The mathematics of race behind the many affairs of Tiger Woods
The mathematics of race behind the many affairs of Tiger Woods
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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
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1) RACHEL UCHITEL |
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2) KALIKA MOQUIN |
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3) JAMIE GRUBBS |
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4) Jamie Jungers |
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5) Mindy Lawton |
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6) Cori Rist |
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7) Holly Sampson |
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8) Joslyn James |
"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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They also are a reflection of discomfort with a man who has smashed barriers in one of America'su00a0 whitest sports and assumed the mantle of the world's most famous athlete, once worn by Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
'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.
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