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By Ant

One sports celebrity got in trouble for illegal dog fighting. He played football and he was the next best player until he went to jail. I wouldn’t think that, that kind of person would go to jail. He played football I wouldn’t think he was fighting dogs. Why would he do something so dumb? He is just like anyone else who would do something dumb when they have something going for themselves. He is a black man from the hood. He went off and became a famous football player, but he could have been pressured by people in the hood who thought he was soft. The people in the hood might have thought he didn’t do the things he used to do when he lived in the hood.

Black men hate to be called soft. That is like calling a man a girl. It is saying he is less of a man. When a man thinks he is less of a man, he is going to try to prove that he is a man by sleeping with a lot of girls or talking real big. He might even do stuff that is unnecessary. The celebrity did illegal stuff to prove that he is still with the hood and he can still get down. What he should have done is not listen to what anybody else says. He made it to the NFL. Not all men can do that. He was more of a man than he thought he was. And this person is Michael Vick.

Everyone knows Mike Vick did his time in jail but he still did not do his suspension for the NFL. When you make the NFL look bad in a case like this you are going to be suspended. The question that everyone is asking is does Mike Vick deserve to play again? Yes, he does. I’m not saying that because he’s this big football player from the hood. I am saying this because everyone deserves a second chance. He should do his suspension, he needs that time to think about what he’s done. But everyone from killers to thugs deserves a second chance if they want it. They can learn from their mistakes.