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Racism and the American Pit Bull | Current Affairs

I found this link in a post by @batcemetery in the notes of a huge anti-PETA post that came across my dash

http://batcemetery.tumblr.com/post/175902124390/peta

It details how the pit bull’s “superpredator” reputation didn’t exist until the 70s – when they became associated with Black and Latino people in the inner cities. Before that, pits were considered friendly (see Petey in The Little Rascals in the 1930s) and even uncommonly heroic.

Myths were created to paint pits as fearful beasts with a natural propensity for violence, such as the “locking jaw” myth.

(If you’re wondering what this has to do with PETA, the organization supports banning, ie killing, all pit bull dogs).

Read the article if you have a chance – this is how deeply ingrained societal racism works.