[DWarrior]

Originally Posted by invader

The fact that Chris Brown and Michael Vick are black, is irrelevant to the resiliency of their carriers. Michael Vick served almost two years in prison then was on house arrest for another two months. Which is way more than any regular Joe would have gotten for the same crime. But, hey he was making millions then too, so fuck him right? Now he is starting a “new life” after prison. He has skills as a quarterback and people are willing to invest in him. If he leads his team to a super bowl its going to be because of his skills/talent that he posses independent of his past transgressions. He may not get many endorsement deals on the side, which is 100% understandable and up to each individual company to decide. But I get the feeling it doesn’t matter that he did his time, people want to see him broken and penny-less. Regardless of the fact that he has a talent worth millions. Hell the fact that what he can do is worth millions is more of a commentary on our country, than any other.

Chris Brown’s continued success has everything to do with his fan base, everyone that isn’t okay with what he did to Rihanna and feels that he shouldn’t have a career, most likely, wasn’t supporting his career in the first place. Most of Chris Brown’s fan base was horny teenage girls, and the rest are most likely even hornier middle age women. They were the ones buying the tickets and going to concerts and I’m willing to bet that in their head they were more excited over the fact that Chris Brown is now single, cause in their heads it means that they now have a shot at him.

Michael Richards’ rant happened long after Seinfeld had ended, what was he doing between the end of Seinfeld and the infamous rant, other than enjoying the millions he made acting on the award winning show (and who could blame him for that)? Lets speculate that even if he was chained to the role of Kramer and most casting people didn’t really want to touch him unless he was going to reprise the role. I’m willing to bet he had enough clout that networks would have still taken a chance on him… until his rant. The networks try to market to everyone and the fact that Michael Richards pissed off any part of a potential viewer base made him not worth the risk.

As for Mel Gibson I don’t think its over for him, but even if it was, it was after multiple fuck ups; like the now infamous “sugar tits incident.” after which he had at least two movies that were box office success’. Even now I'm sure he still has a fan base that he could sell to.

It has nothing to do with race, just don’t piss off your core fan base, or have a marketable talent. Look at Roman Polanski, drugging a kid and then raping her, served no time, never answered for his actions at all. And his career is excellent.

That is correct