Evolved thinkers or bigots? Connemara officials should decide

“You’re not our kind. You’re not allowed” is the message that continues to come from breed societies that hold inspections and fail animals that don’t measure up. The sole premise of inspections is to cast aside animals that don’t meet some arbitrary criteria written down on a piece of paper by people who have anointed themselves as god of the breed to make sure an animal’s leg or jaw doesn’t get an inch out of whack.

I can only conclude that these organizations are full of the same kind of extreme conservatives who would prefer a world that was white and run by males, with the women in the kitchen and any diversity an ocean away.

To anyone who would beg to differ, I would say: You can’t be a bigot and evolved in the same breath.

You can’t say, “I care about others and I embrace those who are different” and then cast off a whole line of horses that did nothing wrong other than genetically grow bigger or in a slightly different way than the outline on your paper horse template.

You can’t say, “I am NOT a bigot; I EMBRACE diversity,” and then try to stamp out diversity at every turn in this breed.

If you’re a bigot, at the very least own up to it. By the very act of picking up your clipboard and heading to your inspection, you are screaming, “I am a bigot; I’m here to eliminate diversity!”

America historically has found a way to be evolved and embrace diversity, providing equal status to all its citizens, even over the objection of half the states.

The American Connemara society seems to have forgotten where it lives.