She is very good friends with Tiger. Tiger's people immediately put out a statement on how this was a non issue and he knew she just used a bad choice of words. The problem is that Al Sharpton jumped in and now has everyone all riled up.
deerayfan072 wrote:She is very good friends with Tiger. Tiger's people immediately put out a statement on how this was a non issue and he knew she just used a bad choice of words. The problem is that Al Sharpton jumped in and now has everyone all riled up.
This whole situation is a sad, but true, commentary of how ridiculous some people in our society have gotten with their ambulance chasing and constant pot-stirring type attitudes nowadays.
This should have been a non-issue from the point that Tiger and his lawyers released the statement, period...
The term 'lynching' is something I don't think a white man/woman could ever truly understand without living in black skin. It was (is?) a horrible, degrading, tragic manner of killing a black man... with no trial and rarely justice against the perps. We (white people) simply cannot understand, try as we might.
So for someone to publicly use that word, even jokingly in reference to a friend, shows a HUGE lack of sound judgement.
You don't need to be black to be lynched...
It's just a term for describing an angry mob intent on killing something. (Think Frankenstein...the pickaxes and what not.)
From an online dictionary "To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob."
People lynched witches, lawbreakers, rebels, not just blacks!
People that are supersensitive to anything that could be taken as racist are racist themselves.
The term 'lynching' is something I don't think a white man/woman could ever truly understand without living in black skin. It was (is?) a horrible, degrading, tragic manner of killing a black man... with no trial and rarely justice against the perps. We (white people) simply cannot understand, try as we might.
So for someone to publicly use that word, even jokingly in reference to a friend, shows a HUGE lack of sound judgement.
You don't need to be black to be lynched...
It's just a term for describing an angry mob intent on killing something. (Think Frankenstein...the pickaxes and what not.)
From an online dictionary "To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob."
People lynched witches, lawbreakers, rebels, not just blacks!
People that are supersensitive to anything that could be taken as racist are racist themselves.
This happens way too often...
It is easy for me to call it an over-reaction, I am white and my family or predecessors had no reason to fear being lynched. Easy were I not to associate the word lynching with a hate filled mob action and understand the had my family ever had to live in fear of such activities I am sure the very word coming from a white person would not be the least bit funny. In fact, the more I think of it I wonder just how it is that she came to choose such verbage.
Also, a spokesperson for ACME oversized orthotic boot Co. issued a statement that Frankenstein has been friends with her and takes no offense to her comments. Now had she of said take a torch to him...
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moochman wrote:Also, a spokesperson for ACME oversized orthotic boot Co. issued a statement that Frankenstein has been friends with her and takes no offense to her comments. Now had she of said take a torch to him...
say what you want, but I know someone who worked with her at the Golf Channel and saw how she and Tiger joked around a lot. She is the only anchor he will sit down and do an interview with for the golf channel. This is a non-issue for him, trust me
White people were lynched too, just not as frequently:
Tuskeegee Institute records of lynchings between the years 1880 and 1951 show 3437 African-American victims, as well as 1293 white victims, nearly all of whom were registered Republicans.
Sharpton and Jackson unfortunately never pass up a opportunity to...
...regardless of whether it's warranted or not - it's their raison d'etre!
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stomperrob wrote:White people were lynched too, just not as frequently:
Tuskeegee Institute records of lynchings between the years 1880 and 1951 show 3437 African-American victims, as well as 1293 white victims, nearly all of whom were registered Republicans.
Sharpton and Jackson unfortunately never pass up a opportunity to...
...regardless of whether it's warranted or not - it's their raison d'etre!
Lol, that is an awesome picture! I must save it and recycle it as my own (joking of course )!
stomperrob wrote:White people were lynched too, just not as frequently:
Tuskeegee Institute records of lynchings between the years 1880 and 1951 show 3437 African-American victims, as well as 1293 white victims, nearly all of whom were registered Republicans.
Sharpton and Jackson unfortunately never pass up a opportunity to...
...regardless of whether it's warranted or not - it's their raison d'etre!
Lol, that is an awesome picture! I must save it and recycle it as my own (joking of course )!
Feel free to steal it,lol - I got it from Google Images!
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