One black man, 8 white women

The mathematics of race behind the many affairs of Tiger Woods

The mathematics of race behind the many affairs of Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods may not see the end to the ongoing controversy anytime soon. In fact, the avalanche is now gathering momentum.

Eleven affairs later including two unidentified mistresses his flings are now being seen through coloured glasses.

The eight known Tiger Woods mistresses are all white. The puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses are being kept on the back burners for now.

When three white women were said to be romantically involved with Woods in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and barbershops had started humming, and his already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating.

On the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, Woods was the butt of jokes all week.



Eight and counting

1) RACHEL UCHITEL 34, VIP hostess at a club New Yorker and 9/11 widow. Has a reputation of dating married celebs. "She's always popping out of her blouse," says a co-worker. "But very good at bringing VIPs to the clubs."

2) KALIKA MOQUIN 27, Nightclub executive Named Las Vegas' 31st most influential person in nightlife circles by Life & Style magazine. Denies sex with Tiger. "She was absolutely sleeping with him. She brags about it!" an insider says.

3) JAMIE GRUBBS 24, cocktail waitress, reality TV star Works in Los Angeles. Tabloids claim they have more than 300 racy texts and one incriminating voicemail message from Tiger to Jamie saved. She's the tell-all poster-girl of the controversy.

4) Jamie Jungers 26, cocktail waitress, reality TV star The busty headturner from Las Vegas started her affair with Woods in the golfer's suburban Orlando home in 2004 when she was just 20 years old.

5) Mindy Lawton 34, Pancake house waitress The Orlando girl claimed she was dumped in 2007 after a 14-month affair. She said Woods never wore condoms. "Sometimes I looked like a rag doll after we'd made love. He did like it quite rough."

6) Cori Rist 31, Night clubber Tiger's been diddling this 31-year-old "actress" whose filmography includes Diary of a Horny Housewife, Girl on Girl Tickle Wards, and Suck It Dry 6.

7) Holly Sampson 36, Porn star She met Tiger at a New York hotspot called Butter, and they've been spreading it around ever since. They're saying that the secret to good golf: It's all in the Rist.

8) Joslyn James 38, Porn star The brunette has the word "orgasm" tattooed on her left thigh and reportedly considered herself the golfer's full-time mistress. In her porn roles, 34DD Joslyn specialises in kinky sex.

"Thankfully, Tiger, you didn't marry a black woman. Because if a sister caught you running around with a bunch of white hoochie-mamas, one parody suggests in song, she would have castrated him.

The Grinch's Theme Song didn't stop there, "The question everyone in America wants to ask you is, how many white women does one brother waaant?"

As one blogger, Robert Paul Reyes, wrote, "If Tiger had cheated on his gorgeous white wife with black women, the golfing great's accident would have been barely a blip in the blogosphere." The darts reflect blacks' resistance to interracial romance.
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'Cablinasian'

But Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term Cablinasian (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his African-American father and Thai mother.

This vexed some blacks, but it hasn't stopped them from claiming Woods as one of their own.

Or from disapproving of his marriage to Elin Nordegren, despite blacks' historical fight against white racist opponents of mixed marriage.

Although a recent poll showed that 94 per cent of blacks say it's all right for blacks and whites to date, a study in the US showed that blacks are less likely to actually date outside their race than are other groups.

"There is a call for loyalty that is stronger than in other racial communities," said the author of the study, George Yancey, a sociology professor.

The colour of one's companion has long been a major measure of "blackness" which is a big reason why the biracial Barack Obama was able to fend off early questions about his black authenticity.

"Had Barack had a white wife, I would have thought twice about voting for him," one said.