Blacks object to cows roaming near tribute to former slave

SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | December 21, 2006 | Olivia Munoz

[DogByte6RER]

Sheeesh!

Talk about thin-skinned!

It's my understanding that in countries like India, cows are worshipped as gods. Maybe these thinned skinned grievance groups should look at it from the point that this historical park is being graced by the presence of a herd of divine cows.

Makes you kind of wonder...which came first, the bovine or the slave?

[Junior]

They could always BUY the tracts...

[PeteB570]

Hmmm, 1908.

I wonder if any of the original settlers had cows?

I would think cows along a fence would be better than condos. They should be fighting to get the cows in and keep them.

And I said all that realizing that cow yards and feed lots can be pretty messy and smelly. Just make them be put as far away from the main park area as possible.

[spintreebob]

2,000 acres. Clearly this mega-rich agribusiness should be paying more taxes and driven into needing a government subsidy. The beauty of a government subsidy is that when the Agency of Enlightened Ecologists adminsisters the money, they can say jump and the subsidized will jump.

[Sols]

"It's my understanding that in countries like India, cows are worshipped as gods."

Hindus revere the cow as a matriarch who gives nourishment and asks nothing in return. The admiration of cows is religious rather than nationalistic and it is not worship.

So now you have a new understanding. :)

[DogByte6RER]

lol

That's harsh...

How about just calling the herd "Kwanzaa Kows" and then everybody will be happy?

[Thrownatbirth]

The original settlement was started in 1908 by Allen Allensworth, a former slave and Army chaplain, and others set on founding a town where blacks – little more than a half century out of slavery – would not be second-class citizens.

Allensworth would have never existed without cattle - it was the state's major railroad transfer point for grain and cattle heading for Chicago in the early 20th century.

[TexasCajun]

"Kwanza Kows are sacred!"

[bannie]

It is tough to have a dairy for a next-door neighbor. Imagine the smell of cow poop--24/7.

[yankeedame]

Hindus revere the cow as a matriarch who gives nourishment and asks nothing in return. The admiration of cows is religious rather than nationalistic and it is not worship.

And it is also the livelihood of certain, perfectly respectable Hindu folks in India to usher herds of these cows to the border of neighboring Muslim countries, who purchase said cattle for more conventional useage.

[DogByte6RER]

Behold! It's Kwanzaa Cow!

[DogByte6RER]

And another Kwanzaa Cow...

[freedomfiter2]

It is tough to have a dairy for a next-door neighbor. Imagine the smell of cow poop--24/7.


You only smell it for the first half hour, After that you get used to it.

[DogByte6RER]

Kwanzaa Cowboy?

[Sols]

They don't have to herd them out? It's legal to slaughter cows inside of India and you are right that slaughterhouses are usually owned by Muslims. Member of the pariah caste and other non-Hindu religions also slaughter cows and do leatherwork inside of India. As well as lapsed and less traditional Hindus, I'm sure.

India actually has US$1.7 billion/year leather trade. It is certainly not the most popular trade in India, and your Hindu neighbors would be shocked to hear what you do for a living, but it's quite legal.

[TexasCajun]

Kwanzaa Kow Keeper

[Centurion2000]

The only problem is the pastures were next to a state park that pays tribute to a freed slave who founded the community, raising the ire of environmentalists and blacks who objected to the pollution and stench that would come with the cows.

The blacks and the enviros can STFU unless they want to BUY the pastures themselves.

[DogByte6RER]

Hmmm...

I'll bet that Kwanzaa Kows sh-t don't stink...