By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
Tiger Woods might still be one of the best golf players in the world, but since the scandal that pretty much put his obsession with cheating on his wife at the time on blast for the world to see, the golf star hasn’t been viewed the same by the public since. And before the cheating scandal that led to his former wife Elin Nordegren divorcing him, he was already at odds with the Black community because of his rather interesting views on his race. Mixed with Asian and African-American, a lot of black people felt the star athlete wanted desperately not to be viewed as black considering he labeled himself as “Cablinasian.” Regardless of his views on his race, even Tiger wasn’t happy to be the center of a racist joke made by fellow golf player Sergio Garcia. Here’s what Garcia asked if he would invite Tiger Woods for dinner during the US Open:
“We will have him ’round every night. We will serve fried chicken.”
Tiger of course was offended by the “joke,” and took to his Twitter account to blast the golf player for making such a racist remark. Tiger tweets:
“The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate…I’m confident that there is real regret that the remark was made. The Players ended nearly two weeks ago and it’s long past time to move on and talk about golf.”
Of course as always when someone makes it clear they are racist by making stupid jokes or comments, Sergio Garcia apologized in a statement:
“I apologize for any offense that may have been caused by my comment on stage during the European Tour Players’ Awards. I answered a question that was clearly made towards me as a joke with a silly remark, but in no way was the comment meant in a racist manner.”
Right…
As well as Tiger should have blasted his racist azz he is just jealous of Tiger success point blank period.
I really don’t know what else white folks have to do to this man before he gets that yeah, his a-s is black.
LOL!
They say these things to him because they still see him as a black man and they are mad at his success. This is why he shouldn’t have tried to downplay his blackness. Even in 2013, the one drop rule is still in effect.
True!!
Agreed.
Damn. Did he really have to say all that? And then tried to say it wasn’t racist. Chile…
I hate when racist people apologize. Stand by that ignorance you believe you trash.
So white folks are still going to pretend that black people are the only people who eat fried chicken, but I see their hypocritical a-sses in there all the time buying a bucket of chicken. LOL.
LOL! So true!
lmao right! Life is too short to be passing this ignorance off as humor. What have black people as a whole done that is so bad that people feel the need to bash an entire race for no reason? I’ll never get it…
Wow. I can’t believe people are still this stupid and racist in 2013. How pathetic.
He only apologized because he felt like he had to save his image. Bastard.
The racist jabs white people take at us are so old. Really? Fried Chicken? That’s still the best they can do? LOL.
He needs to keep his phony apology. What a d-ck.
WOW. Damn. I hope Tiger sees he is black now!
Someone is a hater.
Ridiculous. I’m not even a Tiger fan but this was really tacky and racist. And we all know he meant what he said too.
Tiger doesn’t even consider himself as being black, so what does that say about him. No sympathy here.
Agreed. I don’t feel sorry for him either becuz he hates his own blackness, so what he mad for? This just goes to show him no matter how differently you try to portray yourself when the world sees you, they still see a black face