I've been thinking about this.

The majority of those voicing support for vick seem to be predominately African Americans, or groups who claim to represent the AA community. The NAACP, Marbury and other athletes, etc.etc.
There also seems to be an attempt by these people and grps. to add a racial undertone to the issue where there is not one.

Why?

I'm sure the majority of African Americans are against animal cruelty. I would like to hear more community leaders and athletes come forward denouncing vick's actions and dog fighting in general.

I think it's safe to say, the majority of hunters are white. Comparing hunting to dog fighting
IMO, is an attempt to make this a racial issue.
There is no comparing the two.
The fact that an animal is killed is the only comparison.

The cruelty these dogs endured, even before they engaged in the actual fight, and then the unspeakable cruelty the dogs had to endure after they lost or didn't perform up to par ie... electrical shock, drowning, beating etc. all of which ended in the dogs death.
Again, this isn't close to being comparable with hunting.

The vick case is about animal cruelty in the worst way and animal cruelty only.

Young people admire vick, when big name people or org.s come forward defending his actions, they send a terrible message to those kids, ie... Dog fighting is a sport that is no different than hunting, and,
"It's only a dog"..... WTF.

This is a disturbing thing. We've all heard the stats that say people with a history of abusing animals as kids are more likely to be abusive or killers as adults. We certainly don't want to legitimze this behavior.