Now Is Time for Tiger to Fulfill Father’s Prophecy January 13, 2008
Posted by Marquis Chapman in Golf, Sports.2 comments
Here is an interesting article from ESPN.com written by Scoop Jackson. Scoop gives his opinion on how he felt Tiger Woods should have handled the racist remarks made by Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman:
In the words of his late father, he was put here to change the world.
“He will transcend this game … and bring to the world … a humanitarianism … which has never been known before. The world will be a better place to live in … by virtue of his existence … and his presence.”
What Earl Woods foretold for his son in that Sports Illustrated article in December 1996, most of us have been privileged to witness. Not just on the golf course, but also in the way Tiger Woods handles life. Not only his, but life in general. He has been, if you look beyond the apparent, the perfect “Cablinasian” of Jordan, Oprah and Obama. Not only in skill, but in character, and in having the almost innate ability to make race — specifically his race — a nonissue. As Greg Garber once wrote on ESPN.com, “In the end, Woods has served as an example of racial harmony simply by being himself.”
Now comes the hard part.
When the Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman used the phrase “lynch him in a back alley” to describe how young players on the PGA Tour should overcome Tiger’s dominance, it was the latest in a long line of inconsiderate and inappropriate comments that have been made about people of color (especially African-Americans) in the world of sports.
