Why Should Vick Give Back 20 Million

When in America do we stop kicking a person, when we know that person is down? When are we satisfied? There appears to be no logical explanation when enough is enough. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Today Micheal Vick is the villain and everyone is looking for dirt.

It is always easy to find dirt. Once we find dirt it is always easy to find more. Everyone has forgotten the days when he worked his butt off to become the highest paid NFL player. We forget when he deserved all the glory and everyone talked about his greatness. Somewhere we forgot that the young man needed help. What happened to the American soul?

When a star is down do, we ever ask how we can help? There is something in the American psyche where we hate to see a success. We tend to want to see someone fall on their face. The news media thrives on dirt and the problems of success. As a star spirals downward into desperation and despair the news media appears to be ecstatic. This appears to be their lead story and if they can embellish the story with a big lie, that can get a bonus.

Micheal Vick is the lead story this month and if we can find a dirty story to embellish, we have done our job. The truth of the matter is that Vick has no idea how to improve his image and he continues to behave immaturely. He needs a team of polished professionals who know how to navigate through enemy territory. The enemy is serious about sending him to jail.

The enemy is serious about taking every penny that they can find because his glory days at this point are over. The 20 million was a bonus for all the work he had done to get is team ahead. Now that society says he is a criminal. (He never robbed or stole from anybody.) He must give back something that he worked for five years and really his whole life. We live in a sick society when we are put in jail for killing a dog. I am not condoning dog fights but there is an audience for that sick sport.

In the final analysis is America still a racist society? There is something wrong when African-American young men are put in jail for fighting and the white young men for hanging a rope are let go. In Florida a group of policeman are told that they did nothing wrong when an African-American teenager dies because of a boot camp. There is nothing wrong when a New York professor finds a rope hanging on her door to her office. I know it was dumb to fight dogs but when do we stop destroying a man dignity?

We all make mistakes. Is there a difference in an African-American mistake as opposed to a white person's mistake? Give Michael Vick his money and let him play football. He earned his money by working hard. He did not hurt a human being. We need to stand up for what is right and what makes sense. It appears to me his major crime is that he had to much money for a Black Man.
Roger