For those who missed it, Whoopi Goldberg (the new host of "The View") began her tenure by opening the subject of Michael Vick and giving a excuse for his dog fighting...which she stresses isn't an excuse.

Of course, if she wasn't trying to excuse his behavior you can't help but wonder why she even brought it up.

Anyway she said something to the effect that this is black southern culture and, falling back to Political Correctness looking down on any dark/tan skinned cultures is bad. So taking her non-excuse out to it's logical conclusion Vick is a victim of judgemental, oppressive, overbearing white law.

I'm interested to know if her argument works the other way. Civil Rights leaders have been saying for years that discrimination is a part of white southern culture. But for some reason, that's supposed to be banned by law.

Don't give me this crap about "it's just dogs" and since no human being gets hurt it's okay.

No human being gets hurt when a cross gets burned. No human being gets hurt when racial epithets are hurled. And yet there are laws against those things, laws backed by people like Whoopi. Despite the fact that whites invented the word "n*gger". That word is more a part of white culture than it is black: after all, whites were putting you down long before you thought of putting yourself down. And yet it's not okay for me to say.

Michael Vick broke the law. He admitted it. Now he deserves the consequences. Don't give me this crap about "it's a cultural thing" and "this is just whites taking down a successful black man." You're being held to the same standard with which you hold others. If it's okay to use the government and the law to change parts of a culture you don't like, then it is okay to use the government and the law to change parts of other cultures we don't like.

So stop making (non)excuses, it makes you all sound pathetic.

Jeremy Meister graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Flames of Summer', as well as owning his own film company LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he is a producer for Hansen and Cokin, Last Man Standing, The Clubhouse, Showerless and Mr. Sunshine as well as Sports Book Radio with Brian Blessing at Lotus Broadcasting (AM 1460 and AM 920 - check out the streams at LVRocks.com). Contact him at LWC_Productions@hotmail.com or at www.myspace.com/tzimiscechi or at TownHall.com. Art for the people: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888382/posts