"I became aware of my racial identity on my first day of school, on my first day of kindergarten. A group of sixth graders tied me to a tree, spray-painted the word 'n-----' on me, and threw rocks at me. That was my first day of school. And the teacher really didn't do much of anything," according to the book.
If I had simply stumbled across the passage from Barkley’s book, I would probably think there was about a 20% chance the story was more or less true and a 80% it was false or grossly exaggerated.
But the way the teacher came forward, 5 years after the book was published, a week before Woods makes his comeback at the Masters, claiming that the story caused her serious physical illness,(which sounds like the prelude to a lawsuit) and giving a bogus reason why it couldn’t have happened, with Gloria Allred (a female version of John Edwards in my book) at her side, it makes me think the odds are more like 40% true, 60% false.