I’ll give my opinion, but read this first:

Quarterback Michael Vick has tried to make amends with animal lovers for his previous dog fιghts, butapparently his demonstrations of good will and pleas for redemption have fallen on deaf ears. As Vick prepares to train with the New York Jets, a Change.org petition is demanding that he be banned from the college campus that hosts the team’s training camp.

“We MUST send the message that we won’t be party to the t*****e of animals by conveniently forgetting what he has done. If we welcome Vick onto our campus, we are complicit in his crimes. We are sending the message that, for money and publicity, we will turn a blind eye to the horrors of dogfιghting. I don’t want to be that person, and I don’t want SUNY Cortland to abandon its principles so easily.”

The petition signers at Change.org aren’t the only ones who still have it out for Vick. A New York Times writer penned an editorial earlier this year encouraged teams not to sign Vick due to his dog fighting past.

“But the Eagles should make it easy for their fans. They should replace Vick with someone devoid of a dark past, someone who hasn’t been in prison for such a reprehensible crime. It’s a pathetically low bar, but it ought to be the bare minimum,” wrote Juliet Macur.

{via Your Black World}

Quite frankly, this has pissed me off.  Seriously.  It makes me furious.

Now, when this all went down I was mad at him. I really was. And I believed he should pay for what he did (I love dogs).  But the thing about that is, HE PAID FOR WHAT HE DID.

This reminds me so much of why black men go right back to doing wrong.  In and out of jail.  Those who don’t have as many resources as Michael Vick does, and I’m sure that even he is getting tired of having to continually deal with this.  He made a mistake.  He paid for said mistake.  And every day since then he has tried to make these people happy and redeeming himself.  But if people are going to continue to throw your wrong-doing in your face, even when you have done NOTHING else to warrant such attention…ugh.

Who in the hell do these people think they are?  Yeah, he has a past….but that is his PAST! There are people in the NFL (no names but let’s talk about RAPE), who have done FAR worse, and they just get a pass. Hmm. Wonder why that is.

I hope he goes on their campus and smiles all in their faces.  I feel badly for him.  No man should have to continue to pay for his crimes when, legally, they have already been paid for.

Shame on everybody involved.