Across the Vick Divide: The Chasm Is Larger Than Ever |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 12:40 am |
| Tags: across the vick divide, chuck smith, espn, hsus, john goodwin, michael vick, nfl, neal boortz, racism, selena roberts, terrence mathis, terrence moore |
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Well, I was right about ESPN’s town hall meeting, “Across the Vick Divide.” Yesterday, or more accurately, this morning, I wrote the following: The guests will provide a gawking television audience with overblown depictions of Vick in a sure attempt to reduce him to a thing lower on the evolutionary tree than any Simian primate. Their praise of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be fawning - the new bwana keeps the animals with veldt origins separate from civilized onlookers. The panel will depict all black people who cried out for temperance rather than an automatic judgment of Vick's guilt before the facts of the investigation were known as a monolithic voice of unthinking emotional reactionaries in the tried-and-true tradition of loaded racist verbiage. There will be side discussions about various athletes who defended Vick and, in their rabies-laden eyes, downplayed dog fighting; side discussions about athletes - black athletes - in general and dog [ Full article ] |
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