Looks like Mike Vick's magic carpet ride has crashed and burned. And unless he can hire a few hounds from the law firm of Cut, Throat & Associates to save the remaining gluteus on his maximus, the Falcons and the NFL will snuff out Vick's career like a cheap cigarette. He has now been reduced to nothing more than the next link in the NFL commissioner's food chain. The NFL prodigy who looked like he could fire a pass through a funnel cloud is now caught up in a tornado of bad press, irate ownership, hideous legal entanglements, and pathetic protesters from the Tree Huggers Society who sanctimoniously and shamelessly exploit Vick's car crash of a career for their own selfish causes. The Falcons now face an even larger dilemma: The Falcons without Vick is like an Italian restaurant without the pasta and the meat.
Meanwhile . another young black male in Newport News, Va., Vick's hometown, has been shot and killed in another drive-by shooting. Some woman who was abducted weeks ago has not been found and cannot find a sympathetic press to spill any ink in their newspapers about her welfare. The malnourished schoolchildren try to learn with outdated books and apathetic, incompetent teachers and crumbling schools. And that's after they pinball through their neighborhoods to and from school, trying to escape the predatory jaws of danger and temptations that litter their crime-ridden, drug-infested communities. The children's parents continue to wallow in misery and disenchantment, subsisting on charities and welfare while jobs - along with hope - continue to make a mass migration overseas. Many of the families' sons and daughters return home from Iraq in pieces after sacrificing their lives for a nation that regards them with repulsion, contempt and suspicion.
Our nation has no time and money to eradicate these cultural killers. Yet the United States government has tens of millions of dollars left over to go after Vick, instead of going after the social ills that produce people like Vick. -terry shropshire