The Emperor's New Clothes

The Emperor's New Clothes

Labels: Tiger Woods

I've done my best to let this Tiger Woods mess pass by and stay quiet, but as each day goes by, it gets messier. But what I have to say is simple, it's none of my business or yours! Our insatiable appetite for self-destruction and 24-hour news cycles has given this far more light than should be applied to something that's between a man and a woman.

And that's where I'm going to start, Tiger Woods is a man first, professional golfer next. He's not your preacher or your husband, so outrage from anyone else is preposterous. The notion that Tiger Woods needs to apologize to his fans or anyone outside of his wife is asinine! Well...maybe Black women! Tiger seemingly had everything he could want, golf championships, millions of dollars and his White woman. I guess all he could want was, more golf championships, millions more, and more White women!

Tiger has already begun to lose some of those precious endorsements that athletes cultivate their image so hard for, but Nike chairman Phil Knight has called all of the recent happenings, "a minor blip" and that's exactly what it is. It is not like he killed someone or committed a crime, if anything, he needs to stop protecting his wife and file charges against her for going upside his head! I mean he did a little tricking (it's always tricking!), but what did we expect?

The real issue here is that he offended the most delicate part of the population, White women, who thought he was won of the good Black guys. Guess Barack is all they have left now...

I've never cared for him one way or the other, but I know someone should've put him up on game a long time ago, this is where not having some brothers around hurts, you don't leave your bust-it baby a message that start's with "Hello, it's Tiger." Nigga you say, "Hey it's me"! But that wasn't even where the trouble started. The first mistake was marrying someone's help! I know they say she's a model, but have you ever seen her on a billboard? In a magazine? On the catwalk? She was Jesper Parnevik's nanny! What were her & Tiger supposed to kick it about, Martha Stewart?

Mr. Woods plays a sport that primarily exists within a world that many of us will never have access to, the country club, where more backdoor deals and adulterous relationships amongst the upper crust take place and here he is living out his soap opera on Google!

Tiger's father left a wife and three kids to marry Tiger's mom and eventually divorced her as well. So, let's not act like the younger Mr. Woods came from the best example, even though his dad did his best to paint young Eldridge as some sort of Saint. But now, that he has gone from saint to sinner, he's taking an indefinite leave from his job. Imagine that, taking time off of work because you left your ring in the cookie jar...

So, the supreme exalted ruler of the sports world now wears a scarlet "A" beneath his Nike swoosh and the upturned noses of snobs everywhere are looking down on him for the time being...guess he finally knows how it feels to be a Nigga!