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NEW ORLEANS (AP - Link) — Mayor Ray Nagin could be days away from announcing he will run for governor of Louisiana — a move many in this stricken city regard as preposterous.If Nagin runs, he will do so on his stewardship of New Orleans. But this is a city in great distress two years after Hurricane Katrina, with large swaths still empty, an appalling murder rate and a painfully sluggish recovery. Nagin’s disapproval rating stood at 65 percent in a recent poll.

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I saw this in a news headline and I thought it was a fucken joke.

This has got to be the most unbelievable crazy shit I have seen in politics, if it happens.
I swear to God this can’t be real, this idiot ass nigga fuck can’t possible be contemplating taking on a governorship when he can’t even get his head out of his ass on the situation in NOLA.

The sad thing is, if he runs, he will actually be competitive, a whole bunch of retarded ass Negros would actually vote for this fool, not to mention that Louisiana is corrupt enough politically that this is a possibility.

I’m just speechless, what the fuck can you say about this, either dude has been smoking too much crack or he is mildly retarded and he is clueless as to the situation in NOLA.

This piece was written by some liberal idiot dumbass Sheldon Drobny found on the Puffington Post via Conservative Grapevine.

I can’t tell you how many idiot ass white people I have read over the past several days that keep writing these stupid ass articles about Michael Vick repeating this ridiculous notion that DOGFIGHTING IS PART OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE.

What fucken planet are you idiots getting this from?
Dog fighting is no more part of the Negro culture than is baggy pants, parking on the lawn, 40’s, hair weaves and press on nails.

Before any more of you dumbass white people keep spreading this bullshit nonsense, try having a conversation with a Negro who is not from the hood, at least a graduate from high school, employed, wearing a belt and is not named after a major kitchen appliance, a car or some faux “African” sounding name ending with “quan.”

I am a dog lover and have adopted and rescued abused dogs. I believe that inhumane treatment to animals is counter to the best interests of our society. On the other hand, I do believe in proportionate justice and the Michael Vick case is a horrible example of disproportionate justice against blacks and its consequences could be profound.There are many cultures in the world that accept and promote cruelty to animals. In some countries of Hispanic origin, bullfighting is promoted as a national sport. And dogs are eaten in some Asian countries.

It is my understanding that dog fighting is part of the African-American culture despite the fact that it is a federal crime. That does not make it right, but it does explain in part Vick’s participation in this event.

President Bush commuted the sentence of Irving “Scooter” Libby for crimes he committed knowingly which compromised our national security. Surely he could find it in his heart to use the same rationalization for commuting Libby’s sentence. If Libby paid enough of a price for his crime, surely Vick should be given the same consideration since he has lost his over $125 million and his career.

Article: Vick ‘reaction’ has racial aspect - Link
By Dan Le Batard

We are watching Michael Vick’s glorious life fall apart on TV. The details of his cruelty to dogs are shocking, nauseating and illegal. He is wrong, case closed. To defend him is to defend the indefensible, and the felonious. If a white quarterback such as Peyton Manning had been at the center of this, he would become just as radioactive, maybe more so.How could anyone take any other side on something this black and white?

If you are asking that, you must have missed that little trial involving O.J. Simpson.

There is so much baggage and history and emotion and volume here that a lot gets lost in translation. I don’t hear many black people defending Vick’s actions today. What I hear is many black people objecting to the size and intensity of the reaction. Those are two very different things. But they start to sound the same when white people yell with disgust, ”Not the race card again!” and black people counter with, ”Race impacts everything.” Not a lot gets heard clearly when people are trying to talk while standing that far apart.

And the louder and angrier the reaction gets, the more pressure is put on authorities — usually white authorities — to make an example out of a black icon.

Quibble with our country’s laws if you like, but you have to abide by them if you want to be free here. That’s nonnegotiable, and it is going to get Vick jailed. But it is after that when things get muddier. The question isn’t whether Vick should lose money or freedom today. The question becomes how much of his money and freedom he should lose. The difference there is between penalizing a black icon and ruining him.

It makes sense, based on past history and personal experiences, that black folks might not trust the system to treat one of their own fairly once we go from letter-of-the-law jail to subjective suspension.

