TSN today had a small clip of NAACP defending Michael Vick while taking cheap shots at Tim Donaghy. NAACP president R.L. Price said, "he is being prematurely punished by his team, the community, and corporate sponsors". White then took several cheap shots at the NBA saying racism in sports is still rampant and how the NBA referee who cheated was "put in the back pages" on purpose.
I guess according to Price, Vick deserves to be innocent until proven guilty but Donaghy does not because of the colour of his skin? The NAACP should just remain quiet. In its rush for sufficient camera time, the NAACP conveniently forgot that nobody has compromised Vick's constitutional or civil rights. "If Mr. Vick is guilty," Price said, "he should pay for his crime. But to treat him as he's being treated now is also a crime."
The NAACP, in this regard, is guilty of that comfortable "picking on the brother" mentality that perpetuates a culture bent toward reflexively painting itself as the perpetual victim of social injustice.
Vick doesn't need the NAACP watching his back. He's getting his due process more than the average defendant. Say like Tim Donaghy?
It's been nearly two weeks since the Feds indicted Vick and his associates on dogfighting conspiracy charges, but it's only now that the NAACP felt compelled to render its thoughts. What took it so long? I hope it's not because it was blindsided by the spreading national outrage over animal cruelty. There's a singular distaste surrounding the alleged depravity listed in the federal indictment that separates this criminal investigation from the other high-exposure cases like Kobe Bryant and the Duke lacrosse rape allegations. Whether or not you believe his story, Bryant's defense was that it was consensual sex with a hotel employee.
Did the pit bulls buried on Vick's property offer their consent for such perverse manipulation?
I guess according to Price, Vick deserves to be innocent until proven guilty but Donaghy does not because of the colour of his skin? The NAACP should just remain quiet. In its rush for sufficient camera time, the NAACP conveniently forgot that nobody has compromised Vick's constitutional or civil rights. "If Mr. Vick is guilty," Price said, "he should pay for his crime. But to treat him as he's being treated now is also a crime."
The NAACP, in this regard, is guilty of that comfortable "picking on the brother" mentality that perpetuates a culture bent toward reflexively painting itself as the perpetual victim of social injustice.
Vick doesn't need the NAACP watching his back. He's getting his due process more than the average defendant. Say like Tim Donaghy?
It's been nearly two weeks since the Feds indicted Vick and his associates on dogfighting conspiracy charges, but it's only now that the NAACP felt compelled to render its thoughts. What took it so long? I hope it's not because it was blindsided by the spreading national outrage over animal cruelty. There's a singular distaste surrounding the alleged depravity listed in the federal indictment that separates this criminal investigation from the other high-exposure cases like Kobe Bryant and the Duke lacrosse rape allegations. Whether or not you believe his story, Bryant's defense was that it was consensual sex with a hotel employee.
Did the pit bulls buried on Vick's property offer their consent for such perverse manipulation?
