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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
To be honest, to say race plays an issue is to toss out a red herring. This case is generating attention because it's a first real test of Goddell's league conduct policy, and because people have a soft spot in their heart for dogs. I firmly believe that had Vick been accused of any other crime, this wouldn't get so much attention.
How much media attention did Rae Carruth get?
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It is true, I believe that to say that race is a red herring with regard to Vick's individual treatment by the NFL. However, I think that this is more interesting from the standpoint that dogfighting is apparently more culturally sanctioned by blacks than whites and is possibly more reviled by whites than blacks (didn't see many black PETA members demostrating), thereby creating a situation like the drug sentences where possession of cocaine a "rich white person drug," had more lenient sentences than crack, a "poor, black person drug." It is true that Rae Carruth's acts did not gain as much notoriety as they should have, but I think that Pac-man and Tank's cases as well as Chris Henry's (sorry Pan) have already demonstrated a pretty stringent policy on the part of Goodell, the difference is really that all of the aforementioned were found criminally responsible, but Vick is thus far only guilty in the court of public opinion.
By the way jorgelito, I am not sure what you were trying to say, but it looked like it was well on the way to being complete bosh.