Two years later
Writing by treason on Wednesday, 29 of August , 2007 at 8:06 pm
“Here is the key fact in the ugly saga of football player Michael Vick: Thanks to him, dogs fatally were hanged, drowned, shot, and electrocuted. The summer airwaves have been choked with breathless talk about when Vick might resume his NFL career, when he gets a second chance, and how soon America can accept his apology for what he calls ‘a mistake.’ Amid all this ceaseless chatter lie the cadavers of canines butchered as part of Vick’s criminal enterprise.
Highly maddening has been the baffling effort by prominent black Americans to trivialize the acts to which Vick pleaded guilty Monday, to excuse them, or place them into some all-forgiving historical and social context.
‘It’s a cultural thing, I think,’ Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson. ‘Most brothers didn’t know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighborhood all the time. I didn’t know that was Fed time. So, Mike probably just didn’t read his handbook on what not to do as a black star.’
So, it’s not about dog killing, it’s about (what else?) lingering white racism.”
– Deroy Murdock, NRO
One would think, after listening to the debate over Vick and Katrina, that there has been no progress in race relations whatsoever. In fact, the issue has been complicated even more because it’s not just a matter of race, of simply black and white, it’s a matter of culture. In other words, you may think you understand skin color, but there ain’t no way in hell you’ll ever understand culture. So don’t even try.
To add to the confusion: There’s been a steady stream of culture experts in the media berating us for our lack of understanding. So you only just noticed this problem? Why, this has been going on for centuries!
“Lassie was on the air for 20 years, but Nat King Cole was canceled after six months.”
– Michael Eric Dyson
What? If this remark makes no sense to you, then it’s obvious you just don’t understand the problem. You’re the problem. What’s disturbing here is that the dog, a.k.a. man’s best friend, is suddenly becoming a symbol of something else, much like a Confederate flag or hijab.
So, if I’m to fully understand the outcome of this whole dogfighting case and of levees breaking and flooding a city, I’m left to deal with some “basic truths.” White people treat dogs better than they treat blacks. Blacks treat dogs like dogs. Dogfighting is a sport. Blacks are better at sports than white people. Mississippi has received more help than Louisiana because George Bush hates black people. If Michael Vick was white, this wouldn’t be an issue. If Brett Favre killed pit bulls it would be okay.
Uh, no, it wouldn’t. Favre, like Vick, would be a soulless criminal and there would be just as much outrage. Maybe even more because Favre would have absolutely no excuse. Why? Because despite all the evidence of both white and brown participation in this inhumane activity, this crime, we are being told – by blacks mostly – is exclusively a black thing.
From this argument one can surmise the following:
1. White people like dogs.
2. White people don’t like black people.
3. Black people don’t like dogs.
4. Black people don’t like white people.
5. It’s just a cultural thang.
As Deroy Murdock, who just so happens to be black, points out:
“Slaughtering dogs is as much a part of black culture as kabuki theater. Anyone who says otherwise is howling at the moon.”
Two years ago – and even today – we are being told that blacks aren’t capable of rebuilding a community. Of coping with disaster. Of picking themselves up, dusting themselves off, and starting all over again. They are not self-sufficient. They are dependent. Like dogs.
Why exactly do blacks want so much for us to believe this?
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