Nike reinstates Michael Vick....Really??? - Page 5

{shakes heads} and runs from crazy talk.

Kim, not many in the celebrity world, and that includes atheletes, are shunned for long by their fans for their actions. Still all about the money.

Chaz, even though Vick didn't pay the price that many think he should have paid, he's done all that he's been asked to do and has performed. I know that the NFL did their job. They are a business as Nike is too,
and that has been my point. The fans have forgiven him, as they want to see him play football, so the dollars keep coming in.

When you personally participate in the electrocution, beating and hanging deaths of dogs you are a sociopath and sociopaths do NOT rehabilitate.  He had gotten in other trouble before that and I am sure he will again.  He said he was sorry, but was he sorry when they were bleeding out of ripped flesh for his amusement, was he sorry when he tortured them, when they screamed in pain, when he hung them and watched them die or was he just sorry when he was going to lose money or his career???

He is scum, and do not DO NOT tell me about African American culture...bullsh@#$ excuse for criminal behavior and I say that as a mother of an African American son and a graduate of Howard University.

I would spit in this mans face, but it would be a waste of my spit.  He is worse that dogsh*& on the bottom of my shoe.  If it were legal, I'd like to see him suffer the exact same fate that he subjected these dogs to. 

I WILL NEVER BUY A NIKE PRODUCT AGAIN.

The problem with hunger4justice is that she's too meek.

We'd  make a hell of a team, Jenn..lol

Jenni, I think Hunger has been spending too much time with you, lol. You go girls, I love ladies with strong minds and opinions, oh yes!!!!

"Keith - Now does that same though go across the board for everyone and not just Michael Vick? Meaning, a child molester, a "former Klans member", etc?  Are you saying that depending on the crime, we can say if a person can change?"

In the case of a child molester, Ace; that is exactly what I'm saying and the statistics on recidivism support that assertion.  In the case of a former Klan member, it's not so clear because being a member of that group, however distateful, is not in and of itself a crime and it may be possible that someone who once identified with that group could, through life experiences, come to realize how warped their thinking is.  If, however, that person, for example, took part in a lynching as a member of the group, he/she is beyond being rehabilitated.

Let's be clear; Michael Vick and his cohorts held dogs' heads under water in a five gallon bucket drowning them while they thrashed and fought for their lives.  You can't "fix" someone capable of such a heinous act.

Ditto.

You cannot do such things with your own hands and be capable of rehabilitation.

He sickens me. How anyone could do that to any living thing is unfathomable. Pit Bulls are so trusting of humans as a whole; I look at mine, happy go lucky, as innocent as can be, and get nauseous thinking about someone like Vick.

for all those who are boycotting Nike:

Are you also boycotting the watching of professional football?
(They were the first to reinstate him).
Are you also boycotting all of the companies that advertise during professional football games?
(Advertising dollars is where his salary comes from).

Not a big professional football fan anyway.  As for boycotting Nike and its subsidiaries, Michael Vick did some pretty horrific things to animals that were probably still loyal up to the bitter end, we all know how loyal dogs are.  A person that can not only condone such acts but carry them out personally has a moral compass so far off true that he would probably have difficulties finding his own a** if it wasn't within arms reach.  Someone on the board called him a sociopath, I believe he has more psychopathic tendencies, that is, he knows what he did was wrong, made a conscious choice to go back time and again and continue with the behavior, enjoyed it, and didn't really become contrite until he was caught.  Question is, if he hadn't been caught, would he still be carrying on the same behaviors?  Would he have gotten worse as time went on because he hadn't been caught yet?  What would his children have learned because children know much more about what is going on around them then many give them credit for.