When you hear the name Michael Vick, what do you think of?
When you hear the name Jay Fabian, what do you think of?
So, even someone as indifferent to football as I had heard a lot about Vick's animal cruelty and dogfighting. A lot. I am equally indifferent to Nascar but didn't hear a word about it except a mention with Vick in this painful article.
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/β¦
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There's a wikipedia entry about Vick's animal cruelty but not one about Fabian's. Fabian's top stories are in local & sports blogs, Vick's in national papers 
I wonder what is the difference between the media frenzy over Vick's animal cruelty and Fabian's. I mean starving animals to death is a long, slow, cruel death, far worse, in my opinion, than hanging (which is very bad, but not torturously long)
That was a rhetorical question. Vick is Black, Fabian is white. The media heavily promotes stories that feature Black criminality while ignoring white criminality.
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And please don't think I am carrying water for Vick. It's just this struck me as yet another example of how racism is perpetuated
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