Friday, July 20, 2007

now here's a priceless perspective on Mike Vick

Mike Freeman, columnist (and I use the term very loosely) for CBS Sportsline, thinks I, because I'm white, automatically think Mike Vick is guilty and black people, because they are black, think he's being framed. Freeman was once a columnist for the J'ville fishwrap, so I'm familiar with his "work". Whenever remotely possible, throw down the race card. Freeman can find racism in a blank piece of cardboard. In his quest to find racism in just about everything, he's led me to believe he's one of the more racist black men in the world of "journalism". Everything in the world of Freeman comes down to the color of one's skin.

Chris Leak, quarterback of the national champion Florida Gators got no consideration for the Heisman Trophy...because he's black. The fact that Troy Smith won the thing, and he happens to be black as well, didn't deter Freeman. I'm sure in his mind, Freeman hasn't won the Pulitzer Prize, not because he's a one trick racist pony, but because he happens to be black.

I dunno. I tend to think Vick is guilty because there seems to be a mounting pile of evidence that says he abused animals. If Brad Pitt was in the same situation, I think I'd believe he was just as guilty. True, my perception is clouded by the media, since that's where I get most of my insight into the subject. That same perception was clouded in the Duke lacrosse team case, when I thought those kids were guilty too. I know the faces I saw on TV weren't black and the arms were devoid of tattoos. My opinion of Vick has nothing to do with trusting black people, braids or tattoos. It has to do with his involvement in dog fighting.

Still, in the Duke lacrose team case, even though I thought the boys were guilty, I said the same thing I'm saying now. Let the legal system do what it does. It doesn't always get it right, but it does most of the time, if given a chance. It sure gets it right more often than the media, and more often than any other system we have. In this case, it gets it right a whole lot more than Mike Freeman.

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