This is the type of thing that can easily be fact-checked, if anyone really cares. He didn't grow up in 1950s Alabama ... the sort of incident he describes would have made the news and potentially the courts.
>>>This is the type of thing that can easily be fact-checked, if anyone really cares. He didn’t grow up in 1950s Alabama ... the sort of incident he describes would have made the news and potentially the courts.<<<
Not necessarily, stuff like this does happen sometimes, with kids of all races being the victims and the victimizers, and it does not always make the papers. Plus this would have happened around 1980.
I’m not saying I believe Tiger’s story, but I’m not sure he was lying either. Perhaps somewhere in between, as in he exaggerated an incident where he was racially harassed.
I definitely don’t believe the teacher’s sob story about the “migraines, high blood pressure and other ailments”. If that were the case, I think she would have sued him back in 2005, or at least publicly refuted the story.
That was my first thought, in Texas I was in 5th grade when integration started, we would never have done anything like this and nothing like this occurred at our school, and that had to be 20 years, almost an entire generation before Tiger.