When I see Mike Vick, I don’t see a murderer. I see a human being who provided the forum for the sport of dog fighting for rich businessmen. A Sport much akin to boxing, wrestling and extreme fighting, except our society says it’s illegal. I don’t see anyone coming after HBO for violating human rights and promoting violence. Why, because the “dog” is a dumb animal? And do you really think Boxers are smart? It’s amazing what we view as vicious behavior these days. Two people beating each other to a bloody pulp or hunting cute little deer is o.k., but killing a beaten dog is barbaric. This is a world where special interest groups can create an atmosphere of emergency for their particular causes of interest, and it’s usually the benign areas of our society that receives the attention. Genocide, rape and racism, are not worthy enough causes to be unquestionably illegal and enforceable. People found precedence in representing animals. Again, the penalties for hurting an animal can be more severe than hurting human beings. Not even the Catholic Church received such penalties when they created the atmosphere for the abuse of children. All they received was a fine. They’re still practicing. They’re still generating income. They’re still providing the atmosphere for children to be molested, but no one is trying to destroy them. Maybe people think the belief in God stops because the Catholic Church goes out of business. Those people should question who it is they truly worship.
Mike Vick had a choice to not engage in a practice that was illegal. I’m not absolving him of any wrong doing, because killing is wrong. My problem lies in the double standard and the attack of this Black Man. I questioning the extent of his penalites when his crime was not against another human being. George Bush, among other atrocities, took us into an illegal war and is speedily reaching the end of his term without being taken to task. It’s so late in the game, that if the Demoncratic party, or the United States Nations would try and prosecute George at this point, it just wouldn’t matter. What would it change? The lives forfeited for the success of his demonic agenda would not be miraculously resurrected. Not to say that any crime committed should be ignored because our president sets a low standard. I just question the importance of the lives of dogs compared to a human life. The lives of dead and injured soldiers and Iraqis mean more to me than a billion dogs. Mick Vick’s life, is worth more than the lives of a billion dogs. I don’t know Mick Vick, but he’s part of the human family. That’s my immediate, knee-jerk reaction. The man is Human. The thought that this human being who abused and murdered animals can now be considered an animal, when all George Bush is considered is a bad president, is beyond me. How do you get there? Well, I surmise that the people who call Mike Vick an animal never saw him as a complete human being to begin with. That brings me to the three-fifths human clause in our constitution and the stigma attached to being a descendant of slaves. It makes me wonder if this antiquated view of Blacks isn’t now a genetic imprint in both Blacks and Whites to view Black people as barely human, so when we commit a crime, we’re animals that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Even when a crime is commited against us, law and reason blur and up to extensive contemplation and discussion before justice is, if at all met. It's amazing to me that this Mike Vick situation has opened and shut in less time than the Sean Bell Case, Jena 6 or even the R. Kelly case.
I hear the glee in news reports regarding this Mike Vick case because in the end, they get to lynch another nigger. And I hear the assimilation of Blacks when they jump on the PETA bandwagon when in the end, they still don’t sleep with their animals, nor swap spit with them. And I know nothing has changed. I know that the hypocrisy grows stronger and racism hides under the folds of causes that counter our African Heritage and are made to make us look vicious, uncivilized and closed-minded. Mick Vick should be fined, given probation and allowed to earn and given the space to elevate his psyche enough to realize that life should not be extinguished, even if it is a dog or a bug. It would make more sense to have people who abuse animals fund animal shelters for the upkeep of strays instead of euthanizing them in the end. That way, everybody lives, everybody’s happy.
Mike Vick had a choice to not engage in a practice that was illegal. I’m not absolving him of any wrong doing, because killing is wrong. My problem lies in the double standard and the attack of this Black Man. I questioning the extent of his penalites when his crime was not against another human being. George Bush, among other atrocities, took us into an illegal war and is speedily reaching the end of his term without being taken to task. It’s so late in the game, that if the Demoncratic party, or the United States Nations would try and prosecute George at this point, it just wouldn’t matter. What would it change? The lives forfeited for the success of his demonic agenda would not be miraculously resurrected. Not to say that any crime committed should be ignored because our president sets a low standard. I just question the importance of the lives of dogs compared to a human life. The lives of dead and injured soldiers and Iraqis mean more to me than a billion dogs. Mick Vick’s life, is worth more than the lives of a billion dogs. I don’t know Mick Vick, but he’s part of the human family. That’s my immediate, knee-jerk reaction. The man is Human. The thought that this human being who abused and murdered animals can now be considered an animal, when all George Bush is considered is a bad president, is beyond me. How do you get there? Well, I surmise that the people who call Mike Vick an animal never saw him as a complete human being to begin with. That brings me to the three-fifths human clause in our constitution and the stigma attached to being a descendant of slaves. It makes me wonder if this antiquated view of Blacks isn’t now a genetic imprint in both Blacks and Whites to view Black people as barely human, so when we commit a crime, we’re animals that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Even when a crime is commited against us, law and reason blur and up to extensive contemplation and discussion before justice is, if at all met. It's amazing to me that this Mike Vick situation has opened and shut in less time than the Sean Bell Case, Jena 6 or even the R. Kelly case.
I hear the glee in news reports regarding this Mike Vick case because in the end, they get to lynch another nigger. And I hear the assimilation of Blacks when they jump on the PETA bandwagon when in the end, they still don’t sleep with their animals, nor swap spit with them. And I know nothing has changed. I know that the hypocrisy grows stronger and racism hides under the folds of causes that counter our African Heritage and are made to make us look vicious, uncivilized and closed-minded. Mick Vick should be fined, given probation and allowed to earn and given the space to elevate his psyche enough to realize that life should not be extinguished, even if it is a dog or a bug. It would make more sense to have people who abuse animals fund animal shelters for the upkeep of strays instead of euthanizing them in the end. That way, everybody lives, everybody’s happy.
