Obviously, this bill is NOT going to pass. People can buy cigarettes in New York City, after all.
The bill is just a way of calling more attention to a cruel industry that most sensible people of ALL colors find pointless. Killing baby seals? Endangered animals? For VANITY?
Colangelo's article pointed up how insidious the fur industry is.
The reporter (yes, there still ARE a few) dug up the fact that some lobbyists hoodwinked a few ignorant blacks into showing up in fur hats. They "promoted a free bus trip to City Hall with a hot boxed lunch and a chance to win a $250 Amex gift card."
Shouldn't sombody be taking a knee on the exploitation of black people, and the stereotype that for a box of fried chicken they'll sell their souls?
"Here, put on this fur hat. Sulk and tell the world that in addition to all the other social ills that you people, and ONLY you people suffer, wearing fur is a BLACK THANG..."
Why, because fat ignorant Aretha Franklin wore huge sheaths of fur to hide her flab? Because she was dumb enough to fall for that status symbol? Bob Barker countered this long ago: "If you want to show people you have money, pin hundred dollar bills to yourself."
Wearing fur as a status symbol is as moronic as smoking a cigar ("which looks like a big black dick," my friend George Carlin memorably declared). You got money to burn? Then burn it. Money burns with less stink than tobacco.
I thought this race card game was done.
Here comes today's Daily News.
An idiot ex-congresswoman (fortunately, EX-congresswoman) has tried, in her ignorant and illogical way, to defend the fur industry for being pro-minority, and specifically, friends to the BLACK COMMUNITY. You could say the same thing about the sweat shops where Jewish women toiled at the turn of the 20th Century. Oh, and Lawdy Lawdy knows, Burger King and KFC are right up there with Dr. King in caring about black people. All those wonderful minimum wage jobs!
A few rich stupid people in furs...very few...and that's supposed to convince us all that a huge percentage of black people find fur-wearing a racial issue. They do it because they're proud of their skin color. Aretha, you bought that hugely expensive dyed orange mink coat because it matches your skin? Really? Or is it because you're just an insecure fatty who wants to hide her blobs and at the same time, show the world you're the QUEEN of soul, and a QUEEN has to be in an expensive coat?
The reverse is more like it. Blacks, knowing the brutality of slavery in the South, and the way they were being considered beasts to be burdened and beaten, would understand that nobody should be treated like an animal. Including animals.
Idiotic Ina is an embarrassment, playing the race card to parrot fur industry propaganda.
I'll meet you after the break. You can read this garbage, or scroll down for my summary and rebuttal.
There you have it, as immortalized by the Daily News. The most remarkable thing about it, is that it has no typos. This IS the Daily News, after all.
Also in the news today: ALABAMA'S NEW LAW THAT OUTLAWS ABORTION.
This came after GEORGIA'S NEW LAW LIMITING ABORTION TO ALMOST NO CASES AT ALL.
The South Will Rise Again, huh?
Where's Idiotic Ina to declare THIS a racial issue? To declare that the most likely people getting abortions would be black women? Black women who have enough kids living in poverty and might want a few less, especially if the Daddy happened to be a drunken rapist.
Nah, don't kill babies, but kill baby seals. That's an issue for black people to get behind.
Briefly, let's knock down this idiot's excuses for killing animals in the name of CIVIL RIGHTS.
I start toward the end, where Ina declares that wearing fur is a "choice" and should always be a "choice."
Yeah? Go down to Georgia and Alabama and talk about a woman's right to choose. About a woman's right to remove a growth from inside her body; one that could affect her health or destroy her life and doom her to poverty. Ina, do you see a bunch of fur-wearing black women standing outside an abortion clinic offering financial help? I don't. Where are these women to say: "I'm so rich, because I have this nice fur coat on, that I'm also rich enough to adopt and pay for your baby after it's born. So don't have an abortion, leave everything to ME, and I've got the thousands of dollars to pay for this child being in the world."
Yes, we should all have a right to choose. And Ina, being part of the corrupt congress for 10 years, should know that this law is just a publicity stunt and that nobody's going to create an impractical law that can be easily circumvented. That's why stores still sell cigarettes and guns.
"I arrived in America from Jamaica in 1958...my first job was at a local fur shop."
