VICK PUTS CHILDREN OVER DOGS

By mhblatt • August 6, 2007

Mitchell Blatt

And Really, Who Wouldn’t, PETA?

Support for Michael Vick in Atlanta is high when you consider he is a ruthless dogfighter who kills dogs by electrocution and hanging. In large part, this is due to the fact that Atlanta is a predominately black city (61%), but also because the residents can quote specific things Vick has done to help the community. He donated a ton of money to the schools. He visited an innocent boy who got shot in a drive-by. He seems to have a soft spot in his heart for his community. Animal rights activists might ask, “How can a seemingly nice man be so heinous to dogs?”

Because dogs aren’t human? There’s a big difference between an eight-year-old boy getting shot and a dog getting mauled. The humanity in a boy makes some people feel more sympathetic to them. They talk. They feel. They are individuals. Dogs are more like property. You pay for them, then you own them. When it comes to kids, I guess you do have to pay to make them, but that’s a different story.

Even so, it is still pretty disgusting for someone to kill a dog by slamming it into the car. I want to make it clear that I believe what Michael Vick did was wrong. (In fact, it was BARBARIC!) But, the way you hear the national media and protest groups cover it, you would think that he has been arrested five times in the past year and incited a gunfight that resulted in one person’s paralysis. (That was Pacman Jones.)

Dog-owners are a crazy breed that seem to value their dogs over their kids. They send their dogs to dog hotels and buy them sweaters. They get mad about dogfighting rings, but don’t care about rape. If we were a civilized nation, we would put Vick on the backburner and start protesting over Pacman Jones.