The Injustice System...

As I am oddly fascinated by regular goings-on of our current American society, I cannot help but be at a loss for words or even suffer a loss of faith in our society multiple times throughout the week.

A recent example of this has to do with sports, but not exactly. Recently, the National Football League (NFL), specifically its players, have constantly been in the news for troubles with the law. Most notably is that of Michael Vick, who headed up a dog-fighting and illegal cross-state gambling operation. As expected, a vast majority of the outrage has been over the revelations of the heinous mistreatment of the animals. Multiple protests and other such actions have been taken by animal rights groups (as expected), but underneath all that lies the most significant crime in the eyes of the American justice system: the illegal gambling operation.

Animal cruelty may land you a slight amount of time in jail, but most of the time it will just be a hefty fine. The gambling operation is what landed Vick in the slammer for nearly two years, but yet it wasn't the gambling that tortured and executed the animals. As a personal lover of animals, I may not ever forgive Vick for what he did to those dogs but I feel he has paid his debt to society and should have a second chance (and ONLY a second chance), but ironically enough, that isn't what got him in the worst amount of trouble.

More recently, there have been the ordeals of Donte Stallworth and Plaxico Burress. To make a long story short, Plaxico Burress took an unlicensed gun into a club and somehow accidentally shot himself. Stallworth, on the other hand, drove drunk and killed a pedestrian with his car. Take a guess as to who to over a year in prison and who paid a fine and will spend less than a few months in jail?

Like I said, at times I'm just at a loss for words over my loss of faith in American society. To make a somewhat humorous ending out of this, here is a video of uproarious comic Dave Chappelle who ponders "how old is fifteen, really?" and it is somewhat vulgar in the beginning, but he makes a lot of good points starting at about 4.5 minutes in, along what my post is about: