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NAACP Will Rally For Michael Vick In Philly Debut

Written by News One on August 27, 2009 9:38 am

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From USA Today

Michael Vick is expected to make his NFL preseason debut Thursday night with the Philadelphia Eagles. How he’ll perform after serving a prison term for running a dogfighting ring is one question. How the former Pro Bowl quarterback will be greeted at the game in Philadelphia is another.

J. Whyatt Mondesire, president of the NAACP’s Philadelphia chapter, said Wednesday that his group and others planned to rally outside Lincoln Financial Field in support of Vick.

“Just some folk walking around with some signs saying, ‘Leave him alone, Michael Vick should be allowed to play football,’ nothing elaborate. We heard some PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) people might come and try to make life uncomfortable, and we don’t want them to be out there alone.”

Said PETA national spokesman Dan Shannon: “We don’t have anything planned at this time. I’ve heard that there are going to be some local folks, sort of unaffiliated with PETA, on their own going out to do some sort of a protest. … But PETA isn’t taking an official role in that.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigwillylandis/ bigwillylandis

    seriously. did they have to make this a black thing. why support this dumb ass. there are plenty other black quaterbacks doing good things with their lives and you choose to show up and support the one that represents the black race as if we are still ghetto if we do get money. what the hell the team who they were playing against the jacksonville jaguars have a black quaterback hey had to got through alot more to get to where he is than vick ever did and but no blackplanet decides to concentrate on the dumbasses.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slliks67/ slliks67

    so how long are the people going to sweat VICK for his crime? It is over. In some places dogs are the main menu and those same people from that country live in this country and i bet they still indulge. I guess Vick will need license like deer hunters or bear hunters or any other whiteman so called sport that allows the killing of animals they all need to go sit the hell down, there are more serious problems in the world that need be addressed. child please

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