For athletes and other people who experience professional success, keeping it real should mean offering your lifelong friends and family members an opportunity to acquire the skills necessary to join the mainstream.
This may sound naïve and a bit comical, but it’s the truth: Rather than financing dogfighting, Vick should’ve paid for educational opportunities. He should’ve tried to help establish his cousins and friends in a legitimate business.
If they were uninterested in that, Vick should’ve informed them that he had nothing but love for ’em. No matter the problem, you can’t help people who are uninterested in helping themselves. You have to develop the courage to stop someone else’s weakness from drowning you. Vick, to me, is a coward. He wasn’t man enough to define for his friends what was in his best interest and what he would and would not tolerate.
Helping a friend or family member wallow in stupidity or self-destructive behavior is not keeping it real. It’s enabling a problem, a problem that could eventually engulf you. Ask Michael Vick.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Keeping it Real?
Jason Whitlock with another interesting take on the Michael Vick story:
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Michael Vick is an extremely unintelligent person as everyone on the planet may have known or may finally have realized the truth by now. If you have'nt realized that he is total stupidity in the walking then let me give you a quick peek at how atheletes are treated and pushed through college totally and not what-so-ever based on their intelligence level but solely based on their muscular and athelitic ability. I went through college where many sports stars were given an absolutely completely different test than we were given because they were the "special" people requiring a special grade to make absolutely sure they passed through that particular class. Michael Vick was one of those "special" people that did not have to abide by or pass any silly test the college dished out, he got a full pass and a college degree on paper. Truth be known - he is still one stupid individual walking the earth but he is muscular, agile and can run down a football field really fast. Michael Vick made the mistake when he actually surounded himself with people that were less intelligent than himself which caused the problem of him losing his empire of 200+ million. He is a total lunatic loser without a brain that unfortunately had no direction from anyone above the IQ OF 30 to try and direct him to the right path. He's not alone in his championship partners because a lot of famous stars don't want anyone smarter than them in their entourage so they can ultimately feel the most powerful and that is where the problem comes in when the brainless makes the decisions that gets them in trouble. Do you see the problem here? Jailtime, financial loss, credibility, personal destruction, - Michael is the absolutely the biggest retard loser on the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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