Posted on 08/19/2009 4:47:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The strange and sad case of Michael Vick got a bit stranger this week when the newly-signed Eagles quarterback appeared on 60 Minutes -- complete with a spokesman from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) -- to deliver his obligatory mea culpa to a waiting world. What makes this incident stranger than most is that America's love of animals, specifically dogs, has trumped the heretofore indestructible use of racism as a defense for wrongdoing and so has not saved Mr. Vick from the wrath of millions.
Accusations of racism have long been employed to excuse the behavior of thugs and gang-bangers who happen to populate the sports and entertainment worlds. Take the case of Allen Iverson, NBA superstar and long-time bad-boy. In trouble since his high school days when he served four months in a correctional facility for his conviction in a felony mob assault case (later overturned), this paragon of virtue once quipped, "associating hip-hop styles of dress with violent crime, drugs, or a bad image is racist." Yet, as so poignantly pointed out by columnist Bryan Burwell,
What has happened is that we let the real African American culture get buried under the darkest element of a hip-hop generation that glorified and perpetuated all the worst racial stereotypes our parents, grandparents and great grandparents took their lifetimes to erase...Now they come glamorizing thug life and prison fashion, legitimizing derogatory racial insults into the mainstream, and convincing an entire generation that the only measure of true blackness is a hard-core gangsta edge, and anyone who rejects this is either hopelessly out of touch or a sad Uncle Tom.
And, of course, should any whites agree with the courageous Mr. Burwell, they would most certainly be called racists...
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So in the hierarchy of victimhood, pets trump blacks, blacks trump homosexuals and homosexuals trump heterosexuals! I recall reading recently this analysis applied to the altercation between Perez Hilton and some black hip-hop artist in a club somewhere.
I blame the NFL. They continue to coddle lunatics like Vick. The closest association MV should have with the NFL is selling hotdogs in the stands during the games.
That’s it! The “moral” dilemma and hand wringing when competing “victims” clash is a lesson in liberal (both left and right liberals) mantra confusion.
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