Vick victim of inevitable legal backlash

  Simpson sealed Vick's fate a long time ago

           I remember watching the 'not guilty' verdict handed down in the O.J. Simpson murder trial and being stunned beyond belief.

It wasn't because I thought Simpson actually killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, because I know he didn't. This is not coming from a black person who has an axe to grind with white people, but rather from a guy who knows the type of people who are capable of committing a double murder with a knife, and trust me in terms of criminal capability, Simpson isn't that talented of a murderer.

I'm one of the few people who thought the civil judement was probably justified, despite the mockery it made of the judicial system. I always felt as though Simpson played a role in their murders and was very likely present at the time of the killings.

So in that regard he should've had to fork over tens of millions of dollars for getting away with killing his baby's mama and her boy toy. most black men who commit that crime are currently on death row or still in their white Broncos ducking the feds.

While Kobe Bryant benefited from the fact that the majority of the public never really belived that he assaulted the girl who had accused him of rape, he was just as lucky that his victim was willing to get her payday without ever having to appear in a trial setting (surprise, surprise huh?).

Had Bryant been forced to endure a real live trial, things may had ended up very differently for him, this is still America.

When Bryant's legal issue came up, the biggest tell-tale that things were going to work in his favor came from one of the premeire corporations in the state of colorado, the Denver Nuggets.

Bryant was being wooed by the Nuggets to the tune of 130 million dollars while he was facing a rape charge in that state!

O.J. was well into retirement when his case came in front of the American public, but the former Heisman trophy winner had already invested years of his life courting and massaging corporate America, translation: white people, into thinking that among blacks, he was one of the good ones.

The paradox of the Vick situation is that O.J.'s victory almost seemed to empower many black entertainers and athletes by creating the facade that as long as you have enough money in the bank, you could get away with almost anything, even if you're black.

Adam 'Pacman' Jones is still walking around with hopes of playing football in the near future mainly because he's only famous because of his crimes.

Making Jones an example for the legal system wouldn't accomplish much because we all expect Pacman to go to jail sooner or later anyway.

Vick on the other hand was the payback that the judicial system has wanted ever since O.J. stood in that L.A. courtroom with that s**t-eating grin after hearing those infamous word...'not guilty'.

Outside of Peyton Manning, Vick was probably the most recognizable and marketable player in the NFL, with Reggie Bush coming on strong.

On top of that, because of all the back biting and questions about his competence by television analysts and football gurus, Vick had also become a sort of champion among the black football crowd.

That fact is extremely evident as we watch the race relations of city of Atlanta deteriorate to almost pre Civil War levels, all because of the dueling perceptions that blacks and whites have of the embattled quarterback.

 The black people's champion?

So with an opportunity to nail the biggest hero for black sports fans, in O.J.'s sport no less, the Feds were as giddy as Dick Cheney at a Halaburton proxy meeting.

Tommorrow morning when I eat my scrambled chicken embryos and fried dead animal flesh, I won't bat an eyelash for fear of PETA picketing outside of my front door.

While the alleged actions of Vick and his cohorts (what ever happened to 'stop snitching'?) may seem horrendous to many dog lovers, the abuse that animals suffer worldwide for our guilty pleasures, pales in comparison.

You would've thought that someone with Vick's bank account and a boss like Arthur Blank could've manage to squeeze Vick out of this predicament with a few million dollars spread around here and there.

Unfortunately for Vick, as bad as Blank wanted to get his hands on the Lombardi Trophy, after watching O.J. playing golf and still dating white women for the past 12 years, the judicial system wanted their trophy much, much more.