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I spoke about this a little bit today on my facebook status.....
First of all, I am not one of those animal-spooning PETA people.
Nor am I one of those race people.
I AM one of those people who is irritated by hero-worship. If the issue is the BLACK MAN BEING HELD DOWN or BACK or wherever it is white folks are supposed to be putting me, then I can probably count thirty actually regular black dudes who have been victims of institutional racism or injustice in some way worse than Michael Vick.
In fact, how about we start with my entire graduating high school class for having the misfortune of being from a DC Public School?
It annoys me that Vick is some black folks latest cause when there's so much more to be done for ACTUAL black people living right next to me.
Fuck Michael Vick. I don't care what happens to him. I DO care what happens to the 14 year old who saw me at McDonald's this morning and said "Mr. Darden!" and filled me in on his life since the last time I saw him. I was his teacher. He remembered my name. I made an impact on him in some way. He's not out there killing dogs. Good for him. Good for me.
Where's his award? Where's mine? We don't get one -- we DO get to NOT be in the news for being fuck ups though! And that's good enough for me.
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