tiger woods in car crash

**BlackHitachi** · 12-10-2009 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by salsadancer7

Here is some more....and this is the best response I have seen so far...and coming from a guy I RARELY agree with:

Here's the truth behind the Tiger Woods scandal

by Jason Whitlock

Updated: December 10, 2009, 4:48 PM EST

There's more money and less intellectual effort in judging, vilifying and diminishing Tiger Woods than in providing the public a lens to understand him and a sports world/culture that long ago was perverted by television's money and fame.

It takes no courage or thought to recognize Tiger's personal failure. He, as far as we know, shamed his wife and family. We can assume Tiger's Swedish wife adopted our American marriage value of strict monogamy, and she is mortified and shocked that her ridiculously famous, handsome, billionaire husband gave in to the temptation of road beef.

Yes, assumption is the platform from which all insightful ideas, opinions and perspective are based.

Armed with the supposition that this brown-skinned golfer has irreversibly harmed an attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman, much of the sports media have turned Elin Nordegren into Natalee Holloway and reached for ratings and relevancy by traveling the route paved by Nancy Grace.

There is, believe it or not, another direction to explore. There is another reality we can reluctantly accept. If we choose, we, the media, can do our job and put Tiger's transgressions in their proper context and explain to the public what happened to the perceived traditional ideals of the sports world.

The high-character values and morality we've ascribed to the male and female athletes who entertain us were a myth in the 20th century and a flat-out impossibility now.

When television took control of sports 40 years ago, athletes became America's first reality TV stars and no different from daytime soap opera stars.

When television's money and spotlight began turning 20-year-old athletes into instant millionaires, celebrities and brands, the Jordans, Peyton Mannings, LeBron James, Roger Clemens, Tiger Woods and Michael Phelps of the world became no different from Jon Bon Jovi, Mick Jagger, George Clooney, LL Cool J, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Redford.

How many women do you think Jagger bedded in his prime? His wealth, fame and looks pale in comparison to Tiger's. When Phelps returned from the Olympics, he hit a bong and the strip clubs, bedding strippers, according to gossip magazine testimony, two and three at a time. You think when Phelps finds the love of his life, he'll dial it back and satisfy himself with vanilla sex when his wife decides to give it to him?

That's right. Men who grow up eating at five-star steakhouses often happily learn to love Hamburger Helper five nights a week.

We're outraged and stunned that Tiger has had a dozen alleged affairs. The typical rock or movie star is laughing and/or questioning Tiger's sexuality if the golfer limited himself to a number below 50 since marriage and 500 in his post-puberty lifetime.

The notion that golf, with its history of unapologetic racism and sexism, is somehow filled with men of impeccable integrity is a hysterical lie propagandized by hypocritical white men willing to commit the same crime they charge Tiger and his sponsors pulled off: the upholding of a patently false image.

"You play golf to drink with your boys, smoke cigars and talk about (sex)," former NBA player John Salley told me Wednesday. "And now we're surprised that a golfer was having sex. We think Tiger is the only one. Why are we treating Tiger like he's elected to public office? He plays golf, man."

Here's the truth behind the Tiger Woods scandal - Golf News - FOX Sports on MSN

There is MORE and a must read....

Great post thank you very much!!!!!

**televisionarchives** · 12-11-2009 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by salsadancer7

Here is some more....and this is the best response I have seen so far...and coming from a guy I RARELY agree with:

Here's the truth behind the Tiger Woods scandal

by Jason Whitlock

Updated: December 10, 2009, 4:48 PM EST

There's more money and less intellectual effort in judging, vilifying and diminishing Tiger Woods than in providing the public a lens to understand him and a sports world/culture that long ago was perverted by television's money and fame.

It takes no courage or thought to recognize Tiger's personal failure. He, as far as we know, shamed his wife and family. We can assume Tiger's Swedish wife adopted our American marriage value of strict monogamy, and she is mortified and shocked that her ridiculously famous, handsome, billionaire husband gave in to the temptation of road beef.

Yes, assumption is the platform from which all insightful ideas, opinions and perspective are based.

Armed with the supposition that this brown-skinned golfer has irreversibly harmed an attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman, much of the sports media have turned Elin Nordegren into Natalee Holloway and reached for ratings and relevancy by traveling the route paved by Nancy Grace.

There is, believe it or not, another direction to explore. There is another reality we can reluctantly accept. If we choose, we, the media, can do our job and put Tiger's transgressions in their proper context and explain to the public what happened to the perceived traditional ideals of the sports world.

The high-character values and morality we've ascribed to the male and female athletes who entertain us were a myth in the 20th century and a flat-out impossibility now.

When television took control of sports 40 years ago, athletes became America's first reality TV stars and no different from daytime soap opera stars.

When television's money and spotlight began turning 20-year-old athletes into instant millionaires, celebrities and brands, the Jordans, Peyton Mannings, LeBron James, Roger Clemens, Tiger Woods and Michael Phelps of the world became no different from Jon Bon Jovi, Mick Jagger, George Clooney, LL Cool J, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Redford.

