Take a flying fucking leap Micheal Erik Dean PHD. Your rabid idiocy gives brand new credibility to the ancillary meaning for PHD… ‘Piled higher and deeper’ and yes that would be the extension of - BS = bull shit, and MS = mega shit degrees.’ You’ve buffed and oiled soooo much more shit onto gaining a doctorate with this stance!?! How could you? Yours is clearly a doctorate in stupidity. You demean every professional daring to use your credentials! For you to dare suggest that your perceptions of how Michael Vick is being treated are academically based is disturbing! What a load of dung! When a black man, heck when any person (man or woman, white, black or green) especially someone who is banking and reaping huge social rewards as a beloved sports role model, tortures animals and is caught torturing animals, there’s no possible legitimacy in any claim of racism whatsoever. That’s like the long misunderstood, just trying to make a living, defense that white folks use when they put up the “poor white trash” defense for running puppy mills.
People of every race love animals. Suggesting blacks don’t or some how love them differently so that cruelty is easier for blacks to indulge in/accept is ludicrous. Despising and criminalizing those who torture dogs is simply not and NEVER has been an issue of race. It’s an issue of human decency and compassion. PERIOD!
Cock & dog fighting, puppy mills… frankly I do see a disparity in who gets presecuted, but I suggest that is less a factor of law enforcement’s motives than it is the demographics of the target criminals. Here in TX at least, I can tell you that uneducated (poo white trash) Whites milk the lucrative puppy mill end; Hispanics milk the cock fighting realm, and blacks own the pitt bull fighting dog realm. Each cluster is equally marginal.
Who buys? Who consumes? I wish I could grap. Virtually none are prosecuted.., so consumer stats don’t really exist.
There are thousands of cultural, ethnic and racial factors that impact economic and human choices. Michael Vick as a privileged person, cannot claim any legitimate economic, cultural or ethnic motive though … If he’s stupid enough to claim race as his motive he insults and indicts billions of people as intrinsically/genetically detached from life. You know this.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Produce real numbers to support your isinuations please… ok so, we both know you can’t. To suggest there is some racial, cultural, ethnic or even economic strata that explains, and so, “legitimizes” cruelty to batter, electrocute or torture any living animal is NOT a racial, ethnic or cultural issue, it is a human issue.
Michael Vick was NOT singled out because he’s black! He was singled out because as a public, extremely entitled, beyond well paid human being, he carried on horrible & despicable activities for no possible reasons beyond greed or inherent cruelty.
Are black people alone being accused or found guilty of this? Of course not! More whites than any others are caught, convicted & driven undergound for puppy mill running … more blacks for pittbull fighting rings … more whites & hispanics (depending on state - Whites far exceding Hispanics) for cock fighting rings. The animal cruelty arena especially is one of the least racial demographically!
This whole crock of dung makes me ill!. Who on earth could defend, never mind dare use such stupid, blatantly ridiculous, little more than self serving grasps at distracting, ridiculous, academic blither to chatter away what it really means that a man making millions of dollars based on love and respect for his ability, secretly maintained what we can only pray was a superficial connection to a crew that brutalized dogs. I’m just not going there, that this poor misunderstood extremely graced black man represents anyone but himself - a criminal who’d be guilty whether he was an entitled athlete or not.
growl!