The people making the decisions about how much of his life Vick gets to keep post-jail are white and applying their sensibilities — which is how you arrive at rules that ban the black athletes who like to celebrate from dancing too much in the end zone. All the team owners and the commissioner are white, as are the richest of Vick’s endorsers and most of the consumers of all this product. You’ll forgive black people if they aren’t terribly comfortable with white people making the rules for them. That hasn’t gone so well in the past.

Then there’s this: The white athlete tends to get more room to rehab his image than the black one. There is no black equivalent to reckless addict golfer John Daly, throwing away talent but nonetheless popular and embraced. Some of that has to do with Daly harming only himself, not teammates or fans of that team, but not all of it. Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden aren’t perceived quite like drunk heroes Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin. Some of that has to do with Mantle’s more innocent era, but not all of it.

It would be interesting to see the reaction if it were an NBA team instead of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals (Tony La Russa, DUI arrest; Josh Hancock, drunk-driving death; Scott Spiezio, rehab) that had the substance-abuse problem. Would they feel more like the Bengals? And how is the reaction different if Michael Doleac, Chris Quinn and Jason Kapono fought fans in Detroit instead of three giant black guys with braids and tattoos? Have you noticed how differently basketball fights are covered than baseball brawls? Is the pressure and penalty as large on Quinn as it was on Ron Artest? If the action is exactly the same, is the reaction?

COMPASSION FACTOR

Race doesn’t always amplify the noise around a national scandal. The Beltway Sniper was black and randomly killed 10 people, and you didn’t hear folks taking sides on that one. But that’s the exception, not the rule. Vick makes for a bad martyr, but it is human nature to feel sorry for your own while watching him beat up daily on television as his life unravels. That’s not racism. It is compassion. And human.

Our experiences always shape our perspectives. We saw it with O.J. Simpson. Blacks were so thrilled to finally beat what they saw as an unfair system — a system that jails them at a disproportionate rate — that the thrill of winning ignored even someone getting away with murder. When the distrust is that large and pervasive, it is going to seep into some places it doesn’t belong — like, for example, this Vick case.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Dogfighting is glorified in segments of the hip-hop community, so there are some cultural differences that complicate matters here. There isn’t much of a difference between killing dogs for sport and the art of bullfighting.

You are walking a thin line if you see a lot of distinction between pitting dogs bred to fight and shooting a deer just to put the head up in your office. Go to Hialeah, and you’ll see that one man’s cruelty to animals is another man appeasing his god. Heck, our own states can’t agree. Dogfighting is but a misdemeanor in two of them. Vick couldn’t have known dogfighting had consequences this large or he wouldn’t have been doing it. And it can be jarring to see one of your own lose his livelihood and freedom and name for something that isn’t a lot different than bullfighting.

This isn’t to say dogfighting is a black thing. It isn’t. It is an illegal thing. It is just to point out that there are shades of gray in here even as we discuss black and white.

And you are more likely to find them only if you are interested in doing so.

This is one article where I don’t have to even comment on because after you read it you too will roll your eyes and say to yourself “what the fuck!?”

It’s clear that the dude who wrote this article was on crack. No seriously, he was. Besides he is not even original.

Pick your typical idiot Negro superstar athlete and insert name in place of Vick’s.

Poor black kid, yada, yada, yada… single mother, high school dropout, growing up in da hood, around crime, gangs, drugs lots of gold teeth, baggy pants, pit bulls, hair weaves, gin and juice…er uh crunk juice. Yawn.

Reason #4,115 it’s whiteys fault Vick is going to jail.

By Shaun Powell - NY Newsday

Michael Vick is not guilty. No, really, in one sense, despite his plea yesterday, this is the wrong guy.

For months, investigators circled their wagons around the Falcons quarterback with the intensity of blitzing linebackers and implied that Vick masterminded the slaughtering of dozens of dogs who couldn’t cut it in the ring. They cut deals with members of Vick’s posse, who snitched about those brutal dogfights held on his spread in Virginia. Vick, the feds believe, created this.

But who created Vick?

Who gave power and money and influence to someone who has done nothing, other than sling a football, to deserve it?

Who failed to teach him right from wrong, or the importance of making good choices, when they had the chance?

Who unleashed, pardon the expression, Vick on those dogs and turned him into a national disgrace?

Those are the real guilty people. If the feds are correct about Vick’s role, then those people also helped strangle and shoot and drown animals that in essence were poisoned by a man who was poisoned himself long ago.