How many women do you think Jagger bedded in his prime? His wealth, fame and looks pale in comparison to Tiger's. When Phelps returned from the Olympics, he hit a bong and the strip clubs, bedding strippers, according to gossip magazine testimony, two and three at a time. You think when Phelps finds the love of his life, he'll dial it back and satisfy himself with vanilla sex when his wife decides to give it to him?

That's right. Men who grow up eating at five-star steakhouses often happily learn to love Hamburger Helper five nights a week.

We're outraged and stunned that Tiger has had a dozen alleged affairs. The typical rock or movie star is laughing and/or questioning Tiger's sexuality if the golfer limited himself to a number below 50 since marriage and 500 in his post-puberty lifetime.

The notion that golf, with its history of unapologetic racism and sexism, is somehow filled with men of impeccable integrity is a hysterical lie propagandized by hypocritical white men willing to commit the same crime they charge Tiger and his sponsors pulled off: the upholding of a patently false image.

"You play golf to drink with your boys, smoke cigars and talk about (sex)," former NBA player John Salley told me Wednesday. "And now we're surprised that a golfer was having sex. We think Tiger is the only one. Why are we treating Tiger like he's elected to public office? He plays golf, man."

Here's the truth behind the Tiger Woods scandal - Golf News - FOX Sports on MSN

There is MORE and a must read....

Everytime I read stuff like this I wonder what the writer has to hide. And Tiger Woods isn't black.

**rey_1178** · 12-11-2009 07:30 AM

Originally Posted by salsadancer7

Nicklaus: Woods' issues his own...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- Jack Nicklaus said the fallout over Tiger Woods' car crash and allegations of extramarital affairs is "none of my business."

"Our public is pretty forgiving at times," Nicklaus said Thursday. "Time usually heals all wounds. I think the hardest thing is obviously his family. That's a private matter for him and his family."

Jack Nicklaus wants to respect Tiger Woods' privacy - ESPN

Nice to hear the voice of reason....

**rey_1178** · 12-11-2009 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by televisionarchives

Everytime I read stuff like this I wonder what the writer has to hide. And Tiger Woods isn't black.

**riffjim4069** · 12-11-2009 07:38 AM

Another Tiger Bimbo is on NBC's Today Show right now...ugh!

**SandraC** · 12-11-2009 08:36 AM

Note to Jason Whitlock:

Shame on you for bringing race into this. Stating that the fact that this involves a brown-skinned golfer married to a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is even worth mentioning is repugnant at the very least.

The press has with equal vigor gone after Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez and others, so your point is irrelevant...and just plain wrong.

There are other holes in your story, but nothing of the severity of you mentioning race as a factor.

Unfortunately there are so many times in this country when race IS a factor, when race DOES bring about certain types of behavior depending on the situation, that bringing race up when it is not a factor hurts people who are actually discriminated against.

Just terrible.

Sandra

**iceturkee** · 12-11-2009 08:58 AM

you do realize that whitlock is black, right?

**cosmo_kramer** · 12-11-2009 09:01 AM

This just keeps getting stranger and stranger. I wonder what Eldrick's legal bills are so far...

A British court has granted Tiger Woods an injunction prohibiting the publication of any nude pictures of him -- not that the golfer is acknowledging that such photos exist.

"For the avoidance of doubt, this order is not to be taken as an admission that any such photographs exist, and in the event that these photographs do exist, and it is not admitted, any such images may have been fabricated, altered, manipulated and or changed to create the false appearance and impression that they are nude photographs of our client," Schillings said in a letter sent to legal departments of British publications.

British court blocks Tiger Woods photos - CNN.com

**salsadancer7** · 12-11-2009 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by televisionarchives

Everytime I read stuff like this I wonder what the writer has to hide. And Tiger Woods isn't black.

Couple of things...1st and foremost, Tiger is black....not fully black, but he is black. And 2ndly, WHAT would Whitlock be "hiding"?

**salsadancer7** · 12-11-2009 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by SandraC

Note to Jason Whitlock:

Shame on you for bringing race into this. Stating that the fact that this involves a brown-skinned golfer married to a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white woman is even worth mentioning is repugnant at the very least.

The press has with equal vigor gone after Roger Clemens, Alex Rodriguez and others, so your point is irrelevant...and just plain wrong.

There are other holes in your story, but nothing of the severity of you mentioning race as a factor.

Unfortunately there are so many times in this country when race IS a factor, when race DOES bring about certain types of behavior depending on the situation, that bringing race up when it is not a factor hurts people who are actually discriminated against.

Just terrible.

Sandra

Note to Sandra....

HOW do you know race is not a part of it? Honestly... 2ndly, ALL of the athletes you mentioned were NEVER chased around about infidelity as bad as Tiger. When their infidelities were aired out, it was done in a couple of days...a week max. But this is gone strong for 2 weeks with LITTLE sign of letting up. SO this thing about being covered "with eqaul vigor" is ridiculous at best.