So today, a white guy in my office just told me that Michael Vick was the victim of a conspiracy.
Now, it doesn’t really matter that he’s white. He’s from Surrey County Virginia and apparently was tangentially associated with Vick, Allen Iverson (AI to him) and Marcus Vick as well.
The reason I mention it is that we were having a grown up discussion, and then he drops the “If Michael wasn’t a rich black athlete, they’d never have served that warrant.”
I turned around and looked behind him to see if Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson had one of their hands up his ass pulling the string to make his mouth move.
Then he went on to say, “If I won 100 Million dollars in the lottery and gave some to my cousin, and that cousin went out and bought drugs with that money, should they be able to prosecute me?”
He also said that there were “no credible witnesses that could tie Vick to the dogfighting operation.” I am assuming he meant besides the people that sold him the house, the myriad people that admitted to being there with him, betting with him, seeing him there for years and often, and ultimately going to jail for said things.
Now, after I avoided choking on my tongue and remembering I was at work, I said “Ray Buchanan (former pro-bowl cornerback and Falcon teammate) said Vick had been into dogfighting for years and that he (Ray) had known about it for at least six years.”
My co-worker’s reply?
“Ray’s not credible. He got busted trying to pick up a hooker the night before the SuperBowl.”
“Um…no. Not at all. That was actually Eugene Robinson, whom the Falcons got that year. And he was a safety.”
His rebuttal? “Yeah, well earlier this year Ray got busted writing bad checks.”
Sigh.
Then I mentioned that Vick plead out, which means you plead to the least amount of bad stuff you think they’ll accept. No one pleads to MORE than what they are guilty of. Although I wouldn’t put it past MENSA-applicant Michael “don’t call me Ron Mexico” Vick.
I saw plenty of completely ignorant people of color as well as ignorant white people on television during the Mike Vick story, and there was plenty of dumbassery to go around. There’s always some knucklehead or group of knuckleheads (aka the NAACP) that will scream conspiracy or use the SODDI defense. That’s the “some other dude did it” defense.
I imagine that my co-worker also feels that another semi-famous, certainly wealthy black man from around that area was prosecuted unfairly.
You might remember that grainy FBI surveillance tape where many time loser and race pimp Marion Berry was in a hotel room with a hooker that was not his wife and is actually on tape smoking cocaine, and the best defense he could muster was “THE BITCH SET ME UP!!”
Mike wasn’t investigated, indicted, prosecuted and convicted because he was a successful and rich black athlete. He was prosecuted and convicted for the same reasons that many other folks far less rich, famous and black than him are:
He was stupid.
He believed he was above the law.
He believed he was invincible.
Oh, and he was incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly stupid.
Ultimately, being stupid gets far more people convicted than being famous, rich or black does. Want proof? Go find out how many MENSA members are in our nation’s penitentiaries.
My guess? It ain’t many.
What say you?