Sports columnist Dan Wetzel has played the race card:
“Not long after Vick got inside the courthouse – and in a scene that was repeated when he left less than two hours later – the two sides clashed in shouted voices and dueling signs.
White people screaming for justice; black people asking if they still remember everything justice entails.
That a case involving dog fighting can break so quickly along racial lines is a testament to how it bubbles below just about everything in this country. We all wish it wasn’t so, including both sides here. No one wanted this. Almost no one even wanted to acknowledge it. But it was there, plain as day in black and white.
“I wouldn’t say it’s a racial thing,” said David Williams, an African American, in a hopeful tone. “It’s not racial. But for these animal rights people to take one person and crucify him isn’t fair.”
The thing is, the “animal rights people” here were an estimated 90 percent white. The pro-Vick/due process crowd was probably 95 percent black.”
Dan, here’s a clue: The animal rights protesters don’t worry about their jobs, their next meals, their bills or whether they’ll be discriminated against. Their beliefs are followed with fanatical religious fervor. They’re in the Taliban wing of the professional protester crowd. But in this case, Michael Vick is wrong and dog lovers are right.
So Dan Wetzel brought race into this, huh? And here I thought that Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton would be the first to holler race.
And, Victoria, I agree with you about the PETA crowd and their ilk. They are usually dead wrong on most of the stuff they impose themselves into, such as the Schumacher debacle. But in this case, they are right on the money.
Michael Vick needs to be suspended by the NFL until such time as this thing is resolved in the courts, then, after he is convicted and sent off to the slammer, as he surely will be, the the NFL should ban him for life, such as the MLB did to Pete rose 18 years ago.
And as an aside, the NBA should do the same with Tim Donaghy.
One other thing: If the NFL does not ban Vick for life, and the NBA does not ban Tim Donaghy for life, then Pete Rose should have his ban lifted immediately. Pete Rose did nothing as bad as these other two did.
PETA (PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS)
Should be outside of every ABORTION CLINIC in America stopping the Murderous act of Abortion, just like they do with Michael Vick style Dog Murdering.
Of course “HUMANS” don’t matter to leftist Communists and Animals do.
RUSH LIMBAUGH mentioned this and I agree. To answer the question DOG HATER or Victim. Its to early, but not to PETA, and most of the DRIVE BY MEDIA.
Hmmmmmm — I wonder If Socialist Liberal PETA
will protest outside of the Socialist Liberal NAACP or maybe the other way around now that the Socialist Liberal NAACP has come out in defense of PITTBULL Murderer Michael Vick.
PETA is not usually dead wrong, but they do use tactics I often disapprove of (which is why I no longer give the group money).
Well I bet Vick Gets More Time Than Those Illegal aliens get For rape murder ID theft Or Spousal Abuse Who Says That This World isn’t Messed Up