*Activists and animal lovers alike seem to have pissed some folks off. Royally. These infuriated people hiss, “how dare you petition, grieve, cry and rally around the killing of a damn lion; while bigger, more important issues such as black folk being blatantly disrespected by racist cops and the American judicial system barely causes you to blink.”
And for those of you who may mistake that for a question.
Don’t.
It’s a bold ass, indignant, statement!
In case you’ve been living under a very large rock since late July, you know that ‘Cecil’ a 13-year-old lion that was regarded as the most popular tourist attraction in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe was strategically lured from that park; and shot with a bow and arrow by American dentist, Walter Palmer, who had paid the USD equivalent of $55,000 for the “privilege’.
The wounded animal was later located, slaughtered, beheaded and skinned.
The dentist, who has since closed his Minnesota practice and gone into hiding, has received death threats on his life.
But instead of the giant feline’s death being just another terrible story on the news, it became a movement; sending shock waves throughout social media and causing animal activists and animal lovers to take to the streets with signs advocating their rage against its killing.
Cecil’s death even moved an audience that has been silent on the more pressing issue of racial injustice in America. People with the power to effect change.
The Senate.
After the lion’s death, senators placed a new proposal on the table: an Amendment to the current “Endangered Species Act.”
True, and shameful, that no such act or action has been taken to acknowledge what is happening to black people in America today. The senate hasn’t stepped in to insist on any Amendments to the Constitution; or even local laws that were put in place to protect people.
But then again, did you really expect them to?
Can we ever force people to be as passionate about our cause(s) as we are?
That’s a rhetorical question.
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