Maryland Girl Scouts Too Black To Have Opinions On Animal Abuse, We Guess
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Political Basics: Yelling At Kids Never Helps
Maryland Girl Scouts Too Black To Have Opinions On Animal Abuse, We Guess
They look pretty dangerous. Probably sell those abortion cookies, too.
Somebody needs to let the people of Cecil County, Maryland, know how the plot of an uplifting Capraesque movie is supposed to go: An intrepid local journalist uncovers a scandalous bad thing, the Powers that Be don’t do much of anything about it, and then when little kids take up the cause, everything gets fixed, and maybe even the bad guys are so moved by the kids’ innocent idealism that they vow to turn from evil and do good things, and then a lesbian gets her wings. But that’s not what happened this time at all! Instead, Girl Scouts testifying against awful conditions at a local animal shelter were rewarded by shelter supporters yelling racial insults at the girls, which would really make a lousy ending to a movie. We’re still hoping there’s another reel to run where the plucky girls triumph after all. This story’s not as bad as that Idaho guy who non-racistly slapped a baby on a plane a couple years back, but it’s pretty damn bad.
So the dealio in Cecil County is that the county contracts for its animal control services with a place called “A Buddy For Life,” and a local muckraking journalist has run several stories on the gross conditions at the shelter — for instance, a county councilor who’s a licensed veterinarian paid a surprise visit and “found unremoved feces, odors and many dogs with serious “mange” and other skin conditions. ‘It was a mess,’ he said of the facility.” The paper also ran a more recent story saying that the shelter had persuaded welfare recipients to fulfill their “welfare-to-work” requirements by working at the shelter as “volunteers,” and that despite the fact the county pays $60,000 a month to the shelter, the place spent suspiciously small amounts on food.
Local station WMAR reported Tuesday that the girls of Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Troop 176, horrified by the stories, decided they wanted to do something about it, so they went to speak at the April 29 meeting of the Animal Care and Control Oversight Commission; during the public comment period, several of the girls asked questions about conditions at the shelter. Yay kids, getting involved and trying to do some good!
Then after the meeting, while the girls were standing outside with their homemade “Be Kind To Animals” signs, a bunch of buddies of A Buddy For Life decided to yell some racist insults at them, because obviously anyone who’s against the shelter is The Enemy:
“They were saying, ‘Go back to Baltimore, where you belong,’ and they started pointing out me and my sisters,” said 13 year old Arianna Spurlock, who is African-American.
“I was like sad and mad at the same time,” Amayah said.
“They were calling us, like animals and stuff,” Arianna said. “And I didn’t really know why because if they are calling us animals, aren’t they supposed to be helping animals?”
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