Whoopi Goldberg Defends Michael Vick

Whoopi Goldberg's first day on the job at The View was a memorable one, as the actress/pylon defended Michael Vick and his dog fighting antics:

"You know from his background this is not an unusual thing for where he comes from," said Goldberg.

"There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country."

Co-host Joy Behar seemed shocked at Goldberg's statements.

"How about dog torture and dog murdering," Behar asked.

"Unfortunately it's part of the thing," Goldberg replied.

"You're a dog lover. For a lot of people dogs are sport," she added.

"This is part of his cultural upbringing," said Goldberg.

But Goldberg continued to defend Vick saying "This is a kid who comes from a culture when this is not questioned."

Although what Whoopi said may sound disgusting, maybe it's true. Maybe murdering animals is a cultural thing in the black south, maybe killing dogs really is a sport where Vick grew up.

Now, I'm assuming Vick grew up in a heavily black area in the south, just because his cohorts in crime are all black and Whoopi seems to know about black southern culture. What does that tell you then? What kind of insight did Whoopi give America this morning?

Well, if what Whoopi said is true, and this is a cultural thing, then that means that many black Americans from the southern states put a value on an animals life at zero. Whether dogs die by a beating, a burning, thrown from a bridge, strangled, lit on fire, it can all be explained away as normal, typical black behaviour because it's a cultural thing. Yes, normal.

I'm sure you can enlighten me as to what else this means, I'm curious what your take is on this.

Defending the indefensible