Posted on 12/06/2009 10:13:44 AM PST by Zakeet
Associated Press headline:
Tiger’s Troubles Widen His Distance From Blacks
‘Two layers of suspicion ... one is the pattern in the race of his partners’
The article that followed labeled the golfer racist not only for "declin[ing] to identify himself as black," but also because of "the race of the women" he's involved with.
On top of this, the AP made the case that America's fascination with Woods's philandering is only because he's cheating with white women (h/t NB reader Matthew Noll):
Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles — the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses — little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer.Except in the black community.
When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops started humming, and Woods' already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating.
The article continued with this theme:
As one blogger, Robert Paul Reyes, wrote: "If Tiger Woods had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great's accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere."
Wow! So America is also racist because we're only interested in this story due to the color of Woods's mistresses.
But it gets worse:
The darts reflect blacks' resistance to interracial romance. They also are a reflection of discomfort with a man who has smashed barriers in one of America's whitest sports and assumed the mantle of the world's most famous athlete, once worn by Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.But Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his African-American father and Thai mother.
So Woods is wrong for not considering himself black even though he is one quarter Chinese, one quarter Thai, one quarter African-American, one eighth American Indian, and one eighth Dutch?
But there was yet more racial absurdity in this piece:
This vexed some blacks, but it hasn't stopped them from claiming Woods as one of their own. Or from disapproving of his marriage to Elin Nordegren, despite blacks' historical fight against white racist opponents of mixed marriage.
So, blacks have historically fought against "white racist opponents of mixed marriage":
"But at the same time we still see him as a black man with a white woman, and it makes a difference," said Johnson Cooper, a 26-year-old African-American from New York City. "There's just this preservation thing we have among one another. We like to see each other with each other."
Wow! So, on the one hand, blacks have fought against "white racist opponents of mixed marriage." BUT, they're against black men marrying white women.
Not only did the AP miss this hypocrisy, it actually defended it:
This tendency may be more prominent due to a relative lack of interracial marriages among average blacks. Although a recent Pew poll showed that 94 percent of blacks say it's all right for blacks and whites to date, a study published this year in Sociological Quarterly showed that blacks are less likely to actually date outside their race than are other groups."There is a call for loyalty that is stronger in some ways than in other racial communities," said the author of the study, George Yancey, a sociology professor at the University of North Texas and author of the book "Just Don't Marry One."
The color of one's companion has long been a major measure of "blackness" — which is a big reason why the biracial Barack Obama was able to fend off early questions about his black authenticity.
"Had Barack had a white wife, I would have thought twice about voting for him," Johnson Cooper said.
So do Woods' women say something about the intensely private golfer's views on race?
"I would like to say no, but I think it garners a bit of a yes," Johnson Cooper said.
Wow!
So if Michelle Obama was white, blacks wouldn't have voted for her husband?
Somehow the AP missed this racist hypocrisy as well.
Add it all up, and Woods is racist for cheating with white women, Americans are racist because they wouldn't be interested in this story if his mistresses were black, and it's okay for blacks to resent black men that are involved with white women.
Any questions?
Have to remember that the first “Black” president, only messed with white women... or at least that is what is reported....
Oh man, if a white person had muttered these words when interviewed Jesse and Al would be all over him like... Well... like white on rice.
It’s a status thing. You make it in the white world, ie, golf and lotsa dough, you get a white trophy. You can have the head stuffed and mounted, or if you think you’re rich enough, you can have the whole live blonde — either way she’s stuffed and mounted.
I find it interesting that blacks are using the same “measure” that the old South did to determine race . . . one drop of black blood makes you black (and thereby subject to segregation and Jim Crow laws). The President is half white, but that almost never comes up. Race pimping is a strange business.
“But at the same time we still see him as a black man with a white woman, and it makes a difference,” said Johnson Cooper, a 26-year-old African-American from New York City.
Proof that racism comes in ALL COLORS.
Folks you cannot make this stuff up.
Well reverse racism and the old double standard!!!!!!!!!
I’m just waiting for them to find out what whether he likes vanilla or chocolate ice cream. That will be the deciding factor.
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I so enjoy it when they mix up the “can’t help it, born that way” line with the “choice is everything” line. It’s a lot of fun making them try to reconcile the two.
