Tiger Woods in Car Accident

I completely fail to see what's wrong with choosing someone you think is better for you - what other criterion is there?!

I completely fail to see what's wrong with choosing someone you think is better for you - what other criterion is there?!

Possibly white women are more pagan than black women. Maybe he saw a lot of Gothic movies in his youth.

And then Tiger Woods said he wasn't actually "black" at all -- he was "Cablinasian."

Woods made his remarks on "Oprah," when he was asked if it bothered him to be called an African-American. "It does," he said. "Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian.'" As in Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian. Woods has a black father (or to be precise, if I am interpreting Woods' reported ancestry correctly, a half-black, one-quarter American Indian, one-quarter white father) and a Thai mother (or, with the same caveat, a half-Thai, half-Chinese mother). "I'm just who I am," Woods told Oprah Winfrey, "whoever you see in front of you."

But just "who I am" remained contested ground. According to Time magazine, Woods' coming out as a Cablinasian caused "a mini-racial firestorm ... Woods' remarks infuriated many African Americans who ... see him as a traitor ... Some blacks saw Woods' assertion of a multiracial identity as a sellout that could touch off an epidemic of 'passing.'" Light-skinned Colin Powell, responding to Woods' comments, "In America, which I love from the depths of my heart and soul, when you look like me, you're black."

Adding fuel to the fire stirred up by Woods' comments are their political implications. Congress is considering adding a multiracial category to the 2000 census, and supporters of the controversial new category immediately seized upon Woods' statement as evidence that the old categories -- black, white, Asian and Pacific Islander, native American and "other" -- are inadequate. Civil rights groups like the NAACP, who are bitterly opposed to adding the multiracial category because they fear it will lead to a loss of black political and economic clout, are not likely to enjoy the spectacle of Woods becoming a poster child for multiracialism.

That's ******* racism!

It is, and the Blacks who feel that Tiger and Obama have disrespected them by not sufficiantly embracing their blackness, are racists.

Maybe, but they've had centuries of example and reinforcement to convince them to prefer what some of them sem to prefer what they may prefer.

I'm not an apologist. I just know the facts and reality. People prefer what they prefer.

Why should they have to explain or apologize for it

That is not what you said, you said that blacks are controlled by their history.

People- all people- are influenced by history

It makes sense to me that he does not identify with all of the Victimology of the Black culture, that he would rather play golf and **** hot women.

Do you really think that Tiger gives a tinkers damn about the history of the black people? I think he cares about golf, sex, money, and family in that order, with out much time to care about anything else. He certainly has had almost no chance to experience the racism that blacks complain about, he has been in a cocoon all of his life.

But I don't think for a moment his road has been a particularly easy one. Still and all - there's no way I can call him a victim. But race aside - if he saw Elin and said, 'Damn, she's beautiful and I love her blonde hair and blue eyes', I don't call that racist - just like if a white man saw Salma Hayak or Tyra Banks and said, 'Damn she's beautiful and I love her dark hair and dark eyes and caramel skin', I don't call that racist either - I call that individual preference.

However, other explanations are possible, for instance wanting what one has been told that they cant have. Black men often have been brought up by mothers and grandmothers (with few men around) who beat it into their heads that choosing a white woman is a betrayal of their race, this might have something to do with creating the appetite for white.

except I think it has less to do with their mothers and grandmothers saying it than it has to do with the white race in general (in the US at least) telling them - 'You are less than because your skin is brown and you can't have or even hope to touch the cream of the crop

Perhaps, I have heard claim of that kind of thinking in the South for instance. It does not compute for me though, because in the swinging circles that we run in Blacks are in high demand, and we play with Blacks some what often.