Personal accountability is definitely in order here, make no mistake. What Vick did was heartless and he should do time. But he’s a symptom of something larger and troubling: a young man led down the wrong path by an upbringing that wasn’t exactly “Leave It to Beaver”; by his “boyz” who leeched off him instead of living their own lives; by a celebrity-inhaling society that elevated him to a god and by a sports league loaded enough to give him a $130-million contract.

Vick didn’t build a cruel kennel with just the help of a couple of buddies; he had help from tons of people, the ones who made him who he is, the ones who shaped his character.

He wasn’t a spoiled, immature and misguided animal abuser from birth. Actually, he was exactly like your child: an innocent sponge, ready to absorb the world around him. Except his world was probably a lot different from the one you exposed to your child.

He was born to a mother who was still in high school, and by the time Brenda Vick was 21, she had four kids. She was a baby with babies, not unusual in poor black America today. How could she teach them about life when she hadn’t experienced life herself? How could she watch her kids when she had to work enough jobs to feed them? Plus, she raised them in the projects, where too many influences are bad.

This was the incubator where Vick’s values and morals were shaped. These were the circumstances that also ruined his younger brother, Marcus, who later would be kicked off the team at Virginia Tech for stomping on another player’s leg and who once was charged with pointing a gun at a group of kids.

Vick was a great athlete in high school and a superstar at Virginia Tech, where football fever runs high and football players - especially the special ones - are treated like they’re, well, special. The coddling of Michael Vick intensified when he arrived in Atlanta as the savior of the Falcons. Interestingly, during a “Monday Night Football” promo a few years ago, Vick was asked what was the best thing about being Michael Vick.

“V-I-P wherever I go,” he exclaimed.

The Falcons gave him a monster contract and essentially handed him the keys to the organization, if not the city. But being rich and famous doesn’t necessarily hide all the character flaws, and Vick had a few. He used his middle fingers to salute the home fans last season. He was charged by a woman with giving her a disease. There was the water bottle incident at the Miami airport this year. He showed a pattern of irresponsibility. And in every misstep until now, the Falcons covered for him, excused his behavior, looked the other way.

Vick also loved the gangsta culture that uses pit bulls as status symbols. He surrounded himself with buddies from back home, some with rap sheets, and bankrolled them. They played by their rules and amused themselves with dogfights that claimed plenty of canine victims.

But you tell me:

Born to a teenage mother, raised in the projects, consumed by a negative culture, back-slapped by vulture “friends” and elevated by a sports-mad society, who’s the real Vick-tim here?

And who’s really guilty?

This from the blog Hip Hop Republicans, I had to post because I know some of you white people out the oft wondered why you see black dudes wearing those weird head wraps on their heads, well thanks to this post and Hip Hop republicans here is some informational material for you. Another Snoop PPP public service.

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Is it me or are young men wearing do-rags allot more these days.

In asking this question I am not saying that there is something wrong with simply wearing a do- rag itself because in my formative day’s I use to don one. But my criticism is that these days do-rags have become a fad
of the new hip hop generation.

And as such maybe looked at as an example of authentic black culture! While do- rags have there place as far as hygiene and appearance is concerned I fell today the do-rag is being worn for purely rebellious
reasons.

When I was young I use to wear the do -rag only before bed as a way to create a wave pattern in my hair.I do not recall me ever leaving the house with it and walking around the neighborhood. The first time I can
recall a do-rag worn openly is on BET when they began adding hard core rap to there segments in the late 80’s.

Back then I noticed that most young black boys like myself wanted to look good for the ladies and waves were in. The boy group New Edition sported the bestwearing wave pattens to date and we wanted that. If waves is what
the ladies liked then waves it would be.But the only way to get waves or as southernwomen would say “good hair”was to put a do-rag on for hours and hope an pray that the wave pattern kicked in before morning.

If the pattern had not come by morning I would throw some grease in my hair put the do-rag away grab my books and head for the bus stop. I would never wear the do -rag to school because to do so would be tacky and I would probably be kicked out of school for the day.

Today there is not the same social stigmatization to wearing do-rags in public so I guess this is why I see more of it.I think this may void of social stigmatization is why many of our children feel like “pulling
down there pants is a style and do -rags is keeping it real”

The truth is that today the do rag has become a symbol of it’s tackiness and as a young black man it is somewhat embarrassing to see other young black men with there paints hanging literally to ones knees.
Today’sdo-rag is being worn not for wave pattern but because the do -rag itself is a symbol and badge of urban life.

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