Odessa

I think we can all agree that he obviously has little regard for the lives of the dogs he had, raised and fought. Now all of a sudden, a black author equates outrage over his crimes to racism.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/20/ED6BU1EKB.DTL

Pamela M. Johnson is a fiction author. Perhaps she needs to stick to fiction, since she can't keep her facts straight. Obviously the San Francisco Chronicle is a rag and has no common sense in printing this piece of crap. I know I am not alone in my opinion, I read the blogs - not ONE person agreed with her assessment.

Fact is, I don't care what color Michael Vick is, he is a degenerate thug who derived pleasure out of another creature's pain. He surely can not claim that he needed the money, so it was obviously a grizzly hobby. Furthermore, stating that our condemnation of Mr. Vicks actions is racist is nonsense - the man is a celebrity. All celebrities are scrutinized.

Ms. Johnson's equating Mr. Vick's actions to anything an African American suffers in this country today is laughable. If someone were to take a black man, put him in a cage, only bring him out to train or fight to the death, the person subjecting him to those atrocities would be guilty of kidnapping and possibly murder among many other crimes. They would be going away for longer than Mr. Vick will be - so then, how is a dog treated better than a black man?

Ms. Johnson, hate to burst your bubble, but there are some things that have nothing to do with race.