@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
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.
Strange, I thought that many black men grew up knowing from experience that if they chose a white woman, they would be beaten by a mob in the streets and hung from a tree. That policemen would stop them and refuse to acknowledge they were married.
I agree that there is a very small but very vocal minority that says that Woods should be a poster child for African Americans and they are unhappy that he has refused to take such a role. An even smaller minority has a problem with who he dates. That is their problem, certainly not Tiger's. Extrapolating that to an argument that black mothers and grandmothers brow-beat their sons seems like an extreme stretch. Like just about all men, Tiger has preferences and unlike most men, Tiger has enough assets to get him lots of access to women who meet those preferences. But there are plenty of black men who prefer black women as well. Looking at a few bi-racial couples and trying to turn that into valid conclusions about an entire race in the US seems absurd.