|
![]() |
|
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: San Antonio Tx.
Casino cash: $44454
|
The "White" Mike Vick
WTF was ESPN thinking??
![]() Didnt they fire Limbaugh over this sort of crap 7 or 8 years ago? http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-wp5866 ESPN is under fire Thursday for creating and publishing the Photoshopped image above of Michael Vick(notes) with a white face to accompany a column in ESPN The Magazine entitled "What if Michael Vick were white?" After immediate backlash to the image, which was also posted on ESPN's website, editors replaced the online picture with a regular photograph of Vick. The website then reversed course and, as of 2:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, had restored the original, controversial image to the top of the online story. The picture and headline accompany a thoughtful piece by noted cultural critic Toure on how Vick's race has shaped both the positive and negative aspects of his life. The author dismisses the hypothetical question posed in the article's title saying that changing Vick's race would be to fundamentally change the athlete so much as to render him unknowable. I mean, who would this white Vick be? [...] When you alter his race, it's like those Back to the Future movies where someone goes back in time, inadvertently changes one small thing about his parents' dating history and then the person starts to disappear. If Vick had been born to white parents, you wouldn't even be reading this right now. That Vick would have had radically different options in life compared with the Vick who grew up in the projects of Newport News, Va., where many young black men see sports as the only way out. On his Twitter account, Toure said he asked editors not to use "What if Michael Vick were white?" as the title to the article. He later said he wasn't consulted about the image choice. "Judge me on the story," he wrote, "not the art." If you ever wonder why it's difficult to have intelligent, measured discussions about race in this country, look no further than the picture above. A fine author writes a thought-provoking piece about how the color of your skin has some bearing on the person you become. It molds you like a number of other factors like upbringing, class and parenting. He goes beyond the usual platitudes that we throw into racial discussions so as not to seem insensitive or trite. And all of that is ignored because of a race-baiting headline and a cheap Photoshop job. |
Posts: 68,721
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 |
Everybody Lies.
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: 22 Acacia Avenue
Casino cash: $-2009887
|
People are too sensitive about stuff like this.
|
Posts: 17,859
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
America is great assholes~
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: In some people's mind~
Casino cash: $10027990
|
That looks more like an hispanic Vick~
__________________
The Trump campaign and Black Lives Matter movement are perfect for each other. Both sides filled with easily led and angry nitwits convinced they are victims~ |
Posts: 31,085
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
The pizza king of kansas
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Somewhere in the u.s.a.
Casino cash: $-2289100
|
i thought that was tyler thigpen
__________________
When it's grim, be the grim reaper and go get it. Adopt a chiefs Travis Kelce. You woke up the wrong mother****er! |
Posts: 19,427
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Bump it
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: South Dakota
Casino cash: $-420000
![]() |
He looks like a prick as a white man.
|
Posts: 23,466
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 |
The Illuminati
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: the road less traveled
Casino cash: $9984900
|
I'm still confused.
Why is this such a big deal? |
Posts: 12,033
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Psycho Bag Of Squanch
Join Date: Sep 2001
Casino cash: $9594244
|
I thought so too, with a little Nepalese thrown in.
__________________
“Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Joseph Stalin |
Posts: 69,591
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
Casino cash: $-1681756
|
Here's a man fightin' dogs, electrocute them when they lose.
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes. Then you might know what its like. -Everlast in a Philly uni |
Posts: 37,038
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#9 |
Starter
Join Date: Feb 2010
Casino cash: $8914900
|
What if Mike was one of us...
Just a whitie like one of us... |
Posts: 530
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#10 |
Supporter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Liberty
Casino cash: $-1850000
|
What does Fatlockthink of this?
|
Posts: 17,354
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#11 |
SNAP THE ****ING BALL!!!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: KCMO
Casino cash: $16946
|
|
Posts: 11,978
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#12 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Thigpen's America
Casino cash: $10004900
|
|
Posts: 25,680
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#13 | |
The Illuminati
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: the road less traveled
Casino cash: $9984900
|
Quote:
Who makes up these rules? |
|
Posts: 12,033
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#14 |
America is great assholes~
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: In some people's mind~
Casino cash: $10027990
|
However if this was the case he would have been busted for cock fighting...not near as bad in the eyes of the public~
__________________
The Trump campaign and Black Lives Matter movement are perfect for each other. Both sides filled with easily led and angry nitwits convinced they are victims~ |
Posts: 31,085
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#15 |
Woman should only make babies
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Apartment "G UNIT!"
Casino cash: $-443864
|
mcnulty got permission to do the wire taps. Sheeeeeeeeet
__________________
![]() |
Posts: 54,960
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
|
|