compare me to a freaking cow (Peta: Blacks = Livestock)
hat tip: Michelle Malkin NEW HAVEN â A two-hour animal rights demonstration on the Green Monday sparked outrage instead of sympathy from the public. "This is the most racist thing Iâve ever seen on the Green. How dare you," roared Philip Goldson, 43, of New Haven at the protest organizers at Church and Chapel streets. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a national animal rights group, posted giant photographs of people, mostly black Americans, being tortured, sold and killed, next to photographs of animals, including cattle and sheep, being tortured, sold and killed. "I think it is an apt comparison," said Josh Warchol, 26, of Wallingford, president of the Southern Connecticut Vegetarian Society, which is aligned with PETA. PETA officials said they had hoped to generate dialogue with the shocking photographs.
Special Project: Piss off the NAACP... PETA wants people to stop eating animals, stop using them for clothing, stop forcing animals to entertain people (as in a circus) and stop animal experimentation. Carr said she doesnât want animals sold or treated as property either. I wonder what she thinks of that horse in Seattle.... The controversial display, which is on a national tour, is intended to drive home PETAâs point. However, critics said the organizationâs demonstration backfired. One man demanded that the NAACP get involved immediately. Five minutes later, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the state and Greater New Haven chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, arrived at the scene, surveyed the photos and blasted the organizers. "Once again, black people are being pimped. You used us. You have used us enough," Esdaile said. "Take it down immediately."
"You canât compare me to a freaking cow," shouted John Darryl Thompson, 46, of New Haven, inches from Carrâs face. "We donât care about PETA. You are playing a dangerous game." Paul Tomaselli, 46, of North Branford took exception to an exhibit that included a photo of a black man being beaten to the ground by a white man with a stick while a white mob gathers. Next to that photo was one of a man chasing a seal across the snow with a club. "I think heâs right," said Tomaselli, who is white, in support of Thompson. "To compare people to animals is an unfairness to people." The display, "Are Animals the New Slaves?" is on a 10-week, 42-city tour that started in early July. Todayâs stop: Scranton, Pa., then on to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. "This is the most hostile audience weâve had," said PETA volunteer Ben Godwin.
Eight of the 12 banners compared the suffering of black Americans to the suffering of cattle, sheep, an elephant, a seal and a rooster. Other banners showed Native Americans exiled from their homes, children in a factory and men in a counter-demonstration against womenâs rights. A photo showing a concentration camp inmate with a number tattooed across his emaciated chest was juxtaposed against a shot of a monkey in a laboratory with a number branded across its chest. "I have relatives who were in concentration camps," said Alex Reznikoff, 47, of Newtown. "I think this detracts from PETAâs message. It doesnât make me think about animals at all." One might say Peta screwed the pooch on this one..... Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-08-09 |
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