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

[Mizzougrad96]

Good God...

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/08/25/actual-espn-the-magazine-headline-what-if-michael-vick-were-white-the-photo-illustration-is-even-worse/?sources=topbuttons

If someone else saw this first, I apologize, but I didn't see anything.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

http://espn.go.com/espn/commentary/story/_/id/6894586/imagining-michael-vick-white-quarterback-nfl-espn-magazine

 

[flexmaster33]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

So frustrating!!!

Yes, if Vick was white no one would care that he was a dog killer. What a premise.

 

[LarryCathey]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

To answer the question, he'd be considered scrappy instead of killing Scrappy.

 

[Versatile]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

So frustrating!!!

Yes, if Vick was white no one would care that he was a dog killer. What a premise.

That's really quite the opposite of what the author says.

 

[flexmaster33]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

Guilty...I'll have to read it tonight when I have a chance.

 

[SF_Express]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

We've been following this all day. First, the art was a rendition of him as a white QB. Then, somebody apparently got cold feet, and it was just a picture of him. Now, somebody's feet apparently got warmer, and it's a picture of him as a white QB again.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

What's the point of even doing this story?

 

[21]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

Is this the same Toure (there are so many, I know) who authored the highly-acclaimed and deeply moving book, 'Go The F*ck to Sleep'?

 

[steveu]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

I saw that on Sportscenter last night and I could not believe they actually went with the "what if he were white" card. Jesus.

Instead of concentrating on that, why don't you talk to the animal-rights people who are STILL up in arms at this guy?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

Is this the same Toure (there are so many, I know) who authored the highly-acclaimed and deeply moving book, 'Go The F*ck to Sleep'?

No, that was Cortes.

Toure used to write for Rolling Stone. He kind of has a Malcolm Gladwell look and, if I recall, a bit of Michael Silver's writing and reporting style.

 

[SF_Express]

Re: What is Michael Vick was white? - ESPN reaches for new lows...

ESPN explains the now you see it, now you don't photo:

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/08/25/actual-espn-the-magazine-headline-what-if-michael-vick-were-white-the-photo-illustration-is-even-worse/