I know you've all been waiting with bated breath to see who gets the coveted AOTW award this week. The wait is over. It's someone named Michelle who made the following comment on this post. Yeah it's an old post, but she made the comment this week.
Okay how long did we hear about Healy killing his team mate. Hell he was drunk,driving and committed a murder. Society has it're priorities in the wrong place. It seems that the more money you make the more you get in the media. How many dog lover out there will give mouth to mouth to a dog. How many of you will pull to the side of the road and pick one up or move one out the way that has been hit instead of riding over them. How many of you will go and feed all the homeless people in your neigborhood. Who will be the first to shoot a stray dog in your yard instead of calling impound to pick them up. Yeah keep calling us thugs, black and ignorant, but if you look at some of our pictures and movies that show how the white man tried to keep us this way then who's ignorant and stupid. Just becasue a white man kills, steals, rape, and murder and does something stupid he is still just a white man to me. No reason to call us out of your name.
OK. Let's break this down.
Okay how long did we hear about Healy killing his team mate. Hell he was drunk,driving and committed a murder.
How many of you outside Atlanta know who Michael Vick is? Lot's of you, right? How many outside of Atlanta (and in Atlanta) know who Dan Healy is? Anyone? Healy was an ice hockey player on the Thrashers. He got drunk, had an accident, and killed one of his teammates. Kind of like Ted Kennedy. Like Kennedy, he didn't serve any time. He was traded to another team. Michael Vick, superstar. Dan Healy, better than average ice hockey player. Might have sumpin' to do with the difference in coverage, but Michelle wants to play the race card here.
Society has it're (sic)priorities in the wrong place. It seems that the more money you make the more you get in the media.
Duh! Somehow she stumbled on to a truism.
How many dog lover out there will give mouth to mouth to a dog.
If it's my dog or my cat, I would. I would not electrocute, drown, or throw a dog against the wall to kill it.
How many of you will pull to the side of the road and pick one up or move one out the way that has been hit instead of riding over them.
So in Michelle's mind, not stopping to help an injured animal is the same as torturing and killing an animal. Yep. Makes sense to me.
How many of you will go and feed all the homeless people in your neigborhood.
I don't have any homeless people in my neighborhood. I do give money to charity and pay a tidy sum in taxes. Does that count? Oh, and I don't torture and kill dogs.
Who will be the first to shoot a stray dog in your yard instead of calling impound to pick them up.
I'm not in the habit of shooting strays. Four of my cats were strays who came to live with me. I really don't know anyone who would shoot a stray. Maybe Michelle does.
Yeah keep calling us thugs, black and ignorant, but if you look at some of our pictures and movies that show how the white man tried to keep us this way then who's ignorant and stupid.
Bam! The race card gets slammed on the table. I've been trumped! It's all whitey's fault. We white people made Michael Vick into a thug. We forced him to buy that property and raise dogs to fight. We forced him to kill the dogs that didn't perform to his satisfaction.
"Electrocute that fucker! It's Arthur Blank's fault for giving me a $130 million contract."
Listen lady, I don't care what color you are, if you act like a thug, you're a thug. If white people did what Michael Vick did, I'd be all over them as well. I'm against cock fighting. I think bull fighting is barbaric. If I were forced to watch one, I'd root for the bull. And as for the thug label, if you act like a gang banger, you're a thug, and I don't give a flying fuck what color you are. Michael Vick tortured and killed dogs. He's not sorry. He's only sorry he got caught and his career is up in flames. He was cautioned about his behavior after the Rolex incident, and Ron Mexico, and the water bottle with the fake bottom. After all that, we have dog fighting and now he's found Jesus.
Just becasue (sic)a white man kills, steals, rape, and murder and does something stupid he is still just a white man to me. No reason to call us out (sic) of your name.
Michelle, if a white man "kills, steals, rape, and murder" he is a thug. Calling someone a thug is not a racist remark, but you're obviously one of those assholes who walks around with a chip on your shoulder looking to be offended. Good for you. I hope getting the AOTW award offends you. It's meant to.
GFY and here's your award.
Y'know what?
I AGREE with Denny's remarks & nomination.
The Vick deal is not about race in any way, shape or form; it's about a dumb-ass.
Ask Vick himself. Better yet, LISTEN to what MV himself has to say about his behavior.
Lady, for this week at least, you have EARNED your award. Have you a color-printer? Why not print, post & frame?
Posted by: Dan S. on September 1, 2007 03:14 AMShe has the typical victim mentality. No changing that in a person once it's established. She's a victim because she's black, she's a victim because she's a woman, and so on and so on. Can we use this forum to make wagers and bet on which political party she's a member of?
Posted by: Ray on September 1, 2007 07:08 AMDenny--I am unfamiliar with the "Rolex Incident". Would you elaborate or provide a URL?
thanks
chuck
Posted by: Chuck on September 1, 2007 07:33 AMChuck - google is your friend:
http://tinyurl.com/3cqoqj
Posted by: B....... on September 1, 2007 09:21 AMmy dad use to say,you could tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his animals.
