HBO Max's 'Tiger' doc - and white America - still doesn't understand Tiger Woods

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Jan. 28, 2021 | Rod Benson

[artichokegrower]

I was 13 years old when I found golf. More accurately, an older white lady saw me and my brother at the putt-putt in Del Mar, California, and asked me if I played real golf.

[yesthatjallen]

Analyzing Tiger’s story as one of adultery, addiction and golf mastery is like analyzing a flesh wound by the shape of the Band-Aid. Tiger isn’t Lance Armstrong. Tiger isn’t Mark McGwire. Tiger was trained to infiltrate white society better than any other Black man, and white society could not wait to catch him in the act anyway. He is the Arsène Lupin of racial relations.

The take away. Tiger Woods was a big FU to White America and this is what blacks should celebrate.

[yesthatjallen]

I was 13 years old when I found golf. More accurately, an older white lady saw me and my brother at the putt-putt in Del Mar, California, and asked me if I played real golf.

Good heavens. An elderly White woman made the effort to reach across racial lines and this black guy has to make her racial awareness an issue.

If she ignored him he'd be calling her a racist cracker.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

WTH is there to understand???

Why he would piss away his fortune, reputation and marrage to a beautiful model on a Waffle House waitress!

[yesthatjallen]

Why he would piss away his fortune, reputation and marrage to a beautiful model on a Waffle House waitress!

He doesn't want an honest 'warts and all' documentary on Woods. What he wants is a film declaring Woods the greatest golfer of all time and the black man who beat the rich White man at his own sport.

[econjack]

Not if we can get enough people PO’ed at them.

[macrahanish #1]

And his dad, Earl, had quite a bit of Native American blood. I never hear this addressed.

[RedwM]

and vice-versa.