o.k. now that he has plead guilty, how much time should michael vick receive? i have been all over the internet looking at a variety of polls and i would say the majority say lock him up and throw away the key, or put him in the ring with one of the pitbulls involved in this case. then on every blog relating to this case i envitably see the comments revert to race. i literally find myself reading each comment and saying this person is white (most will eventually just come out and say it) or this person is black (which will usually be stated as well). at first i just shook my head and thought why is a conversation on race coming out of this case?
the answer: because unfortunately race is never really that far away from us. its just right there below the surface, and whenever an event scratches that ever so thin surface then we start to see demonstrations divided by color. blog entries talking like, "Why do blacks,(not African Americans because most of them can't even find Africa on a map much less been there)". and all i could say to a statement like that is "wow", that might be the man sitting two tables away from me at the local starbucks, pretending to not mind integration.
