So.....What Should We Do With Tiger Woods?

Tiger is cool with it... so does it really matter?

Anytime a white person references the lynching of a black male, it will raise eyebrows, and justly so. There is no way or reason she could have thought that was an appropiate statment to make. Tiger Woods is too quiet and too softspoken and too concerned with saying the right thing to grow a pair and speak out against racism.

Well, lynching is illegal, no matter what your research indicates.

I think everybody is jumping to the conclusion that simply because Tiger didn't say something or lash out that he's accepting it and is at worst, ok with it. Allow me to give Tiger the benefit of the doubt. You think that while being an African-American trying to break into the world of golf, Tiger Woods isn't absolutely disgusted or pissed on the inside about it. Put yourself in his shoes. I encourage you guys to read Charles Barkley's book "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man". In it, he interviews Tiger Woods on issues such as racism and Tiger speaks candidly about it. Absolutely, the comment is an offense to each and every African-American born today and yesterday. But we cannot ASSUME that Tiger is OK with the comment just because he hasn't spoken candidly against it.

Tiger's OK with it because he said so, he knows the context to which it was said, and, it should be pointed out, it is not the first time the reference has been used. Brad Faxon said something similar a couple years ago and nobody gave a damn. And considering Tiger is part owner of the golf channel, it is entirely possible Tilghman's suspension is because she technically made a negative comment to Tiger the boss as opposed to Tiger the African American or Tiger the golfer.

I don't like the idea of lynching anyone, mainly because the practice of hanging someone for a crime before due process for the purpose of scaring others is terrorism. But also because it's a nasty practice and it brings up some ugly times in our history.

What I really hate about this is that if she had said "taken out back and beaten" or "taken out back and shot" nobody would be making the issue out of this that it became, no one would of noticed or cared.

It wasn't the actions she was suggesting that people took issue with (and what they really should of taken issue with) it was the choice of words in reference to a golfer who happens to be black.