if anyone's legitimately offended, as opposed to trying to distract from the issue at hand, i'm sorry the phrasing offended you.

i'm happy to consider alternate phrasings. perhaps i should have said "black men aren't the only animals that have rights," since people are animals and not things. i think that one might have gone over like a lead ballon, though. i guess i could have said that "animals have rights too," but then i wouldn't have been able to make my point that this is part of jux and your reactionary defending of any black man, regardless of how heinous an act he may have committed.

so i'll stick with my wording and say, just because you heard it one way doesn't mean it even approaches cism.

point remains. people (if the lack of adjective make you feel better) aren't the only things that have rights.