PETA says urging African Americans to boycott KFC:
Is it me or is this an incredibly racist tactic? It’s like PETA is saying “If anyone knows about fried chicken it’s them there colored folks”. While there at it why don’t they extol the virtues of watermelon to the black community. Here’s PETA’s logic behind this…
“African Americans know oppression and have a natural empathy for others who are oppressed,” Bruce Friedrich, director of vegan outreach for PETA, said in an interview. “And the fact is that what happens to chickens for KFC is the worst cruelty that anybody can possibly imagine.”
So they weren’t happy with comparing chickens to the Holocaust now they’re comparing them to slavery? If I was black I’d be highly insulted by this. I mean no one in the black community is going to fall for this, right?
The campaign from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which criticizes chicken chain KFC for the treatment of chickens before slaughter, will feature comedian Richard Pryor in billboards in African American neighborhoods in Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington.
Other prominent African Americans including Russell Simmons, founder of hip-hop label Def Jam, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and Princeton University professor Cornel West will offer their support for PETA’s campaign.
Messrs. Pryor, Simmons, Mfume, and West should be ashamed of themselves. You’re comparing the plight of your people to fried chicken. Just further proof that PETA will use any means necessary to force feed their agenda down other people’s throats as if it was handed down by God. Mr. Pryor and friends are nothing more than sell outs.
