OK so today I gave a speech on being a veggie person. I described the terms "Vegetarian" and "Vegan" to everyone so they knew the difference. Then I went on to explain the reasons one would be a veggie person. The reasons I talked about were as follows in this order..... Treatment of animals both the testing and treatment of farm animals, being green, health and how it can provide more food for the hungry. But to end of my speech I said this quote. . . "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men." ~Alice Walker, American author, The Color Purple. One of the black ladies in my class got offended by the fact that I mentioned black in my speech. When I said that I was not saying that how blacks were treated back in the day by whites is anything like how humans treat animals. I just meant that humans are not anymore above animals than a white is to black people or a man is to a women. It had nothing to do with slavery or any of that. I know that how an animal is treated is different that how a black person is and was treated I get that. My argument to that though is that just like how I do not know what it is like to be black, you and the rest of the human population do not know what it is like to be an animal. But either way you were placed somewhere below first class because of who you are just like how an animal is thought of as second class to humans due to the fact that they are an animal. For the record I hate the fact I am white because I have to live with the fact that my skin color are the ones that put all you blacks through hell. Not that there is anything such as white pride but if there was I'd have none.