Post racial society indeed. Tiger Woods, the Post-Racial Philanderer by John McWorter:
I can imagine a black stand-up routine where somebody said “These wives standing by their men admitting they fooled around – if Tiger’s wife was black you know she’d be all over his ass!!! (Ha ha ha …).” Well, it seems hardly unlikely that Tiger’s skinny blond lady came after him with a golf club. Call it a “black” experience – or evidence that people are people and Tiger has been leading nothing but a human life. Isn’t that what we wanted?
Supposedly if he had been sleeping with black women America wouldn’t care – this is a major thread in the blogs, such as here. But is this true? Let’s say the photos of the Tiger bimbos were of shapely brown-skinned babes – can we really say that the tabloids would suddenly lose interest and go home? Wouldn’t this be even better news – i.e. “Looks like Tiger got tired of his skinny white trophy wife and needed some chocolate?” [...] The Civil Rights revolution was about allowing people to not only become President, but to fuck up “post-racially.” Let’s – as progressives in the true sense – go with it.
What a bunch of bullshit. Why do we obsess over any little thing that distracts from real, life-altering events happening now on our planet? Why do I lend credence to this discussion by blogging about it? Because I’m caught in the trap sprung by the Motherfucking TMZ media generation, and any discussion that begins with “why does Tiger only sleep with white girls,” makes my blood boil beneath my skin. The irony here is our post-racial society– initially achieved by relegating our bigoted, segregated past to the back of the bus— cannot properly function without being racially divisive. Who are we?
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