As was done after the indictment of Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick on federal dogfighting charges, this space will sample some of the reaction from the comments sections of several major websites.
As a disclaimer, I do not profess these comments to represent the prevailing opinion of any group, whether they be sports fans or Americans in general. Additionally, these are the most incendiary comments; there are many comments that, while sharing the same sentiments as the comments documented here, do not quite approach the level of severity.
25. You can take theman out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the man.
Vick is just another arrogant strutting N*****.
Sneering at decent society.
Just like that murderer OJ Simpson.
Just like those filthy mouthed rap “artists”.
I wasn’t raised to be a racist, but events of the last years have made me pretty racist.
MLK must be turning over in his grave, this is not what he marched and died for..
We white people don’t understand, do we? Ha-ha….that’s right. We don’t understand why someone is held up as a hero for breaking the law. We don’t understand how someone can make a poor decision and break the law….and then blame it on racism in America.
Folks…white America didn’t force Michael Vick to break the law. He made that decision all on his own…stop making excuses for him.
I live in Philadelphia, the murder capital of the world. Every day at least one black man is murdered. Again, EVERYDAY A BLACK MAN IS MURDERED. How do you expect a culture, which has no regard for its fellow man, to respect the life of a dog?
seanpgh (8/20/2007 at 4:47 PM)
I live in Philadelphia, the murder capital of the world. Every day at least one black man is murdered. Again, EVERYDAY A BLACK MAN IS MURDERED.
You are right. That’s the hood, gansta rappers world. Vick’s world.
Hoosierboy317 (8/20/2007 at 4:52 PM)
A quick poll….
How many people here, who support Michael Vick regardless of the fact that he broke the law, are currently on government welfare?
adx4 (8/20/2007 at 4:40 PM)
“He lied to you. And you bought it. You bought it, even when the facts were right in front of you. You made it about race and you made it about injustice and you made it about everything but the facts. You blindly supported him even when all the evidence was in front of you. He lied to you and you bought it. He already gave you the finger one time and now he just did it again.”
Wow, who the heck is “you”? To say white people hate the black community in this country is an understatement. And i mean HATE. They hate us for supporting Vick, they hate us (or Sharpton at least) for condemning the Duke boys, and they ahte us for supporting OJ (who’s innocent, btw). That kind of pure and unadulterated HATE on ESPN, its hate speech at its best.
Why are white people celebrating this? Why is this some sort of victory?
sumodude28 (8/20/2007 at 5:02 PM)
I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BE TAKEN WRONG OR A RACIST BUT……..
DOES ANYONE NOTICE THAT ALL OF THESE GUYS ARE BLACK? … VICK? PAC-MAN? TANK JOHNSON? OFFERMAN?
sumodude28 (8/20/2007 at 5:10 PM)
HANG VICK LIKE WE USED TO DO TO HIS TYPE A FEW YEARS AGO!!! MAYBE VICK SHOULD HAVE JUST SAID THAT HE HUNG DOGS LIKE WHITES DID TO BLACKS IN THE PAST!!! … ITS ABOUT THE SAME DIFFERENCE — A BLACK MAN vs a DOG is about the same as a WHITE MAN vs a BLACK MAN.
prist14 (8/20/2007 at 5:18 PM)
“Mike is gonna get 3-5 years and be banned from the NFL…”
Yeah, but he’s gonna have a lot of street cred going for him.
well i’m just glad that it’s all over. It’s a shame that he let this get this far…actually it’s a shame that he did all those terrible things in the first place. I actually stood up for him until I knew whether he was guilty or not. Now that it’s clear that he is, to hell w/ him. This unfortunately is not only an embarassment to all african americans but to humanity itself. Now i have to go burn my Vick Jersey because now the stentch of shame is all over it.
Knowing the fact the is a high profile type gangsta thug he may get a second chance, if not he’ll be on the crack circuit soon after he is out. So much has been given to him and he has done nothing but take. He could keep a real job if his life depended on it. Just another wrong lesson to the little wanna be thugs that are waiting out there to try and blame everyone else for their poor decisions.
PS that apology his lawyer gave for him he didn’t really mean, he a take and can take that and shive it staright up there.
I hope the court has the nads to give him over a year in the pokey heh that rhymes with Hoakie!
48. Vick is toast. He will do time and never set foot on the field again as a player. He screwed with the wrong audiance. The animal rights will keep any team from touching him if he even gets the privileage to be able to try out. They will never sign him again!
Too bad, but thats the way it is when you have this feeling that you are untouchable.
Sa la vee, back to grits and greens!
45. What do you expect from a N*GGER?
