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What if Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Mizzougrad96, Aug 25, 2011.

  1. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    I don't mean to sound as if I'm defending the piece -- I thought the article was boring and obvious while the package was offensive and irrelevant -- but ESPN The Magazine's last two issues have generated a lot of conversation. Maybe it's for the wrong reasons (the Blue Jays scandal, now this), but I think there are some at ESPN who are probably very happy that Chad Millman's made the Mag relevant.
     
  2. Cubbiebum

    Cubbiebum Member

    I think all the charity work he now does is a pretty good indicator.
     
  3. JPsT

    JPsT Member

    How do you know he hasn't?
     
  4. vicd

    vicd Active Member

    Tony Dungy?
     
  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    We sat in judgment already. That's why he went to prison.

    He's out, and as a 'fundamental' matter of a 'civilized society' is entitled to the same second chance we'd give any other convicted felon.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I do think if he were white, the dogfighting would have gotten a pass from more people as some dumb redneck upholding a Southern tradition.

    Instead it was framed as a bunch of black gang bangers torturing dogs.
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    The much beloved Teddy Roosevelt shot elephants in the head off the front of a train engine.
     
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Vice-President Dick Cheney shot a man in the face.

    What if he were black? Cheney, that is. Or in blackface?

    Or what if Cheney shot Evan Longoria in the face, but then Longoria shot him back with an AK-47? And what if Cheney was/were/is black? And Evan Longoria is/were/was Vice-President?

    What then?
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Whole 'nother story. Is Evan Longoria Mexican? Is he legal?
     
  10. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle!
     
  11. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Wasn't there a shooting after Vick's first birthday party after his stint in prison? Nice try on the whole "he's changed his life" part.
     
  12. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Can't wait for the photo illustration on that one.
     
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