"Dog fighting is a terrible thing and I did reject it. Through this situation I found Jesus, and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life over to God." Michael Vick Playing the Jesus Card.
With the guilty plea and the plea bargain submitted, the sentencing – expect a couple years in prison – will now have to wait until December. Hopefully December will be cold enough in Atlanta to deter rioting. Thanks to O J Simpson we now have a name for this dynamic, the Simpson Syndrome. Which can be easily confused with the other Simpson Syndrome, DUH!
The issue itself is about as low as humans can sink. All arguments defending this crap are off. Whether it’s the NAACP and Flacon Fans claiming racism or Black commentators defending it because it’s not as bad as this or that. But Deion Sanders kicked the issue through the goal posts when he said it only expresses the reality of Black culture. Bingo. Sub culture, Hip Hop.
I have defended Hip Hop and Rap as the poetry of The Hood for a generation, but as a biased dog lover, I have now had it up to HERE with this crap. This issue is not about third world chicken fights or Matadors facing death in a bullring. This is about man’s best friend being used to fight to the death (with the losers killed) not only for money, but more importantly, for the joy of watching something suffer for the macho fun of it. There is no redeeming social value involved. So now Dog Killing has been added to what the Hip Hop culture has come to most represent and promote: Revenge, violence, gangs, guns, prisons, pimping and murder. These are the heroes for a generation of Inner City Black kids. It has gone over the top.
To their benefit Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Bill Cosby, James Brown and a few others over the years have called this culture out for what it is to little or no fanfare and even less avail.
"I want you to tell people to love one another. I want you to fight to lift the standards back. What happened to us that we are now celebrating from being down? What happened we went from saying I’m black and I’m proud to calling each other blacks and ho’s and witches. I sung people up and now they’re singing people down, and we need to change the music. Lift the music back to where children and their grand mommas can sit and listen to the music together." Al Sharpton in his eulogy as to what James Brown told him just weeks before he died.
Rap is not even music, it is culture. There is little if any musical talent involved. Ask a Rapper what instrument he plays or listen to him belt out a melody. What little music there is has likely been stolen and remixed. It’s the Disco of yesteryear with the bass turned up, replacing mindless dance music with angry dance music. Even the accompanying Hip Hop fashion is based on excessive clownish jewelry, loose clothing to better conceal large weapons, and face and neck tattoos to imply unemployable criminality. And of course that foul unintelligible dialect that demeans everything including themselves. But it is the glorification of revenge, guns, violence and murder that is Hip Hops’ central contribution to the low road of humanity. So there!