As much good as Tiger Woods might do in his success at golf, I hate to see him become a racial icon. It's not race that got him where he's at and it shouldn't be race that makes him someone to look up to. One of the great things about Tiger is that he agrees with you 100%! He's about the furthest thing there is from a racialist. Jesse Jackson tried to "co-opt" him a couple of years back and Tiger, God bless him, basically told Jackson to go f**k off.
I think the NY Times tried to shame him last year when he refused to say that Augusta should allow women as members. That raised my respect level for Tiger even more.