Mickelson's Success, Struggles Of Woods Brings Out The Inner Racism In Some

This was bound to happen as Phil Mickelson claimed victory in the Masters on Sunday in Augusta, Ga. at Augusta National Golf Club - home of the legendary tournament. Mickelson clearly is a feel-good story with what his wife is going through with cancer and the stand-up way in which he has carried himself through these trying and challenging times. So, as Mickelson won, a lot of us could not help but think - at least a little bit - about the racial factor in his victory. Some, thought about it more so than others and some thought about it more viciously than others.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hatewatch" picked up on one such individual who celebrated Mickelson's victory by launching a vicious racist attack on Tiger Woods.

Here is how it begins:

Count James Edwards, host of the Memphis-based white nationalist, anti-Semitic radio show called “Political Cesspool”, is among those likely celebrating Phil Mickelson’s victory at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday. Not because Mickelson is a feel-good story, winning the green jacket as his cancer-stricken wife watched, but because Mickelson is not Tiger Woods. That is to say, Mickelson is not black.

Yeah, you can see where this is headed:

The Masters “is civilized. All civilization channels basic desires and instincts into something higher and nobler. Lincoln and the abolitionists did their best to put an end to it, and the Jews and liberals are trampling down what remnants are left.”

Edwards was still warming up.

Then along came Tiger Woods, a “mixed race Negro with the skills to break down the last sport of white refuge, golf, and its citadel, Augusta National,” Edwards lamented. “He was the black messiah of sports. The long awaited one who would tear down the last remnants of segregation.”

Most would see that as a good thing. Not Edwards, of course. He cited a litany of rancid racial stereotypes to explain why.

“He’s got the sexual mores of the most stereotypical ‘nigger’ that even the most hardened, bigoted cracker could imagine,” wrote Edwards, who opposes “primitivism,” homosexuality, loveless sex, feminism and abortion. “Oh, and he apparently only wants white women. From his Nordic model wife to the dumpiest diner waitress, all of his trysts are with white women.”

“Segregation in the old South was all about maintaining racial integrity and civilization,” Edwards continued. “About keeping our wives and daughters safe from sexual animals like Tiger. About building up and maintaining what is noble and good. If the ‘black messiahs’ like Tiger Woods and Martin Luther King Jr. are such animals, what about the mere mortals among them? Do we want to find out?”

Contained in that lengthy excerpt would be all of the racist stereotypes generally used against black men over the years. All tied up in the neat little package of your classic racist.

Self-Righteous Brit Hume Engages In Religious Bigotry Against Tiger Woods

Fox News right-wing commentator and religious expert Brit Hume (on the Sunday, Jan. 3 edition of Fox News Sunday) offered golfing phenom Tiger Woods, experiencing no shortage of marital problems these days, some religious advice. Hume, reminiscent of Europeans who went into Africa to colonize and civilize blacks (by introducing and imposing their religious beliefs), was strong in his words of advice toward Woods.

HUME: Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person, I think, is a very open question. And it’s a tragic situation. . . . But the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this scandal, the extent to which he can recover, seems to me to depend on his faith. He’s said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.’

Hume seems to be engaging in what is little more than religious bigotry by taking it upon himself to define Buddhism and suggest Woods just abandon it and embrace Christianity.

Check out this video of the historic Alex Haley film “Roots.” Fast forward to about 6:55 of this clip to see the relevance (below the video is the transcript).

Hume’s comment made me think long and hard about this particular scene from that film.

CAPTAIN DAVIES: What are they like…the blacks?

MR. SLATER: They’re just a different kind of breed, sir. A man breeds a dog for hunting…and breeds another sort of dog for his family. Blacks are slow-minded but strong. They’re made for slavery like you’re made to run this ship. The natural order of things, eh?

DAVIES: Yes. Yes, I could understand that, I suppose.

SLATER: It’s good for them, us taking them like that. They’re better off for it, sir.

DAVIES: I’m not sure I understand that part, Mr. Slater.

SLATER: For one thing, there’s Christianity. We’re bringing them to a Christian land. That’s got to be better for them than the heathen Allah they got now. That’s the first thing. Second is…we’re saving them from being eaten by their own kind. They do that, you know. Cannibals, all of them.

DAVIES: As I said before, Mr. Slater…below decks, you’re the expert.

Maybe Hume feels like he is civilizing Woods by trying to convert him to Christianity … much like Mr. Slater believed in “Roots.”

The religious bigotry from Hume, however, displays a shameful form of ignorance and bigotry. It also shows that Hume has learned nothing from the bigoted beliefs (symbolic of intolerance) of some people 400 years ago.

It’s not to say Hume is exactly like slave masters, but it is sad he has not learned a little something about religious bigotry from that horrible legacy.

Check out how a few conservatives are predictably coming to the defense of Hume: http://mediamatters.org/research/201001040038

Tiger Woods’ Affair(s) Brings Out The Haters Who Were Waiting

The blood is in the water and the sharks are circling.

Tiger Woods has been getting hammered by more than just his wife, Elin, since his car accident and alleged affairs have been thrust into the media’s range.

Obviously, I don’t condone marital infidelity by Woods or anyone else – whether it was with one woman or it was with 15. And, the same holds true for women because, contrary to popular belief, women cheat just like men cheat. Still, if even a portion of what is being alleged about Tiger Woods is true then it does almost seem as though he had a whole separate life that a lot of people did not know about. But, should any of us really be shocked? No. Tiger Woods is a human beings and human beings do good things and human beings do bad things. The only ones who are shocked are those who put Tiger Woods on a pedestal (because they admired him so much or because they wanted to see him fall from it).

