CNN Posts Racist Comment.
So I'm reading a CNN article on how the image of the Pit Bull is being further marred by the Vick case, and I come across these paragraphs:
The blood sport has operated underground for years, but many agree the hip hop use of pit bull images moved it out of the shadows -- and the Vick case placed it at center stage.
The star quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, who is black, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in U.S. District court in Richmond, Virginia, on charges of sponsoring, along with three others, a brutal dogfighting ring on property he owns in Smithfield, site of their Bad Newz Kennels.
What does Michael Vick being black have to do with price of tea in China? It's an absurd, racist comment that has no bearing on the article. The context of the article doesn't justify the need to call out Vick's ethnicity either. Hip Hip isn't exclusively Black. The Rural South is not exclusively black. The commentary is total unnecessary.
An CNN editor somewhere should get their wings snipped.
Comments
Look at this week's ESPN article about the "electronic lynching" of Vick as posed by civil rights advocates like Abernathy's wife and J.E.Lowery. An interesting perspective to be considered.
Posted by: Arin mason | August 8, 2007 02:06 AM