Posted by: billfry on September 1, 2007 10:09 AMDenny: Was puzzled who this Dan Healy was. Then realized it was Dany Heatley, a Canadian who played with the Thrashers before the fatal crash. Just wanted to set that straight. By the way, love your blogsite.
Posted by: Beardy on September 1, 2007 11:10 AMchuck - Check out the url that B.... posted. In brief, one of his "crew" (What is it with these rap stars and athletes that they have to have an entourage?) lifted a Rolex watch from one of the bins in the security area of Hartsfield Airport. From there the story deviates into many different forms. Suffice it to say there were no charges filed against Vick or his "crew". This is the same "crew" that he went into the dogfight business with, also the same "crew" that Falcons management suggested he quit hanging with. He told them that he wasn't gonna quit hanging with his homeboyz now that he had made it big. He should have listened to Falcons management. Hanging with his "crew" is gonna cost him millions in pay and endorsements. Hope it was worth it. Like I said earlier, he'll be broke by the time he's 40.
Beardy - You are correct. I should have double checked the name rather than relying on Michelle.
Posted by: Denny on September 1, 2007 12:03 PMDenny & B...
Thanks for the Rolex story info. Vick evidently has a "crew" in the Allen Iverson style. [Another fine, upstanding individual.] Birds of a feather...
chuck
Posted by: chuck on September 1, 2007 05:32 PMI think Michelle should get the IAOTW. Prefaced with "I" for ignorant.
Simply put, Michelle you are definately an asshole, and an ignorant one at that!
Posted by: CharlieDelta on September 1, 2007 08:30 PMSo is she calling you racist? This is particularly funny to me because I read your blog for many months before I realized you aren't black. I don't know why I thought you were black (I'm white if it matters), but I did!
Posted by: MJH on September 1, 2007 09:12 PMMJH:
We are ALL ambivalent about our pigmentation here!
:)
Frankly, I think some of the comments reflect a white, Anglo-Saxon point of view.
Posted by: Dan S. on September 1, 2007 11:52 PMIt dawned on me that I am spending too much time on the GOC when I immediatley without thinking knew what GFY meant.
I missed this post when it was orignally posted though. thanks for dragging it out into centre court for me.
Posted by: patrick on September 2, 2007 12:45 AMDanS.......
If one just grabs that which is apparent without stopping to think a bit...yes, it is possible to reach the conclusion you did.
However if you were to think a bit about the fact this individual has since getting out of the cradle been told by the Democratic Party, the NAACP, & every welfare agency she is ENTITLED to anything & everything she desires. She has been told since she was a baby she is a victim, someone who does not fit into American society & is owed by all of white society for the sins of those who enslaved her ancestors ...even if they were not American .
Were she to have been told & taught....... You have been born into the greatest society in the world even if there is racism. you can rise above it with hard work , education & you can be whatever you want to be.She might well have rose to the challenge & succeeded beyond her wildest dreams....just like many White,Hispanic & Asian people have.
Were the Democratic party, NAACP, & the various welfare agencies there to assist,guide her & others to acceptance, integration & real equality instead of pandering for votes, lining the pockets of charlatan race baiters & keeping social workers employed.......This probably would have happened & she would not be the bitter woe-be-gone victim of the liberal welfare racist based system she is.
Yes,there are those who are still racist in this country.....But there are those who see the failure of the welfare system established by the Democratic party & recognize the self-serving reality of it & the dependance it demands from the very people they purport to help.I think you are witnessing a knee jerk reaction to the futility of continuing to support it, not racism.
Posted by: dudley1 on September 2, 2007 08:10 AMDany Heatley was not drunk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dany_Heatley#Vehicular_homicide
"Although alcohol was found in his system, his blood-alcohol content was not over the legal limit."
If he had been drunk he would have done time.
Posted by: Sean on September 2, 2007 09:39 AMdud:
I was (and am) in AGREEMENT with your comment.
My post is in SUPPORT of what Denny posted in his nomination.
I thought "We are ALL ambivalent about our pigmentation here!" took the race-card off the table. I thought that remark indicated that the MERITS (and lack thereof) of her claim were to be the currency of her case.
In short, she's bankrupt in her argument.
Posted by: Dan S. on September 2, 2007 09:49 PMMichelle deserves another award:
The Best Al Sharpton impersonation Award!
Congratulation Michelle, you now can hold your picket sign high, you can feel free to throw the race card down whenever you are losing an argument.
As the winner of this award,
feel free to pick a company at random and ask "How many brothers and sisters you have working here?"
Scan the news for any signs of Whitey keeping the black man down and as always Power to the people...... LMAO
Good pick for AOTW.....
Dans....
Sorry all to hell ...Read faster then my brain was able to process. I should post at home where I have High speed Internet instead of the shop where I can chisel in stone faster then the dial up connection .There is a definate tendency to fall asleep at the keyboard, apparently the dialup service affects brain function!
Posted by: dudley1 on September 3, 2007 08:28 PM