Why We Should Apologize To Michael Vick

You read that right.  I have concluded that it is in fact the time to apologize to Michael Vick.  I have had an epiphany that the outrage against Vick is in fact, just a reflection on the paradoxical hypocrisy of white hubris.

"I'm not a racist, you're a racist, for thinking I'm a racist!"

I apologize.  It is that simple.

To demand contrition from someone like Vick is in essence a demand for submission.  To a person like Vick, that is just a call for him to once again be obsequious to a master, and you cannot spell obsequious without IOU (The Simpsons; Forrester, Brent; "Homer vs. Patty and Selma;" 1995).

Must be why some people think that the *real* message of Christ is about power.

That is why many people are unwilling to even apologize or understand the long-term ramifications and pernicious ripple-effect that slavery and segregation have had through the institutionalized hegemony over blacks by whites.  Whites are just as unwilling to concede as much through an apology.

The irony is that, someone like Vick knows that what he did was wrong.  He will even say that publicly, and want to mean it.  On another level, however, that will only erode the will power of someone like Vick. 

The more that someone like Vick has to apologize for a crime no matter how gruesome, the more it is a reminder that no one has apologized for the crimes that still affect communities created in the aftermath of slavery—the type of communities that gave birth to dog fighting.  Someone like Vick knows that his actions are wrong, but would rather bust you in the mouth than to apologize to you.

I can already hear the churlish cries of derision, and the hate mail: "bleeding heart," "what, “you’re an idiot," "this is awful," "irrelevant," "(fill in the blank)," so on and so forth.  If you do resort to such gauche responses, then I do not care about what you think.

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