Tiger Woods: Not Black Like Me
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Tiger Woods: Not Black Like Me

THE COVER OF FEBRUARY'S VANITY FAIR features a solitary Tiger Woods, shirtless, and as the title suggests, "in the rough."
The magazine strips Tiger of his classic black slacks, red polo and baseball cap, and leads readers through the seedy tale of Tiger's tarnished image, lost endorsement deals and a marriage on the rocks.
Let's mix in the background philosophizing that Woods must hate who he is by singularly cheating with voluptuous, plump-lipped white women and you've got a cocktail that goes down rougher than broken glass.
Many people suspect Woods isn't just an adultering bastard who slept with an undisclosed quantity of women, but a semi-racist bastard for never cheating with a minority woman.
Some observers have gone as far as to say if he had of cheated with, say, a stream of black women, this story would have lost some of its potency.
I had to look at two things here before I used these thumbs to text this story:
1) It's freakin' Tiger Woods! and
2) Do I really care what a man -- whose penis seems destined to fall off due to extreme rash -- does with his organ? Let's explore.
First off, Tiger Woods doesn't think he's black. His dad was black, but his mom is from Thailand. He even made up a word to describe his ethnicity so you don't think he's black: He's cablinasian but he just looks like a black person, not to be confused with an actual black person like myself.
I don't think the guy's completely delusional and doesn't think that, when he walks into a room, he isn't perceived as black. I've read stories where he recounts being called "nigger," a racist term reserved primarily for black people.
Tiger's dad Earl defended his son not wanting to identify as black because he grew up surrounded by whites and Asians and identifies with a lot of his mother's culture.
According to Earl, Woods never adopted Black American culture.
I don't know how that's possible when his dad's an actual black man but I digress.
Tiger Woods married a blonde Swedish woman. He's totally not into this whole "black thing," so is it any surprise that he only bags white women when philandering?
I am just a little bit surprised that this guy doesn't like variety. He didn't even try to impress any Asian or Native American with his savvy "black guy being well-endowed" jokes like the ones quoted in GQ in 1997.
Tiger rubbed the tips of his shoes together and then asked a few flirtatious women around during his photo shoot, "What's this?"
When they were unable to come up with a response, he said: "It's a black guy taking off his condom."
Now that's a little weird because I'm not sure if he's making fun of black men as a Cablinasian or including himself with the black guys trying to con the ladies. Cause after all, he's not black.
Anywho, does it matter to me if a guy cheats on his wife with a variety of women? Certainly.
It shows me that you're an open-minded, lying, cheating, scum-bag versus one trying to prove to his 18-year-old self that he really can boink the hot, head-cheerleader even though her boyfriend puts you in a locker everyday.
Tiger, the least you can do is mix it up a bit. Be an equal opportunity cheater. We live in America for goodness sake.
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Tiger Woods is more ASIAN than black. His closest friend's name is JERRY CHANG.
Get over yourself and free yourself from this racial jail you've locked you small little mind into.
Oh wait -- I've seen full Thai and Cambodian guys who are darker than Tiger Woods. I guess they should identify themselves as BLACK as well huh?
Stupid woman.
Posted by: bomboa | January 14, 2010 01:47 PM
Thank God he didn't slum it with any Black or Asian chicks! Just porn stars & waitresses for the man with discriminating taste.
And, off the record, yes he did although I received a one-time lump sum of $12,000 and a years' supply of golf balls & Nike caps so overall, I think I came out on top!
Thanks for doing me this HUGE, HUGE, favor (sounds familiar) by not bringing that up anymore
Posted by: SJ | January 11, 2010 03:36 PM
Tiger was smart enough to know that uppity Asian or Black women would make demands on him that he really didn't need or want. He just wanted to have some fun with his first choice of women...he didn't need to slum it.
Posted by: Jim.Dandy | January 11, 2010 01:37 PM
um...for the record tiger is only 1/4 black...his father was only half black...
he is technically and genetically more asian than black...that is an undisputed fact.
why does he need to deny 3/4 of his heritage and his mother to satisfy your need to classify him in a census category...?
Why so much anger?
Did he break your heart too?
Posted by: AC | January 11, 2010 01:28 PM