No, the issue isn't that Vick broke federal laws and tortured hundreds of animals, it's that the white man is holding his multimillionaire ass down!
Well, just look at your post.
Even though you're arguing that this isn't a racial issue, you tag your post with a picture that is undeniably racist.
Look at the posts that have been in all of these Michael Vick threads- "Criminal behavior is genetic among blacks",etc.
I mean, seriously, there are many non-blacks who have turned this into a race issue irrespective of Vick's actual conduct- or more succinctly, they're "playing the race card"- so it's not really hard to understand why some blacks would view this as an attack on blacks.
I think what Vick is accused of doing is appalling, but the "race card" is inevitably played by more than one party in cases like this.