The NAACP says there ain't notin wrong wit dog fightin and interstate gamblin!?

Question

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/22/vick/index.html

I bet this guy has had his share of O.E. fueled wife beating evenings.

Any organization who can find justification of or appologize for Vicks behavior and actions is simply without worth.

Answer 1

I want to know when we are going to have the NAAWP!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

truthfully?
The only reason The NAACP is standing up for him is because Vick is famous and a huge in the media with not only this, but his football carrer.
I agree that he's a talented football player, and he has made mistakes in the past, but the NAACP wouldn't care if it was some other fellow who has never been on t.v. or the media. This is an opportunity for the NAACP for flex their media muscles in the press to make them look like they actually care. Please don't get me wrong, I am certian when the organization was started it was in the best of intentions and I am sure quite a bit of good has come from it. But lately, it seems like they along with other "icons" for "civil rights" only come out and flex their muscles and ruffle their feathers when it's someone allready famous and in the media spotlight is being persecuted for thier most probably deserved crimes. Face it, if it was a normal person arrested for this for what Vick has done, they would of been in jail and that would be the end of it. No stories in the press, no spotlights, no 24 hr news converage. NOTHING. It's because Vick is rich, famous, and an icon in the sports world, that the NAACP is out and about. No other reason why. It is truely too bad that such organizations and institutions have lost their way... It shouldn't matter if Vick is white, black, oriental, hispanic, or any other color in the human species, a crime is a crime. If he loses his NFL carrer because of this, then he is to hold the burden of that loss. If you commit the crime you must pay the consequences. Now watch when he does get canned from the NFL. There will be a second uproar.

Answer 3

What makes me angry is that the NAACP, an organization I have usually supported, felt the need to weigh in on this, subtly trying to use the race card in this issue, when it was never about race. I watched R.L. White's comments, and my first reaction is that the man (White) doesn't have the intelligence level required to head-up such an organization as the NAACP, as evidenced by his idiotic remark about how there would have been less uproar had Vick killed a human being rather than a dog, and then to go on to somehow compare dogfighting to hunting, which for me is just completely out of line. Responsible hunters are IN NO WAY to be compared to cruel, inhumane, sadistic dogfighters. Plus the fact the White can't even seem to read a plain English sentence at anything above the level of a fourth-grader. He may be in political power, but he isn't very smart.
To me, this isn't about race. I don't give a damn what color Vick is. What bothers me is the arrogance and lack of scruples and lack of intellect and compassion inherent in ANYONE who engages in dogfighting. And finally, Vick should NEVER be allowed to play pro sports again, due to the fact that he made such sinful amounts of money at something that does NOT in any way move the world into a better future (sorry, but football is way down on the list of important things we can do for our world, like curing AIDS or cancer or finding ways to feed the hungry and homeless) that he should never be given the privilige of financial wealth again. He abused his position and his good fortune at the cost of innocent animals, not to mention betraying the trust of the young people who admired him.
And he did it all for money, and to get his Jollies.

Answer 4

That guy is an idiot! This doesn't have a thing to do with race! Michael Vick committed a horrible crime, and he should be punished, just like anyone else of any other race should be if they had committed the same crime, famous or not. Of course it is drawing all kinds of bad publicity towards Vick. That is because Vick is a really famous athlete who was looked up to as a sports hero to millions of people ( a lot of them children). What I can't understand is why people have to be so greedy. This man had it made. He had a great contract and his own line of tennis shoes coming out. He had millions of dollars, and could live in the lap of luxury for the rest of his life. That he still needed to be involved in a bloodthirsty, cruel sport such as this, not to mention participating in something so barbaric as actually hanging and drowning the poorly performing dogs, says something to me about him as a human being. He is getting no less than his just desserts. As for the comment about deer hunters, I am absolutely speechless.

Answer 5

The NAACP did not say this. One guy at the Atlanta chapter shot his mouth off.
This is not a race-thing. He is a criminal. If he were a white athlete, he would be in a pickle, too.
I am fed up with black athletes hollering race when they get caught doing illegal stuff. If they weren't DOING it, what would they holler? If they know they are being watched, why shouldn't they be careful and impeccable with their reputation?
They don't holler race when they get PICKED for the NFL and paid astronomical fees to play a GAME! PLEASE!
He is in a pickle because he is a ROLE MODEL who gets paid (partly) to BE a role-model and this is how he shows his respect for his position.
I believe dog-fighting is wrong because of the violent WAY these domesticated animals are killed. Torn to pieces, disemboweled, and left to bleed to death is not exactly like shooting a deer for food from 1/2 mile away.
I am also not nuts about hunting, either. I think it is inhumane often, too. I have seen my share of dead deer bleeding over the hood of a truck in a Humpty-Dumpty parking lot. Not a pretty sight. Hard to explain to a child, too.
Vick should do his time in a real prison, and be back in the NFL-IF other convicts have been allowed to return. No special rules for him-white or black, pink or polka-dot.
If not, then he's out and can continue his career with the Canadians.
He knew he was taking a risk, when he took it, so now he's is paying the price. That's why it is called a RISK!

Answer 6

Were people get confused, is making this about dogfighting. Yes it is horrible to fight and kill dogs. I am a pitbull owner, and it is people like him that make it impossible for me to take my dog for a walk without getting dirty looks. But this is about gambling, racketeering, and tax evasion. I can't remember his name, but the NFL has set a precedence a long time ago by banning someone for life from football for being caught gambling, not even on football. So rightfully, Vick should never play again. But I'm sure he will, probably not as a quarterback, because that position is too hard to return to after missing three years which he probably will, but maybe a returner, or slot back.

Anyways, I'm rambling. Why is everybody making this a black and white issue. Michael Vick was practically the face of the NFL. Don't you think that if the NFL, or the players thought for a second that he was being persecuted for being black (which the majority of the league is), they would have called the feds out on it.

Maybe being white, I don't see the racism, and I accept that as a possibility. But this guy did horrible things, in horrible ways, and he should go to jail.

Answer 7

You didn't bother to read the piece you cited, did you? Where it clearly says the NAACP is opposed to dog fighting?

What they are also opposed to, however, is the public crucifixion of a sports figure who made a mistake. Athletes who have been convicted of drugs and drunk driving and beating women are playing today- yet this man, because he was involved in dog fights, is going to lose a career.

Their point - whether you agree with it or not - is that this lacks a sense of proportion.

Your point - such as it is - has nothing to do with the NAACP.

Answer 8

what is he on about? hunting deer is acceptable because you don't put the deer up against each other to fight first. you make a quick kill, and then you eat it. i keeps them from overpopulating. it is nothing like that b!ch vick did. he killed dogs with his bare hands after making them brutally fight each other, and people think they can compare that to killing a deer?

Answer 9

"White also said he didn't understand the uproar over dogfighting, when hunting deer and other animals is perfectly acceptable."



Oh......My.......God.....

Answer 10

get your facts straight the naacp stands up for civil rights