Chicken lives are more important than Black ones in Minnesota. In the past few weeks, animal welfare activists have disrupted three of the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff games in an attempt to bring awareness to the serious matter of poultry. Activists decided to use this stage to get the public's attention due to a cruel and unjust system that mistreats chickens. The values of ordinary Americans are being disrespected by the fact that factory farming businessmen such as Glen Taylor are getting taxpayer subsidies, said Direct Action Everywhere media contact and activist Matt Johnson. The animal activists want the Timberwolves owner to step down and donate millions as they are upset he owns a factory farm that caused an outbreak of the bird flu from chickens in March. More than 5 million birds were killed by a ventilation shutdown that the group deem inhumane, and Taylor should set a powerful example by stepping away from NBA ownership and refusing to take any subsidies related to the HPAI outbreak. The protestors have tried to glue their hands to the court, chained themselves to the basket stanchion, and tried to run on the court. Where were these people when Philando Castile and George Floyd were killed?
I guess their deaths weren't enough for them to take such actions.
Working for change has always been a constant struggle. Many people won't fight for a certain group. Black people are that group.
Do you know what harms the bird flu more?
The police can do whatever they want with Black bodies.
The bad behavior by the police in Minnesota began long before Taylor bought a chicken farm. According to The Guardian, a police chief in the 1980s called his officers "damn brutal, a bunch of thumpers", in a story about the decades of police violence that have occurred in Minneapolis that failed to spark reform.
A former high school football coach received a lot of support after he used to kneel in prayer on the field. When black people kneel on football fields to bring attention to police brutality, they get blackballed, not taken seriously by the highest court in the land.
The uproar occurred when Black people dared to say that their lives mattered, as so many in white America tried to hijack that movement to make it include their lives, as if they haven't been the only ones that mattered in this country. That was followed by police saying that their blue lives were more important than their race.
Some people are acting like chickens are more important than people who eat them. Black people love to eat chicken, and that's the old stereotype. The most ironic thing about these protests is that they are taking place on courts in a Black league that used to have Black Lives Matter.
I think that is the reason the protestors picked this sport. If Black lives don't matter to them anymore, they might as well focus on the lives of chickens.
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