Despite NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s highly publicized lock-up for funding a dog fighting ring, his lukewarm message that the enterprise is cruel rather than cool is running cold in some urban and suburban neighborhoods. As recently as last week, a non-inner city Chicago day care center was shut down when its dual purpose as a dog fighting site was discovered. No children were injured and although rescued, nine dogs, body parts and flesh ripped in barbaric battle, required surgery - one pup lost an eye and another’s genitals were severed.
Right on to the columnist who cited “the real lesson in the Vick conviction is that dog fighting remains a national scourge” in the NYT’s Sunday edition because it perturbs me each time I see young black men, jeans sloppily sagging, shuffling down an urban sidewalk with a Pit Bull in ghetto fabulous tow. Shaken or stirred, the mix is hardly suggestive of a relationship within acceptable animal companionship bounds.
The NFL commissioner, ravenous for revenue, reinstated Vick but the conviction ensures the timeline in shedding the notorious dog fighting collar will likely exceed the years left in the former Atlanta Falcon’s football career. Reportedly, arrests and convictions are up across the nation; however, the dog fighting financier must growl louder because some obviously aren’t ‘trying to hear him.’ Until this violent breed of boys in the hood is aggressively chased and caged like Mike, urban communities will continue to be plagued by dog fighting’s pathological poop.
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