Black women are famously hostile to eligible black men taking up with white women...it puts the black women at a disadvantage. Look at the nasty things said about Clarence Thomas.
The way this story is heading, it probably will be that many women in total.
This explains it all for me from the article.
“Had Barack had a white wife, I would have thought twice about voting for him,” Johnson Cooper said.
Tiger Woods does not see himself as black.
http://www.salon.com/april97/tiger970430.html
Cablinasian like me
TIGER WOODS’ REJECTION OF ORTHODOX RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS POINTS THE WAY
TO A FUTURE WHERE RACE WILL NO LONGER DEFINE US.
BY GARY KAMIYA
it was one of those peculiar, almost farcical moments that occasionally arise in the turgid melodrama of American racial politics. After Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament, the media went into a veritable orgy of racial sentimentality. The 21-year-old golf phenom was touted as the Great Black Hope, the putter-wielding equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr. Pundits waxed poetic about the cosmic social significance of Woods’ feat, and those treacly “I am Tiger Woods” ads seemed to gain complete control of the airwaves. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary celebrations of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of baseball’s color line — an event of unimaginably greater significance — Woods’ coronation as the Black Prince of the Country Club gave America a chance to engage in its favorite ritual, the recitation of warm (if not Fuzzy) racial platitudes. While blacks celebrated the triumph of one of their own in a lily-white sport, whites wiped away tears and congratulated themselves on their remarkable progress. The choreographed racial minuet was proceeding as smoothly as a 30-second Nike spot.
And then Tiger Woods said he wasn’t actually “black” at all — he was “Cablinasian.”
Woods made his remarks on “Oprah,” when he was asked if it bothered him to be called an African-American. “It does,” he said. “Growing up, I came up with this name: I’m a ‘Cablinasian.’” As in Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian. Woods has a black father (or to be precise, if I am interpreting Woods’ reported ancestry correctly, a half-black, one-quarter American Indian, one-quarter white father) and a Thai mother (or, with the same caveat, a half-Thai, half-Chinese mother). “I’m just who I am,” Woods told Oprah Winfrey, “whoever you see in front of you.”
But just “who I am” remained contested ground. According to Time magazine, Woods’ coming out as a Cablinasian caused “a mini-racial firestorm ... Woods’ remarks infuriated many African Americans who ... see him as a traitor ... Some blacks saw Woods’ assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of ‘passing.’” Light-skinned Colin Powell, responding to Woods’ comments, “In America, which I love from the depths of my heart and soul, when you look like me, you’re black.”
Adding fuel to the fire stirred up by Woods’ comments are their political implications. Congress is considering adding a multiracial category to the 2000 census, and supporters of the controversial new category immediately seized upon Woods’ statement as evidence that the old categories — black, white, Asian and Pacific Islander, native American and “other” — are inadequate. Civil rights groups like the NAACP, who are bitterly opposed to adding the multiracial category because they fear it will lead to a loss of black political and economic clout, are not likely to enjoy the spectacle of Woods becoming a poster child for multiracialism.
I’m not putting forward Tiger Woods as a role model, racial or otherwise. I don’t know anything about him, except that he seems to respect both of his parents, is an athletic prodigy who is a masterful self-marketer, and is given to telling dumb black-men-have-big-dicks jokes in slick men’s magazines. But whoever Woods may be, his refusal to be pigeonholed into a single racial category points the way out of the dualistic rigidity and emotional hysteria that has led America into a racial impasse. By choosing to embrace all of who he is — an entity for which there is no name, except one that sounds like a tribe from the imaginary country of Narnia — Woods, the goofy 21-year-old with the golden-brown skin and the beautiful swing, has become a messenger for a larger truth: Our race does not make us who we are.
| It's so good to see racism alive and well at the AP. But then again, maybe it's just a push for some new advertisers.
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Wondered when this was going to rear it’s ugly head.
Sorry gals, your guilt laden racist days are over. You will just have to live with it.
Oh, it doesn’t matter what color the guy is; they always like blonds.
How about the guys 100% A@@hole?
I was wondering when this would surface. Black women apparently get outraged about black men chasing white women. Back when white men got outrager abour black men with white women, they were called “racists”(even though the white women were usually trash, as seems to be the case with Tiger’s hos). Turnabout is fair play.
LOL!!! Candygram for Wally!
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