So? Somebody else from Jamaica went to work in a whorehouse. Should those be legal?
Other women from Jamaica worked in a variety of menial factories. Burger King wasn't around then, but there were just as miserable minimum wage jobs. That fur shop could've been a cheese shop, a John's Bargain Store or a Times Square penny arcade.
Hey there, Ina, know what I miss? Penny arcades. Pinball. Ski-ball. Why were you sitting on your Jamaican ass when the Times Square arcades began to disappear? A lot of black people worked in those arcades, and a damn lot of them enjoyed playing the games in the arcades, just as I did.
Why is it you didn't give a flying fuck about Bally, and the other companies that employed black people to build pinball machines?
Why is it that you care so much about the white-dominated fashion world, where you're not likely to see a Jamaican woman waiting on fashion models and telling them how lovely that mink coat is?
The truth is, is it not, that blacks who buy fur tend to be like Mike Tyson, and go to some ridiculous all-night place in Harlem? That's where Mike was shopping when he got into a brawl with Mitch Green.
Writes Ina: "Today, the industry still provides jobs to more than 7,500 New Yorkers at hundreds of small businesses across the five boroughs..."
Yeah? How many of those 7,500 are black? FEW. And can't those New Yorkers find another line of work?
"Get another job" is what we're telling all the immigrants from India who used to own newsstands. Newsstands are dying a natural death because people don't buy magazines anymore, or smoke that many cigarettes. Let the fur industry die a natural death, too, abetted by people raising everyone's awareness about CRUELTY.
Just as we tell people not to smoke because it's ugly, stinky and dangerous, we tell people NOT to wear fur.
And YOU make it a racial issue. An issue of pride:
"For many of us, fur is not just a coat. Buying and wearing fur has significant cultural and social meaning, showing that economic attainment and equality is possible."
You can't take pride in owning a Cadillac? That was a huge black stereotype at one time. How about taking pride in flashing a huge diamond ring, or a ton of ridiculous bling on your teeth and dangling from your ears?
You admit that "Instead of wearing real fur...we can wear fake fur..." but your argument against THAT is that "fake fur is made from plastics and chemicals."
Colin Kapernick's helmet was made from plastics and chemicals. Football players abandoned leather helmets several generations ago.
Idiotic Ina has to, of course, snigger about the hypocrites who eat meat and wear leather:
"protecting animals...it’s still okay for New Yorkers to wear leather, which is made from animal skin, and to buy and consume factory-farmed meat, and eggs and dairy from less than humane animal facilities...."
How dumb does it get. NOBODY is eating mink. NOBODY is eating jaguar, raccoon or beaver. These animals are being trapped solely for VANITY. For FUR COATS and silly hats and "trim" on a jacket or decoration on ugly boots.
"As a fur worker all those years ago, I remember the pride on the faces of my customers when they could come in and buy their first fur..."
How about some Harlem whore taking pride that a guy had an orgasm in her mouth?
Fight for legalization of all activities that help the predominantly minority-driven sex worker industry!
Pardon me for being as illogical as you are, Ina. That was a joke. Sort of. Almost. Except a whore is more useful than a fur coat. Warmer, too.
Ina, how about black people working at a factory that makes synthetic down jackets?
"Today I see that look in my own community, where buying and wearing fur symbolizes our rise above poverty and oppression, our attainment of the American Dream. From Beyonce and Cardi B. and Aretha Franklin on the big stage..."
You're talking about witless ignorant people here. Beyonce, Cardi B. and the late Aretha were as ignorant about cruelty as the white bigots who whipped the black slaves.
"Their cries are human."
That's a line from "Island of Lost Souls," and, Soul Sister, the sounds you will hear from an animal caught in a trap would break your heart. If you heard it. You think Beyonce hasn't averted her eyes to a PETA poster? You bet she has. The same way that slave masters didn't care about their cruelty either.
You know who cared? Abraham Lincoln. There are letters we have, in which he described how awful he felt seeing slaves shackled, and hearing their cries. He did something about it. He wasn't another asshole saying, "Well, we have to protect the Southern cotton industry...and black people wear cotton shirts you know..."
Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Playing the race card for an excuse makes it all the more odious.
As the PETA posters say, there is no excuse for wearing fur. NONE.
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