Tiger Woods, President Obama and "blacks" were subjects of recent negative comments by Rush Limbaugh...." the black frame of mind is terrible....Obama's not doing anything for 'em...I'm sure Tiger Woods' choice of females not helping 'em out with their attitudes there either." Strange - Rush Limbaugh, the race-baiting hypocrite, seems to have forgotten his "racially sensitive" interview with, of all people, Tiger Woods father, Earl Woods:
Rush: You know, we’ve talked a lot about him, but I’ve done a little digging into you. Your own story is inspiring in and of itself. You were raised by your sister after losing both your parents by the time you were 13. You chose the military over what was a promising career in baseball. And you’ve credited your mother and the lessons that she imparted to you about family, faith and hard work which have helped you nurture and guide Tiger’s talent. Do you believe if you hadn’t faced the obstacles, say, of race prejudice, that your own athletic career could have flourished had you decided to stick with baseball?
Woods: No. I’ll tell you the reason why. I’m a firm believer that I was selected by the Man Upstairs many, many years ago, and I was put to the test and prepared for my job of raising Tiger. And it didn’t include me going in and being successful as a Major League baseball player. It included me going in and suffering and having problems and learning how to solve those problems, so I could pass all of this information on to him.
Rush: What racial obstacles did you have to overcome? You and he both.
Woods: I’m perceived as black in the United States. But genetically, I am one-fourth Chinese, one-fourth white, one-fourth American Indian and one-fourth black. But I am black in the United States. I don’t have a drop of Italian blood in me or I’d be Italian — no, I wouldn’t, not in the United States. Only if it’s a black drop*. That’s the first problem I had. And Tiger has the same problem. He’s perceived as black in the United States. In Thailand, he’s perceived as Thai. In his mother’s country, he’s a Thai.
Rush: Was Tiger taunted? Kids can be kids.
Woods: He did on his first day in school. He was going to kindergarten and some of the older kids, because he was the only nonwhite in the whole school, grabbed him, tied him to a post, wrapped rope around him, then threw rocks at him and called him the N word. He was so embarrassed and humiliated he didn’t tell me about that for about three days. Finally he told me. I called the principal, and he said, “Mr. Woods, will you let me do my job?” I said, “Yes.” He called me back three days later and he said, “I have found out who the children were, and who the teachers were that were supposed to be supervising that area.” Let’s just say they were punished. I said, “Very fine.” He said, “I assure you, Tiger will have no more problems at my school.” And he didn’t.
source: http://download.premiereradio.net/guest/rushlimb/pdf/earlwoods.pdf
* In reference to Earl Wood's "black drop" - Wikipedia explains in the “one drop” rule, “This notion of invisible/intangible membership in a racial group has seldom been applied to people of other ancestry. The concept has been chiefly applied to those of black African ancestry. The one-drop rule was a tactic in the U.S. South that codified and strengthened segregation and the disfranchisement of most blacks and many poor whites from 1890-1910. After Supreme Court decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and related matters, White-dominated legislatures felt free to enact Jim Crow laws segregating Blacks in public places and accommodations, and passed other restrictive legislation. Legislatures sought to prevent interracial relationships to keep the white race "pure" long after slaveholders and overseers took advantage of enslaved women and produced the many mixed-race children."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
Link to a great Charlie Rose Interview with Tiger Woods father, Earl Woods, in May, 1997
source: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5570
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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