What do you think about the recent statement made about Tiger Woods?

Question

take him in a alley and put a noose around his neck, and the cover of the golf magazine

Answer 1

I think that it was an acciedent, but she should have thought before she said it, while at the same time since Tiger Woods didn't take offense to it should should not have been suspended for it.

Answer 2

Everybody is "tooo sensitive". Blame it on the politicians.

Answer 3

Obviously, given the ultra-sensitive environment we live in, those incidences reflected poor judgment.

Kelly, in no way, meant any harm or malice in what she said.  But she also showed little sensitivity and awareness.

In any business the ultimate goal is to keep your customers satisfied and make money.  By alienating any segment of their clientel, these two entities had no choice but to take the actions they took.

Answer 4

It was taken totally out of context by the real racist Al Sharpton.

Answer 5

How cares> Hows going to Win the super Bowl.

Answer 6

Oh c**p! Say_What? nailed it.  One thing on top of all the great things he said.... who made Sharpton a Reverend?  I don't ever hear about any sermon's he's ever given.  I hear him run his mouth, but not in any uplifting way that REAL Reverends do.....

This all reminds me of my time at Olivet College.  We had two of our "teachers" that were cut from the same cloth as the "Reverend". They let their students get away with all kinds of things,(including underage drinking and providing alcohol for minors).  If anybody else did something and got busted, the thunder came down.  Call em on it and ask how they let their students get away with the same thing, their answer was "Why (insert name), are you a racist?"

Answer 7

This is so ridiculous.  Say what hit the nail on the head.  This idea of political correctness has gone to far.  I think that I should sue everyone that ever tells me an Irish joke again.

I do not believe that Kelly Tillighman meant any harm or offense with her comment.  She simply said it.  If she said that they should take him out back and beat the c**p out of him; Would that have been better?

More importantly, was Tiger offended?  All accounts say no.  I am tired of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpoton poking their respective noses where they do not belong.  I have two words for Reverend Sharpton, read carefully - TAWANA BRAWLEY.  I have three words for the Reverend Jackson; YOUR ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.

Make those items an issue.  Better yet clean up your own problems before judging someone else.

Answer 8

The thing that the race baiter Al Sharpton complained about was the use of the word "lynch" which he falsely claimed "has a specific racial meaning".  The word "lynch" was used to also describe impromptu hangings of outlaws in the old west and later. While it is true that many blacks have been lynched for racial reasons it is not true that ONLY blacks have been lynched.

If you saw the actual exchange between the commentators you would see that the woman Al focussed on was actually just bantering with her co-host who suggested Tiger's competitors would get together to attack him in order to not have to play him.

Tiger himself has said this is much ado about nothing and he has no problem with the woman who made the "lynch" comment.  

Unfortunately people like Al Sharpton develop their power base by pretending that all white people hate all black people.  Such race baiters leap on any perceived racial issue to help themselves look like "leaders".   Interestingly when they do so on "issues" that turn out to be hoaxes they are not men enough to admit they were wrong but rather prefer to try to quietly let the issue drop.  I invite you to look at the hoax several years ago wherein a black woman claimed to have been attacked by white men and covered in f***s at the end.  It turned out she had done it to herself to get attention.  Al came out on this issue like gangbusters when it was first reported (this by the way was the first time I saw any national attention on him).   He didn't bother to decry the REVERSE racism wherein this hoaxist tried to paint white people as cretins by her statements.  He simply just quit talking about it.

There IS racism in America but politicians like Al Sharpton are not helping prevent it - they are instead simply racists of a different ilk.  They want to paint all whites as evil which is just as wrong as KKKers trying to show that blacks are somehow subhuman.   In fact it is a little worse in my view because I suspect Al doesn't really believe this stuff but simply uses it as a way of building his power base.

This country has "freedom of speech" as one its fundamental tenets and letting racists such as Al Sharpton try to circumscribe that "free speech" by stating certain words are "off limits" to members of one race is both racist and proof that they don't really believe in our Constitution.  

Words have no power by themselves.   Even the emotional impact of words is contextual.   Having a bantering exchange that implies Tiger's competitors would rather eliminate him than face him in competition is NOT the same as having the Grand Wizard of the KKK say "let's lynch him because he is polluting the golf courses of the nation by his presence.

Political Correctness has gone way too far and I for one am sick of it.

Answer 9

It was a stupid comment, but unlike the comment made by Don Imus, it didn't seem to have a malicious intent.