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Since the Eagles signed him to a one-year, $1.6 million contract with a $5.2 million option for next season, Michael Vick has been a polarizing lightning rod, creating a moral and racial divide for a region of football fans. On the sidewalk outside Lincoln Financial Field Thursday night, a smattering of animal activists and about 30 members of the Philadelphia NAACP used Vick’s return to the NFL as a flashpoint for their causes. “We’re tired of people saying he should not be given a second chance,” Philadelphia NAACP leader Jerry Mondesire told a crowd of reporters outside the west entrance of the Linc. “If you listen to talk radio, you hear a lot of racism and the NAACP is not going to …

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