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salukiblue · 08-05-2015 10:31 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinio....html?_r=1

...The American tendency to romanticize animals that have been given actual names and to jump onto a hashtag train has turned an ordinary situation — there were 800 lions legally killed over a decade by well-heeled foreigners who shelled out serious money to prove their prowess — into what seems to my Zimbabwean eyes an absurdist circus.

PETA is calling for the hunter to be hanged. Zimbabwean politicians are accusing the United States of staging Cecil’s killing as a “ploy” to make our country look bad. And Americans who can’t find Zimbabwe on a map are applauding the nation’s demand for the extradition of the dentist, unaware that a baby elephant was reportedly slaughtered for our president’s most recent birthday banquet.

We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people. Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.

And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger...

snowtiger · 08-05-2015 10:41 AM

Perhaps the Zimbabweans would like us better if we sent in a team of Christian Missionaries. 02-13-banana

http://csnbbs.com/thread-744133-page-2.html

~~MileHighTiger~~ · 08-05-2015 07:48 PM

It's telling in this country that a dead lion gets more publicity than three native Americans executed in Montana.

snowtiger · 08-05-2015 08:16 PM

(08-05-2015 07:48 PM)MileHighTiger Wrote: It's telling in this country that a dead lion gets more publicity than three native Americans executed in Montana.

Do tell.

My great grandaddy was Choctaw, btw and taught in a Choctaw School in Mississippi. The Choctaw chief saw the wave of the future. So he traded the U.S. gov Choctaw lands for schools; but when the Gov saw how well the Native American kids were doing, they shut down the school.

The saga of the Native American in this country has always been telling.

#IndianGivers.

TigerBill · 08-05-2015 09:46 PM

(08-05-2015 07:48 PM)MileHighTiger Wrote: It's telling in this country that a dead lion gets more publicity than three native Americans executed in Montana.

So start a thread and inform people.

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