August 26th, 2009 
Duane Slavery and the Holocaust are still fair game.
What am I talking about?
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 25 (UPI) — A U.S. animal rights group announced it will change a controversial Florida billboard that critics said compared overweight women to sea mammals.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Monday it will change the Jacksonville billboard, which reads: “Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.”
“I think it’s rather rude,” a St. Petersburg woman said. “Yeah, we all need to be a little bit healthier and exercise a little bit more, but that sign is very rude.” (more…)
PETA was called out by some activists over the years for comparing animals to the plight of Jews in concentration camps and Blacks during slavery and the civil rights era (one person even sued them last year). But to this very day, if you go to the PETA website you will still see the same comparisons being made.
On their blog, you will find the post “Meat Equals Slavery” (dated 6/11/09).
Martin Luther King Jr. is also used to make the sale. His quote “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” is used in ads and is one of the first things you will see on their online multimedia presentation “Liberation”.
But unfortunately you are gonna find negroes who will gladly sell our legacy. People like:
“Animals in circuses are robbed of their freedom, beaten, and denied everything that’s precious to them,’ says civil-rights leader Dick Gregory. ‘Just as the actions of enlightened people broke the chains of human slavery, families today can help stop the enslavement of animals by staying away from circuses that feature animal acts.”
“The essence of the novel is expressed in the forward by Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, when she states that the pain felt by humans and non-human animals is the same pain and that ‘the animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.’”
“It’s a clean beautiful ad but the message is clear from that one photo, from that one image that all living things should have the right to live….I’ve realized how important it is that we really take responsibility for the environment, for treating animals with love and care just like we would any human being. I really do believe that all things that have been given life deserve to live life. It’s no different, in my opinion, from slavery or the Holocaust it’s just that we’re not dealing with human beings, we’re dealing with animals, but it’s still a living thing.”
Other notable Black folks (Russell Simmons, scholar Cornel West and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, etc.) have also thrown their support towards PETA.
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