Eldrick Tont 'Tiger' Woods does not deserve any sympathy or understanding in his present predicament, since he foolishly thought he could get away with what Bill Clinton couldn't? He thought he could succeed where Bill Clinton failed? He thought he had this special magic wand called 'a billion-dollar estate' which Bill Clinton never had and hence is invincible and cannot be nailed down? FALSE! FALSE! FALSE! Icheoku says, for thinking that he is smarter than Bill Clinton and that he can tee himself out of a messy situation where Bill Clinton got stuck in, makes Tiger Woods the dumb, dumber and dumbest person of the year 2009. Possibly the best adviser he should seek out now, as a matter of utmost immediacy, is Bill Clinton, the master philanderer in chief! Let TW ask Bill for his wise counsel on how best to navigate his way out of the present quagmire he is trapped in. Monicagate was huge but Bill still survived it; and such invaluable experience could readily come very handy now and be brought to bear on the unfolding Tigergate scandal! Philanderer TW made a fatal mistake when he tried to throw a curve-ball to the world by not initially coming out straight and square, to explain his 'faked' accident? Now his guilty-behavior has attracted so much attention that every prying eyes in the world are fixated on him, tyring to hear what other lie he will tell in addition to the one already told; since one lie usually begets another lie? So Tiger, Icheoku asks you to confirm whether you were beaten up by a furious woman, who felt betrayed by your lust for other skirts and could not control herself? Is your Elin a wild feline?





A real woman would have consulted her mother to devise the best plan of action against a cheating husband and allowed him to enjoy his 2.30am dead-in-the-night sleep, instead of forcing him to run for his dear life in his bed-clothes and bare feet; only to be stopped by a huge tree! Even a black-woman or Chinese woman or Latina or an Arab woman would have reminisced over a similar story of how her daddy was a rolling stone and decided to give Tiger a break? Or may be, taken it out on the home-breaker herself instead of the husband and behind the husband's back? We are not by any means whatsoever, condoning any philandering by any married man or woman; just get out of the kitchen if it gets too hot and regain your freedom. But at the same token, we condemn pursuing a man outside his bed at that hour of the night, with a golf club just because he did what comes naturally with so many men - expressing their polygamous masochism. Icheoku reiterates that neither Tiger's action nor Eli's reaction is acceptable or condonable.


Tiger's troubles widen his distance from blacks
ReplyDeleteAmid 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.
On the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, Woods was the butt of jokes all week.
"Thankfully, Tiger, you didn't marry a black woman. Because if a sister caught you running around with a bunch of white hoochie-mamas," one parody suggests in song, she would have castrated him.
"The Grinch's Theme Song" didn't stop there: "The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother waaant?"
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."
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.
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.
On the one hand, Ebonie Johnson Cooper doesn't care that Tiger Woods' wife and alleged mistresses are white because Woods is "quote-unquote not really black."
"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."
Black women have long felt slighted by the tendency of famous black men to pair with white women, and many have a list of current transgressors at the ready.
"We've discussed this for years among black women," said Denene Millner, author of several books on black relationships. "Why is it when they get to this level ... they tend to go directly for the nearest blonde?"
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
Carmen Van Kerckhove, founder of the race-meets-pop-culture blog Racialicious, said there have been frequent discussions on her site about the fine line between preference and fetish.
"Is there any difference between a white guy with a thing for blondes, and a non-white guy with a thing for blondes?" asked Van Kerckhove, who has a Chinese mother, a Belgian father and a husband born in America to parents from Benin.
She claims that Asians don't fully embrace Woods, either.
"There are two layers of suspicion toward him," Van Kerkhove said. "One toward the apparent pattern in the race of his partners, and the second in the way he sees himself. ... People have been giving him the side-eye for a while."
There's nothing wrong with wanting a mate who shares your culture, as long as it's for the right reasons, the comedienne Sheryl Underwood said after unleashing a withering Woods monologue on Tom Joyner's radio show.
"Would we question when a Jewish person wants to marry other Jewish people?" she said in an interview. "It's not racist. It's not bigotry. It's cultural pride."
"The issue comes in when you choose something white because you think it's better," Underwood said. "And then you never date a black woman or a woman of color or you never sample the greatness of the international buffet of human beings. If you never do that, we got a problem."
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Jesse Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press.
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