Vick case thread....please behave

Only in America.

 

No, that thread was about an asshole-torturing dog.

 

I usually find editoral cartoons very mundane and broad, but this is a great, great one from the New Orleans Times Picayune.

 

It must be since it's been posted twice in the same thread.

 

Umm ... it's not on this thread. Was there another?

 

Believe it or not, the first thread got locked.

 

You're right. The cartoon was posted on the nuked thread.

 

Why can't people just keep their friggin mouths shut and leave other people alone!

As for Vick, toss him into an enclosed cage with two or three starving pit bulls and let justice be done. That is if he's proven guilty.

Even if he's not, he should never be allowed to own a pet again.

 

John Kerry apparently thinks the NFL cares about his thoughts on the issue.

http://www.sportinglife.com/nfl/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=international_feed/07/07/21/GRIDIRON_USA-Vick.html

 

I am far more interested in how it all came apart for Vick and why it keeps
coming apart for too many black athletes in America. The ultimate symbols of
black athletes in our society used to be men of substance and positive image.
Men with social conscience and resolve such as Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, Jim
Brown, Bill Russell and John Thompson used to be our heroes. They carried a
burden and deep-rooted responsibility to portray themselves with a sense of
dignity, pride and purpose. Even the cool, counter-culture rebels such as
Muhammad Ali and Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood for something more
meaningful than a multimillion-dollar shoe deal.

But somewhere between Jackie Robinson and Michael Vick, things got all fouled
up. "Street cred" became the anthem of the modern black athlete, this misguided
notion that the only way to appeal to the young demographic of the
sneaker-buying public was to adopt the negative attitudes of the thug life
popularized by black hip-hop/gangster rappers. According to the 18-page federal
indictment, Vick is accused of sponsoring the sort of gruesome dogfighting
enterprise that is readily identified as a part of the dark side of that
culture.

So that's how someone like Michael Vick came into existence. He got hijacked,
and we all let it happen. We let it happen by passively condoning this mess. We
did it when we turned Allen Iverson into a marketing icon and rejected someone
like Grant Hill because he lacked "street cred." We allowed it to happen every
time we gave Vick the benefit of the doubt when he kept stumbling and offering
weak alibis for his stupidity. We allowed it to happen slowly, insidiously over
the past 20 years. The problem is the hijacking of African-American culture by
the hip-hop generation that has helped glorify every rotten, foul and
disgusting racial stereotype it took generations to eradicate.

The full Bryan Burwell column:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/bryanburwell/story/4A107E54CA14CDB18625731E00136DDF?OpenDocument

 

great job by my old friend bryan. outstanding. 8) 8) 8)

 

Was Grant Hill really rejected for a lack of street cred? Or was it more the injuries that stalled his endorsement career?