I know I am walking straight into a heated racial debate here, but this Michael Vick situation is riddled with hypocrisy. On the one hand we have Vick's (mostly black) defenders working from two angles: a) dogfighting is a part of black culture, so to decry it while saying nothing of white sports that involve animal cruelty (eg hunting) is racist (this is a good point, if you ask me), and b) the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" is being trampled all over here, in a way one would not see if the defendant was white (again, I basically agree - people have lost all sense of procedure in this case, but it's clearly due more to the fact that Vick is accused of murdering man's best friends with his bare hands than with his race. I mean, really, if white people flipped out and joined in every time the legal system rushed to judgement of a black man, none of us would have time for anything else).On the other hand, we have the whole No Snitchin' thing. For those of you who don't know, No Snitchin' is the hottest issue right now in black cultural politics and law enforcement. Black leaders feel that the endemic culture of intimidation of witnesses by gangs and whatnot is a major cause of the ongoing destruction of the black community - crime cannot be effectively fought because witnesses are threatened and hence no one comes forward to testify against anyone and the cycle of crime, violence, and poverty continues, unabated. As usual, rappers are being blamed for glorifying No Snitchin' in their music (my personal favorite No Snitchin song is "Oh Boy" by Cam'ron). Meanwhile, what is Vick doing?? He's snitchin'! He's twistin! He's bitchin' Oh damn! If Feds was listenin'! (Cam'ron reference, people). I don't see any of Vick's defenders coming down on his ass for snitchin. This wouldn't be so egregious if dogfighting wasn't a part of the same culture that gave us the No Snitchin' movement, but it is.
All I'm asking for is a little consistency here, folks. I want to see all those dogfighting apologists on the news tonight threatening to put a hole in Vick's sweater with their Beretta (that's Biggie Smalls) for being a squealin'-ass bitch. Is that too much to ask???
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Hunting Deer and Killing dogs are two different things. It is sad that hunting has to be brought into this.
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I don't know nothing about snitching. But if I did, I wouldn't tell you.
I can totally see why ppl are crying double standard re: whitey not getting criticized for hunting. But hunting, even if for sheer bloodsport rather than nutrition, is totally different from dog fighting which entails breeding puppies, turning them into killing machines, and placing bets on which can kill the other faster. It's fucked up all around. I happen to think hunting is messed up too but only in so far as it's been transformed into a weird leisure sport with lots of accessories. I support the concept of killing an animal yourself and eating it for dinner.
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