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Columnist: 'America seems hell-bent on repeatedly lynching Vick'

Sep 20, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT

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The Trentonian, a 30,000-circulation daily based in Trenton, N.J., has an interesting dichotomy within today’s pulpy editions. First comes the Page 1 banner head, Vicktory! Dog killer starts first game since leaving prison, leads Birds past Lions. That’s rather blunt. Then comes this opinion column by L.A. Parker, in the same issue: Condemnation of Philadelphia Eagles’ Michael Vick shows racist America placing pets before blacks. Excerpt:

The Vick description occurs because despite time served for whatever crime he committed in a dogfighting scandal, despite community service, and despite a thousand repentances, he never will receive forgiveness by PETA-peddlers (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) nor the millions of Americans who place poodles before humans, especially black homo sapiens.

America, land of the free and home to Native American genocide, slavery, gender persecution, segregation, and a litany of other indiscretions that affected millions, appears hell-bent on repeatedly lynching Vick, retelling his dogfighting connection until he screams Uncle Tom.


I’d like to point out that Mr. Parker has it exactly backwards. It was Vick and his cohorts who lynched dogs; hanging them from trees, in addition to attaching jumper cables to their ears, killing them by slamming them to the ground and crushing their skulls, drowning them (slowly) in pools, strangling them with their bare hands and shooting them. Not to mention the ones which died fighting each other for “entertainment.” Because his Eagles teammates didn’t witness any of this in person, they found Vick suitable for the Ed Block Courage Award in 2009 (this is true).
The reason I mention Mr. Parker’s column is that when you peel away the racial hyperbole, you have something that’s quite representative of the way that most Eagles fans — and many people in general — feel about Michael Vick; that’s he’s paid his debt to society, and we should just forget about the past and play some football.

“He did his time, he served his debt to society,” said Malcolm Newton to the Delaware County (Pa.) Times. “At the end of they day, they’re only dogs. He wasn’t murdering humans.”

Said Juanye Bradley: “I was never mad at him. It was a silly decision, but he went to jail for it.”

OK, that’s your opinion. Mine is that Vick is a borderline psychopath who was one stiff prison sentence away from possibly graduating from canines to humans. But Juanye is right: He did go to prison for it, he served his time, and now he’s allowed to join society, have a driver’s license and go to the movies on Friday night (although Lord hopes it’s not to see Going the Distance).
But given that, it now becomes my decision as to whether I want to watch him in an NFL uniform. That’s my choice, and it doesn’t make me racist if the answer is no. In my opinion, it makes me human. So in conclusion, you suck, Vick, and you always will. My loathing of you is acute and colorblind. And Mr. Parker, don’t cry “racist” until you’ve seen the contents of my CD collection, and my soul.
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Eagles 2010: Fans still not ready to forgive Vick [Daily Times]
Condemnation of Philadelphia Eagles’ Michael Vick shows racist America placing pets before blacks [The Trentonian]

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  1. Holly - Sep 20, 2010 at 10:11 PM

    Amen, and Amenn again, Mr. Chandler. This kind of wickedness does not slip away from one’s soul, just because they have ‘served’ their time. Vick did nothing but serve his own self-centered, haughty, way of life.
    It is so very difficult to again read the horrific, unspeakable crimes that Vick committed and ordered others to commit; but more importantly, there are voiceless, innocent creatures and some likely still subject to this kind of sick debauchery. They need OUR voices to try to protect them, IF and WHEN we can.
    “But given that, it now becomes my decision as to whether I want to watch him in an NFL uniform. That’s my choice, and it doesn’t make me racist if the answer is no. In my opinion, it makes me human. So in conclusion, you suck, Vick, and you always will. My loathing of you is acute and colorblind.” so very well said.

  2. FrankZappa - Sep 21, 2010 at 1:54 AM

    i actually agree with you when you aren’t writing about pop music…Vick is a dogmurdering bastard, they should have cut his nuts off, maybe that would be a reasonable punishment…only a psycho could ever do what he did, and his degree of psychosis is so great that it probably only qualifies him for globalist politics…of course, to join the globalists he would have to be a pederast and satanist as well

  3. purevilone - Sep 21, 2010 at 9:18 AM

    No matter what he does or says, he will always be a cruel and inhumane “person”. No matter what he does or says, he will always be viewed as a vile individual. Just because he “served his time” does not make him a better person. I’ve always fancied that what goes around comes around and some day he will be taken down…far down…for the pain he inflicted on the many innocent dogs he controlled. May he some day suffer just as they did. No, not in this life time will I ever watch the Eagles play a game as long as he is glorified as being on their team! He is an evil person who did evil things to innocent creatures!

  4. Jim Guida - Sep 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    I feel someone needs to defend this psychopathetic brutalizer of innocents. Ummm, well, at least he wasn’t Hitler. Unless you replace “Jews, Gypsies, and the Crippled” with “Rottweilers, Bulls, and Mutts,” in which case, yeah, he was a small-town Hitler.
    I really don’t know for whom I should pray more – him and his ilk or me and my need to forgive.

  5. Skids - Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM

    Rick, I agree with you. This has nothing to do with racism; frankly, I am sick of that excuse for everything. He is a piece of trash that does not deserve to have the job he has. I don’t care if he’s green, he is still a dog murdering bastard, and I have the right to that opinion. Tell Mr. Parker to quit throwing the race card.

  6. david saint - Sep 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    You obviously dont go to church much rick chandler. Maybe you should try, your life will be happier and less hateful. Further, should we change your name to Jesus since your so perfect? I thought not. Why not just understand another human being made a terrrible mistake, for which he did time in prison for, and has moved on to become a better person…is that concept really that hard to grasp for a grown adult such as yourself??
    He sure didnt suck on sunday by the way….

  7. tony metler - Sep 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    I agree with Saint David, although I do know the difference betweeen “your” and “you’re.”
    We must embrace Vick as an athletic icon of virtue and wonder, regardless of his douchebaggery, because, after all, “he sure didnt suck on sunday.”
    Saint Jude may be the patron saint of lost causes, but Saint David is the patron saint of lost punctuation.

  8. juliusherbing - Sep 21, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    Just wondering how many of you Vick haters support the war? 4400 dead Americans in Iraq for no reason vs. 100 dead dogs? i have 3 dogs, but Choice A is the more important issue about which we should all be upset.

  9. Rick Chandler - Sep 21, 2010 at 3:33 PM

    I wouldn’t watch Dick Cheney play for the Eagles either.

  10. Berr - Sep 21, 2010 at 6:03 PM

    I would be more concerned if he was going to see Amores Perros

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