Michael Vick's former high school has REFUSED to re-hang the NFL star's framed prep football jersey in their hallway despite a spirited student-initiated campaign.Vick's jersey had been on display in the hallway at Warwick High in Newport News, VA until 2007 when he was busted for that whole dogfighting ring. However, after Vick's incredible NFL comeback this past season, hundreds of students rallied to get administrators to forgive Vick and re-hang his old #7.
But school officials have made their decision -- the jersey will NOT be returned on display for the remainder of the year.
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Michael Vick should not be an example to impressionable young people. He is a convicted criminal, not a hometown hero.
ReplyDeleteMichael Vick knowingly bred pitbulls for fighting. He participated in their "training", and cruelly disposed of dogs that didn't make the cut. This included starvation, shooting, hanging, throwing them down stairs. He had mass graves on his property full of those discarded dogs. He did not serve his full prison sentence and he did not pay the full fines that he was supposed to. This man is not a person that anyone should admire or look up to. Using "culture" as an excuse for behavior like this is BS. Purposeful cruelty and torture of another living being, human or not, is not excusable. Isn't that what societal evolution is about? We no longer have slaves, we no longer murder each other in the street. We did these things in the past and have decided as a civilized society that these behaviors are no longer tolerated. Why do our societal standards not evolve when it comes to animals who cannot defend themselves?
What Vick did also continued the bad rap pit bulls get from the public. The way they have been bred actually makes them suseptible to fighting for their owner. They will do ANYTHING to please their keeper. Pitbulls used to be used as "nanny" dogs and do not generally deserve their reputation as unsafe. It is people like Vick that perpetuate it. Perhaps you should also talk about what happened to the animals that were seized from his property by the federal government and how his case was purposefully used as an example. Using a high profile figure as an example to others sometimes helps. In any rate, he broke the law and deserved the consequences. This man is not a hero, he's a scumbag.
Putting his jersey back up would be the same as putting up one of Madoff's neckties on the wall of the school? He was a fantastic capitalist, right? What does it matter that he's a criminal. Same thing. But at least Madoff didn't sadistically torture creatures that couldn't defend themselves.