Many blacks are not sympathetic to Tiger. Whites are angry that Tiger would dare cheat on a white woman...but blacks are not so much angry as they are just enjoying relishing in Tiger's humiliating spectacle.
Blacks were angry when Tiger showcased himself as being "above black" by not calling himself black. So when the white world attacked Tiger for his cheating, the blacks enjoyed his downfall.
In their eyes, he turned on the blacks and should not expect sympathy.
In other words, blacks viewed him as an uppity black who got his comeuppance.
But there is a bit of irony in this. As usual white have made Tiger's actions a "Black thing", just like when whites who kept insisting Obama was biracial, started calling him a black guy (and using racial epithets) because they didn't like his policies (the fact that they resorted to using racial slurs only shows that they couldn't find any real problems with his ideals so they attacked his race to have something to bitch about).
But the fact that blacks are so happy to see Tiger taken down, they don't realize what this means...it means that whites are saying blacks are being uppity by doing what white people do often way too much.
But then again, maybe blacks do know this, and have accepted that a long time ago. Or maybe the joy of seeing Tiger fall is just too great to let themselves be burdened by white peoples usual "hang the black for a wrong that you slap the wrist of a white person for".
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
A slice of irony about Tiger Woods
Posted by myperspective08 at 7:58 AM
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