MSNBC's Carlson called NAACP "a sad joke that should be shut down"

By the way, I'm not saying that you're buttressing your argument that it's solely genetics and culture that creates crime, but I think many times we rather focus on the effect rather than the cause whenever people bring up "culture" into the argument. No one ever ponders what creates this culture, and when one do ponders about this, one rest their arguments and theories on genetics, which is a completely lazy way to theorize the behavior of certain blacks. Blacks more than any other racial/ethnic group in this country are always used as a text-book study to contradistinguish between other ethnic groups when demonstrating other group’s success and failures. As Toni Morrison once said, “…everywhere I went in the world where there were black people, somebody said, What about the blacks and Asians? What do you think about the blacks and the Mexicans? Or, in New York at one time, blacks and Puerto Ricans? The only common denominator is blacks.”

I'm not sure you have your facts entirely in line. I'm imagining one of the people you say praised Hitler as a 'great man' was Pat Buchanan. As far as I can find, this is simply not the case. This is what Buchanan said:

'Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him...Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.'

Louis Farrakhan on the other hand, said this:

So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler'. Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."

To be fair, Farrakhan does FINALLY refer to Hitler as a 'wicked killer,' but that's after he refers to 'Hitler' as a good name, and Hitler as a 'great man.' In contrast, Buchanan's words barely even qualify as being mildly insensitive. Still, that quote seems to be one of the fundamental arguments for Pat Buchanan's anti-Semitism. That's a pretty weak foundation.   

However, I’m not sure I agree with you that this sport is more popular within black neighborhoods than other areas. By saying that it’s popular within the black community, that is giving one the impression that dogfighting is a sport that is dominant in most black households, and that’s false.

I don't think that's what I said. If that's how it came off, I'm sorry. I think what I said was that the particular breed of dogs (called 'pit' bulls for a reason) is more popular within the black community. I did say that wealthy black men were now a lot of time and money in a hobby that was historically associated with white trash southern boys and hillbillies. I said that shift seems to be significant one that may shine light onto why the pit bull is such a popular breed among African Americans.

As to the rest of your points regarding stereotypes, I don't really think I have anything to offer to rebut those statements. I'm not sure I said a lot that would suggest I needed a lesson on either sociology or enviromental biology. I don't believe in an aggressive black gene. I simply said that most all of our behavior can be traced, in some way, back to our genetics or our culture/upbringing. You seem to be saying essentially the same thing.

I'm not here to ridicule the NAACP. Nor am I here to defend Tucker Carlson. All I've said with regard to the NAACP is that their presence by the side of Michael Vick in this story gives credence to a narrative held by many in the black community: that Michael Vick is the victim in this case.

How you come to that conclusion is beyond me. I’m not sure when the survey of the “black community” was taken and I have not seen it nor been asked to participate. Do the black people I know think Michael Vick is a “victim” as you say? No they think the media coverage of Michael Vick is over the top. They think the reason that there was so much coverage of Michael Vick is he is a wealthy, black, athlete accused of a crime. I must also add that you have stated that if the NAACP wanted to pick a “victim”. You choose not only the word “victim” but you assigned it to the NAACP.

They have taken NO official position on the Vick case therefore they have not “picked” as you say a “victim”. Again the Atlanta chapter said that they wanted to “aid” in his rehabilitation which I took to mean after he served his punishment.

That statement in no way says anything regarding “racially motivated charges it simply addresses the treatment of Michael Vick. Where you found “racially motivated charges I don’t know. There is no actual proof that Vick is being treated any different that but the history of MSM allows one to raise the question IMO.

Let me clarify myself for you. IMO, if you have the opportunity to play a game you love while making 130 million and you throw it away on dog fighting, murdering your ex girlfriend or driving while intoxicated or something else, that IS insane. To work hard to reach your goals and throw it all away is IMO insane. I hope that is clear enough for you.

Unless I’m mistaken I have never justified Michael Vick's dog fighting. The purpose was to inform you that there are many many people from all walks of life you participate in dog fighting. I knew that dog fighting was popular in gangs but did not know that law-enforcement officers as well as other participated in the so called “sport”. That was simply shared information.

I stated as clearly as possible that I'm not here to defend Michael Vick.

I also have a son. He's only one, so this story is obviously lost on him, but I definitely respect the sentiment that our children need role models. Historically, people have looked--perhaps unfairly--to professional athletes to fill that hole, and in the current world of sport, those role models seem few. Even the truly inspiring stories like that of Lance Armstrong are seen through a new filter that cast doubt on authenticity of their acheivements. 

While I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think Lewis Hamilton in Formula One is a good example. Formula One is simply not as popular a sport as professional Football. And Michael Vick is a major star who's going to prison because he did not stay on the up and up. If that's not an important lesson for all of our children to learn, I don't know what is.

As for positive role models for a young black man in sport, I think it's easy to find instances of more prominent examples than Hamilton. Tiger Woods won the PGA championship (again), Dwayne Wade was SI's Sportsman of the Year, and, perhaps most significant, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith became the first black head coaches to ever lead their teams to the Super Bowl. Dungy's Colts won. And if you go back to the coverage of the event, the significance of a black coach leading his team to the Super Bowl did not go underreported.

And if we're to look beyond the world of sports for a moment, the most inspiring of all the presidential candidates of either party this year happens to be an African American. 

But again, I absolutely empathize with the sentiment of your point. I just reject the notion that a story of a single event could ever rival a raid, an idictment, and an eventual conviction. Especially when the crime is so gruesome.

As for the OJ thing, you're absolutely entitled to your opinion. I disagree with your opinion. But you're absolutely entitled to it.