Michael Vick is right

Michael Vick is right to ignore his critics who want to vilify him as if serving 23 months in a maximum security federal prison, losing his job, being forced into bankruptcy and being separated from his children weren't sufficient punishment enough for his crime. If his critics have their say, Vick will always be spoken of as "Michael Vick, convicted felon." Just recently, CNN gave valuable airtime to a panel of so-called experts who discussed whether or not Vick's statement of remorse was really genuine or rehearsed. Hypocritically, these same critics no doubt have their own dirty little secrets that fortunately for them have so far been hid from public knowledge. I agree that what Vick did to dogs was reprehensible and cruel but so were the White man's offenses against Black people in this country--crimes for which few if any of the perpetrators or their descendants have stated remorse, let alone spent even one night in prison. These crimes against the humanity of Black people are little spoken of and conveniently forgotten. A sportscaster on ESPN weighting in on the Vick debate observed: To err is human; to forgive is divine. In a similar show of support for the underdog (no pun intended), Jesus Christ once told an angry mob that wanted to stone a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone (John 8)." Not one stone was thrown by that angry mob and no one has the right to throw stones now. What's more the Bible says that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." So unless Vick's critics have confessed their own guilt before God they have no right to sit in judgement against him. On that, God has the last word.