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PETA Reopens Black Demeaning Animal Cruelty Display
One month after suspending an exhibit comparing animal cruelty to slavery, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is resuming the traveling show on the West Coast.

PETA came under fire after a man began yelling that the exhibit was racist during an Aug. 8 showing in New Haven, Conn. National civil rights groups said the comparison demeaned blacks. The Animal Liberation Project involves a display of panels juxtaposing graphic images of slavery and other human abuse with pictures of chained animals. In one panel, titled "Hanging," a white mob surrounds two lynched blacks swinging from a tree. A nearby picture shows a cow hanging in a slaughterhouse.
Priceless and boneheaded all in one.
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk defended the decision to continue the show, even as she acknowledged the display's impact. "I unequivocally apologize for the hurt and upset that this exhibit has caused some of its viewers," she wrote in a statement Monday. "That said, I would fail in my duty if I allowed this exhibit to disappear."
She shouldn't sully the word 'duty'.
Newkirk argued the same mind-set of "human supremacy" that she said caused slavery has a role in animal abuse.

Her message fell flat with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has called the display a ploy to get attention. "I'm not surprised," NAACP spokesman John White said of the decision to resume the display, declining to elaborate.
But are you mad?
PETA, based in Norfolk, apologized earlier this year for a campaign comparing the suffering of Holocaust victims with that of factory animals. That campaign ran from February 2003 to October 2004.

The Animal Liberation Project was scheduled to resume its tour Tuesday in Portland, Ore. Stops also are scheduled for Seattle and Spokane, Wash.; Boise, Idaho; and Salt Lake City. A PETA spokeswoman, Dawn Carr, said Tuesday that the decision to continue the display followed weeks of reviewing e-mail and completion of an online poll.
First the gays compared themselves to black history, now it's cows and little bunnies.
Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-14
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