Back...basically

Ok, So with school starting back up next week, and a schedule that allows me to write a little more, I will be back in full swing in about a week. However, I was reading an article today about Michael Vick. Apparently the NAACP doesn't think that Vick should be banned from the NFL for his Dogfighting business. Now, I am not unreasonable, I mean personally, I think she should be banned, I despise cruelty to animals. I think that his "Company" did horrible things to the dogs, I believe that he probably did kill some of the dogs himself in horrible ways, and he deserves the jail time and the fines for it. I also think that he should be cut off from the means in which he created the business. Therefore I think he should ban from the NFL, and not get any more money from them or any sponsors.

However, the NAACP has said that Vick is getting too much bad press. They said that he would get this much bad press if he would have killed a human. They also, even though they don't condone dogfighting, don't understand the uproar about dogfighting. According to them, what is the difference between dogfighting, and hunting deer and other animals.

Well NAACP, I will tell you what the difference is about this case. First, Vick is getting a lot of bad press, if he would have killed a person, he still would have had a lot of press because he is a sports star. However, if you want to compare apples to apples, Vick would have gotten a lot more press if he would have had an illegal underground fighting ring, where humans fought to the death, and in test fights, if they didn't fair well enough, then they would have been killed. That my friends would have been world headlines.

Now, you want to put dogfighting and hunting in the same boat. I am a hunter, I go out, find where the Wild Animals are, track their habits, set myself up in a blind, and I hunt them. That is not the same as training domesticated animals to fight each other to the death. I mean I suppose I could capture two deer, put them in a small enclosed space, not feed them, beat them, and try to train them to fight each other, but I really don't think people would go for that, infact I bet there would be an uproar for that as well.

NAACP I don't think Vick is getting bad press because he is black, I think he is getting bad press because he did horrible things. Stop trying to justify what he did with weak arguments that make no sense. If you are truly looking out for the Advancement of Colored People, don't try to hold up a Vick as a martyr, as a man who has done wrong but could turn around. Hold him up as an example of what people aren't suppose to be, and if you decide to be stupid, like Vick and his friends, then you are going to pay the consequences.

Am I saying Vick is a lost cause, No. But don't rally behind him, find someone who is doing something worth while, trying to feed the poor, help the homeless, not someone who is brutally murdering dogs because they are too weak to fight to the death in some pit.