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| PETA Reopens Black Demeaning Animal Cruelty Display | ||
| 2005-09-14 | ||
| 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."
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.
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 |
| #8 #2: PETA just never learns. Things like this just piss off the rest of normal America. I'm pissed off, I'm not Black and nobody has ever accused me of being "Normal" either. These idiots need a hard "Life Lesson" such as having to produce their own food or starve. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-14 15:05 |
| #7 They don't generally belive animals should be pets at all and most of them would be happy if humans died off in a great plague. My Mom always said "Practice what you preach" So Die PETA scum. Won't bother me at all. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-14 14:52 |
| #6 Robert Crawford, I'm not sure if they publicly explained but here is the gist. PETA think it is more ethical to destroy animals than to have them live in an unfit home. They don't generally belive animals should be pets at all and most of them would be happy if humans died off in a great plague. They are a confused bunch. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-09-14 12:59 |
| #5 I have to admit it: I'm a human supremacist. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-09-14 11:35 |
| #4 Boy - would ya look at the haunches on that little heifer over there? |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-09-14 10:26 |
| #3 Has PETA managed to explain why two of its staffers were killing puppies and kittens and dumping their bodies into a dumpster? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-14 09:34 |
| #2 PETA just never learns. Things like this just piss off the rest of normal America. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-14 09:15 |
| #1 ALL THE KOOKS ARE COMMING OUT!!!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-09-14 08:28 |