day two-hundred-and-eighty-eight - black squirrel

i don't want to talk about this

© jem barratt

what i do want to talk about is why melanistic subgroups (the black ones of species) are the chosen ones to be eliminated from the world.

example one - only BLACK llamas are sacrificed in bolivia, and first they are dressed up in woollen tassels and trotted around a festival. mean. what's so good about the other llamas huh?

example two - united kingdom citizens are meant to report sightings of BLACK squirrels in order to track the species and get rid of them. sure they're part of an invasive species, but the species in question is the GREY squirrel. so why target only the blacks huh?

animal racism.

xj

p.s. you may consider two examples to be inconclusive and you'd be quite right.

day two-hundred-and-thirty-three - xmas panther

on the FIFTH day before xmas, jemma realised she uses caps too much (and also she drew a panther card):

© jem barratt

i particularly like this guy because he's so cool about having his tail wrapped in fairy lights... 'what of it?'

what of it indeed mr xmas panther. or should i say mr black leopard?

no. that sounds stupid. and i don't care if panthers are just reverse-albinos, they're still cool enough for me to treat them as their own animal. also i haven't drawn a normal leopard yet so it doesn't matter.

xj

p.s. how cool would it be if there were 'panthers' in other species, like kiwis and snakes. then we could pit good (albinos) against evil (panthers) in a huge animal fight... if that were acceptable and ethical of course

p.p.s. it's not

p.p.p.s. also didn't that da vinci movie teach us that albinos are maybe the evil ones

p.p.p.p.s. maybe i should have read about melanistic animals before i wrote this...