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Tiger Woods... Missing Something?
On a recent trip I had rare occurrence to read a magazine from cover to cover and somehow the one that ended up in my hands was the February issue of Vanity Fair. Of course the cover story is the largest article in the issue and they had their work cut out for them with the subject of Tiger and his transgressions. Now while I have always been a staunch fan of what Tigrè ( my name for him) does, even this “extra-curricular” debacle did little to shake my support for him but after the article (I must admit the first I read not about the golfer but about the man) I feel like my faith in him as a man is shaken.
Not only do we have a collection of images of him posing as if he's suddenly 50 Cent but the article paints a picture of biracial man that doesn't seem to respect himself in some ways. The “black jokes” the unnerving way in which he seems to let others cultivate and control his persona.
Has anyone else read this, if so what do you think?
Tags: Identity, and, brothers, issues, sisters, successful
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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on -
why even have "faith" in him? you, like most of us, dont know him.
i didn't care much for him before, i was annoyed w/ the "blasian" thing personally, and after reading those obnoxious black jokes i care even less about him.
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Permalink Reply by Kareem Carter on -
LesYpersound said:
While it's true the cablasian (or whatever it was) thing was a disappointment, even if you didn't like golf you had to respect him. I grew up disliking Micheal Jordan but as an athlete you had to give him his props. Tigrè is one of the best athletes playing a sport today (the man won a tournament in which you spend most of the time depending on your legs, with a broken leg). My faith was placed in the athlete. Secretly hoping he would come to the realization that he is a black man and he wields a lot of power in that respect.why even have "faith" in him? you, like most of us, dont know him.
i didn't care much for him before, i was annoyed w/ the "blasian" thing personally, and after reading those obnoxious black jokes i care even less about him.
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on -
Incredible specialized skills in one area don't make people exceptional in other areas. Haven't read the article though.
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Permalink Reply by Kareem Carter on
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Maybe faith is too strong a word, maybe admiration is a better adjective.
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Permalink Reply by Velour on -
I browsed through it. I couldn't get past the pictures. I felt like they did nothing to help him and the predicament he's in now. Maybe when people focused on him as being ashamed of his ethnicity those pictures may have helped because he isn't ashamed to be shown in his own skin. However, the images are wrong for this time in his life.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on -
This. I don't even see why the black community should care when he's taken public steps to disassociate himself with his own blackness. AI certainly don't respect him. Wouldn't admire him, either. Are people really so low on heroes that this is what they accept?
LesYpersound said:why even have "faith" in him? you, like most of us, dont know him.
i didn't care much for him before, i was annoyed w/ the "blasian" thing personally, and after reading those obnoxious black jokes i care even less about him.
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on
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Kareem Carter said:Maybe faith is too strong a word, maybe admiration is a better adjective.
Maybe you can admire his golf skills, which are formidable, without elevating him as a person. There are plenty of musicians whose music I admire, but aren't the best people.
Do you ever wonder why no one says "That guy that installed the deck cover did such a great job. He must be an incredible person"?
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Permalink Reply by Kareem Carter on
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True, True
Compound Egret said:Kareem Carter said:Maybe faith is too strong a word, maybe admiration is a better adjective.
Maybe you can admire his golf skills, which are formidable, without elevating him as a person. There are plenty of musicians whose music I admire, but aren't the best people.
Do you ever wonder why no one says "That guy that installed the deck cover did such a great job. He must be an incredible person"?
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Permalink Reply by Q.A.Bradford on -
people fuck, especially black men -- especially black men in athletics -- society eggs us on to do so since most people in the world have a hard time imagining us as fucking morally and economically legitimate human beings in the first place. tiger woods is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo f u c k i n g typical that paying mind to his t y p i c a l sufferings is an act of intellectual irresponsibility. If you've lost "whatever" for Mr. Woods, it was probably also after you lost track of that report you were supposed to turn into your "boring" humanities class.
I give no "personal" fuck about dudes or their "skills" cause i dont get a check for it in the mail and it does nothing more to normalize me than did Jesse Owens before WWII... Just makes me have to let people down easy and look like a snob just for being fucking real.
Tiger dont fuckng matter people, just a milder OJ a la dick. Keep it real people.
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Permalink Reply by X-D-D-M*9 on
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Have to third this (all late, I know). Tiger's racial attitudes and ignorance are his own problem though his skills are still tight. The unfotunate truth no one wants to recognize is that you may not care about him, but many people do and he's a role model for for the youth globally. I respect Ike Turner's musical genius but he is no model for famliy and personal behavior at all.
Kareem Carter said:True, True
Compound Egret said:Kareem Carter said:Maybe faith is too strong a word, maybe admiration is a better adjective.
Maybe you can admire his golf skills, which are formidable, without elevating him as a person. There are plenty of musicians whose music I admire, but aren't the best people.
Do you ever wonder why no one says "That guy that installed the deck cover did such a great job. He must be an incredible person"?
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