That said, one thing I have found interesting about the Woods’ mess is the reaction of some of Tiger’s fellow golfers who have turned the Professional Golf Association (PGA) into the Professional Haters Association (PHA). It’s amazing how Woods’ seemingly self-inflicted misery (which has damaged his reputation, but not irreparably) has opened the door to the closet haters to come out and bash the player (Tiger Woods).

I found this at Huffington Post which quotes Life & Style:

For the time being, Tiger Woods’ major sponsors — including Nike and Tag Heuer – haven’t dropped him. But things could change in the wake of a messy, public divorce. In fact, many of Tiger’s colleagues in the golf world have already made up their minds about the situation — and wasted no time badmouthing their former friend. Jesper Parnevik, the Swedish golfer who introduced Elin, then his kids’ nanny, to Tiger, has said he regrets doing so. “We probably thought he was a better guy than he is,” Parnevik said.

Ben Crane, a PGA player, has even harsher words. “This is no surprise to anyone who knows Tiger,” Crane tells Life & Style. “He’s a phony and a fake and he can’t retain that squeaky-clean endorsement deal any longer.” Crane also believes Elin may have known about Tiger’s other women. ”She’s no fool,” Crane says, adding that perhaps Elin “turned a blind eye because of the money and the kids and the lifestyle he provides.”

PGA golfer Charles Warren agrees that it may have been more than love that attracted Elin to Tiger but that she should definitely leave him in light of what’s happened. “She was very young when Jesper introduced them,” Warren tells Life & Style. “She had stars in her eyes and maybe dollar signs too. But no, she should not stay with him. What kind of message would that send to her sister and mother and all the women out there? That your husband can be a bastard but as long as he makes the deal worthwhile, you’ll stay?”

For more on Tiger’s cheating, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!

That represents some interesting stuff to me.

Some of these cats have been waiting on an opportunity like this one to get at Tiger Woods.

“… Squeaky-clean endorsement deal…” Crane said.

That is an interesting statement.

Crane, a PHA player, went to work on Woods with some scathing comments that frankly stinks of him having a lot of hate inside of him. Crane, running a clinic on player hating with these comments, sounds like a guy holding inner resentment toward Woods and waiting on something to happen so he could express his true feelings.

The mess is for Tiger and Elin to sort out, but it is interesting how it reveals the ugly side of some other people who see an opportunity to attack this couple – most likely out of suppressed jealousy.

Noted Bigot Rush Limbaugh Lectures Black People On Their Problems

Multicultural icon Rush Limbaugh is at it again telling black people how bad they are and how pitiful they are in today’s United States of America. He now is telling people ”the black frame of mind is terrible” on his radio broadcast that reaches millions of people. The sad thing is that the millions of people he reach believe in just about everything he is saying and support his frequent racial, sexist and homophobic attacks. He criticizes black people for thinking the election of Barack Obama was going to be this huge turnaround of the economy when actually conservatives were saying that about President Obama and portraying him as some kind of celebrity and calling him “The One” as a way of attacking him.

Some of this might resonate with the 18 black people who probably listen to Limbaugh, but not much beyond that small minority.

Then noted race relations expert Rush Limbaugh finishes off his idiotic rant by taking a shot at Tiger Woods and his interracial marriage by saying, “Tiger Woods’ choice of females not helping them out with their attitudes there either.”

Rush Limbaugh’s words translated: Black people are not working, black people are bad, blacks have bad attitudes, blacks are depressed, blacks are down, blacks are disillusioned and blacks are being screwed by Barack Obama. Then you got Tiger Woods who is messing around with white women and showing you just how bad people of color are today.

It’s always interesting to hear from champions of diversity and inclusion like Rush Limbaugh when he shares his firsthand knowledge of all that is bad with black people and how they can turn it all around if they listen to Uncle Ruckus Lim … er… Uucle Rush Limbaugh.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200912080019

Did Somebody Just Turn On Waiting To Exhale? Please Stop...

"Waiting To Exhale" is a very good movie. I've watched it once or twice and, although it is a fairly well-done film, the one or two times I watched it was more than enough for me.

Excuse me if I have a difficult time not vomiting at the sounds of all this victimization that so many women wallow in when it comes to infidelity. I stumbled across this blog on the Booker Rising site and, obviously, it caught and held my attention. Sandra Rose's blog is titled, "More Proof That Men Are Cheats By Nature."

She writes:

Every sistah who has ever had their suspicions confirmed about their cheating men can identify with Elin. Tiger is lucky his wife reached for one of his golf clubs and not a knife or a gun.

But on the other hand, Elin should have known better. You don’t marry a rich and powerful man and not expect him to keep a mistress on the side. Keeping a mistress or two just goes with the territory when you’re rich and famous — and they all do it. Wives who think their husbands don’t cheat are delusional.

Now it remains to be seen if Elin will be charged with domestic battery or will the cover up continue.

The anger level seem to be on full alert as the author seems to indirectly pronounce Woods guilty as charged of infidelity.

Is this a lost scene from "Waiting to Exhale" or "Jungle Fever" (when the women are in the house in full male-bashing mode). I am not one who likes to jump to conclusions in a case like this one (even though some of the circumstances are suspect to say the very least). The curious and still mysterious case of Tiger Woods is not blanket proof of male nature for women who make bad choices and pick the wrong men for the wrong reasons and then cry foul when it doesn't work out and they are not able to convert the guy into the image they want (after having stepped over good men who don't meet some oftentimes materialistic or superficial standard).

Those who point fingers in cases like this typically do so to mask their own shortcomings.

Here is the blog from Sandra Rose:
http://sandrarose.com/2009/11/28/more-proof-that-men-are-cheats-by-nature-3/