Dogs, Mexicans, and the Legal System

You know there is a serious problem in this country and many people would jump immediately to the growing financial deficit that became a part of American culture in.. the 1700's but that is a conversation for another day. Today, I want to give you some insight into another problem that is gripping this country. If I asked you who got away with the most criminal acts, there would be an unanimous response of the rich and the famous. Of course, this holds true in most cases such as Lindsey Lohan or Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston(CRACK BABY!). So, I guess I want to talk about that 1% of the rich and the famous.

Let's take three recently convicted football stars, for example: Michael Vick, Donte' Stallworth, and Plaxico Burress.

What do all three of them have in common? All of them are black males, all of them are football players, and they are all rich as fuck. We can agree on those three things correct? Throw in some subtleties such as Burress having a Super Bowl ring, Vick being one of the most athletic players in recent history and Stallworth.. well, Stallworth will have to work on that..

Each of them on an individual basis are all in the media for their various laws which they have broken, and that, my dear reader, will lead you to what I am talking about. Let's start with Donte' Stallworth.

One faithful night, Stallworth was driving drunk and killed a man. Vehicular manslaughter, of course wreckless operation and the plethora of other charges need be tacked on. Now, in most cases this carries a hefty sentence in jail. I was expected little Donte' to be locked up for at least(emphasis on the at least) 15 years. However, he got nothing more than a slap on the wrist, 20 some-odd days in jail and probation. Captain Rich and Famous strikes again right?

Let's compare Stallworth to the other of the three who inflicted bodily harm on a human, Plaxico Burress, Plax, the Super Bowl hero who embarrassed Ellis Hobbs to spoil the Patriot's perfect season. Burress was charged with the despicable crime of shooting himself with an unlicensed gun. I'm assuming if the gun had been licensed that he would have been charged with Public Stupidity. After a long process, Plax plead guilty to the charge and is now facing at least 2 years in jail for being a dumbass. Way to go New York laws!

Now, the most fiendish, the most horrible, the most dasterdly, the most inhumane of the three.. Michael Vick. As a forewarning, I am in no way condoning what Vick did. I am instead laughing at the fact that Vick was proverbially suplexed in the terms of his sentence. What did Vick do? We all know what he did... he fought dogs... WRONG! He funded a dog fighting ring, he supposedly killed the dogs himself. I find that hard to believe. What owner of a business does anything themselves? Ask yourself that question first.

Vick was sentenced by the federal government under the RICO Act to 23 months in prison, along with a bunch of other shit Virginia tacked on that I can't be assed to look up. Just know that if he gets a speeding ticket, he'll probably be going back to jail for a good while.

I present this question to you. Is funding a dog fighting ring worse than running a man over? Is shooting yourself worse than running a man over? I honestly think it was because the man that Stallworth hit was of Hispanic descent so no one cared.

So in this country, we are telling the world. We hold dogs above anyone from a Spanish-speaking nation(or people who accidentally shoot themselves or failed "self-murderers").