[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

How totally bizarre. I'm not sure what's weirder--the nudge-nudge, wink-wink attitude toward animal cruelty, or the fact that the NAACP felt the need to weigh in on this issue at all, which after all has nothing whatsoever to do with race. By weighing in, are they tacitly acknowledging that dogfighting is more prevalent among African-Americans? And even if it is, why condone it in this way?

Totally weird--and not at all how I think an advocacy group should be run. The NAACP should have stayed far, far away from this one.

I think you're exactly right about them staying away.

I have no problem with the NAACP getting involved in cases where race is an issue, or where civil rights are being violated. In this case it just looks as thoug militant members of the NAACP are trying to make this look like Vick is being persecuted because he is black.

Maybe he is getting unfair attention over this, but I'd bet my left nut that it has more to do with the fact that he is a "Star" quaterback in the NFL, a league where players receive more attention than any other sport in America, then him being black.

It seems to me that by implying that these charges, or the attention generated by them is race related, does more to hurt the cause of the NAACP, than to improve it.