This morning, ESPN ran a column titled "What if Michael Vick were white?" Accompanying the column was a picture of the quarterback utilizing the digital equivalent of "white face."
Immediate reaction to the column, which will appear in ESPN The Magazine's Sept. 5 issue, was knee-jerk, swift and overwhelmingly negative.
Many sports fans hate when issues of race are even brought up. If that's you, you're probably in the wrong column. More significantly, the response was interestingly centered less on the article itself and much more on the picture (which has since been, justifiably, removed)—hearkening back to days when this was considered appropriate.
Don't misunderstand—simply digitizing Vick is not a crime worthy of picketing The Worldwide Leader. The issue here is ESPN deciding to pander to the lowest common ...
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