I disagree that race has much to do with this one. I think there are a few idiots (like Marbury) that divide by those lines, but there is no significant support for Vick. The overwhelming majority of all Americans, whatever color, know Vick f'ed up and deserves the penalties that come his way.
I think you are seeing some great divide that doesn't really exist in this case.
I disagree.....here is just a couple of snippets of an article from a Virginia newspaper from a few weeks ago.....you can search out countless articles from all over the country about how this case has once again opened racial divides in this country. These viewpoints are a microcosm of what is going on all over the country I believe.
The racial divide emerged early in the case against the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, apparent at rallies filled with cheering - and overwhelmingly black - Vick supporters and at anti-Vick protests that are noticeably white.
Tempers flared at Vick's July 26 arraignment in Richmond, where outside the courthouse blacks and whites debated everything from animal rights to slavery
White folks 'been grindin' on an ax ... and that ax ain't got sharp enough for them," said Earnest Hardy Sr., who called the case a witch hunt targeting a successful black man
In the rural county split 50-50 between whites and blacks, the case quickly took a racial bent. At the county courthouse, angry letters urged that whites "take back their town." Critics accuse the commonwealth's attorney, Gerald Poindexter, of stalling an investigation to protect one of his own