HAPPY WEEKEND
Gina Dizon
The smug and secretive Tiger Woods thought he was free and could get away from public scrutiny on his philandering. Wrong. Not when he had a car accident and woman after woman now numbering around 14 claiming they had sexual trysts with the star golfer.
The world got curious and people speculated, probed, and commented. His comfortable private world collapsed from its delicate walls and his scandalous womanizing sent him declaring an indefinite leave in the golf world to heal his ailing marriage, even just as his wife Elin Nordenberg was reported to be flying to Sweden to spend the Christmas vacation.
The world watched as the golf champion made his apology for his transgressions. The public was not contented. Tabloids, magazines and blogs are still talking about him. The latest controversy was his speculated divorce with his wife Elin, and his lack of choice for black women mistresses.
So while the Rev Al Sharpton’s alleged comment , "Why is it that a man who calls himself black can't bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?" in a press conference was not true, the glaring fact stands that women who came out professing their sexual affairs with Tiger Woods were all blonde women.
His lack of choice for black women was apparently a lapse to the black community or even an Asian mistress. His father is African-American, and his mother a Thai.
Jesse Washington ethnicity writer of Associated Press reports of Tom Joyner saying, "The question everyone in America wants to ask you (Tiger Woods) is, how many white women does one brother want?"
"There are two layers of suspicion toward him," said Van Kerkhove who has a Chinese mother and a Belgian father. “One toward the apparent pattern in the race of his partners, and the second in the way he sees himself. ... People have been giving him the side-eye for a while."
Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to refer to his tri-racial origins. "The issue comes in when you choose something white because you think it’s better," comedienne Sheryl Underwood said. "And then you never date a black woman or a woman of color or you never sample the greatness of the international buffet of human beings. If you never do that, we got a problem."
What he has done is a transgression most of all to his sponsors. This, as Gatorade, Gillette and Accenture dropped Tiger Woods from advertizing their products. That means a lot of money all gone the drain. It surely means a lot more money getting lost if Gatorade or Gillete will continue sponsoring a philandering endorser. “Look who’s talking’ surely would not be a good remark from someone about to buy a Gatorade or a Gillette product, then stops to and buys another brand instead.
The smug Tiger would have thought what he does in the privacy of his bedroom is private and not the business of the world. He must have been so smug thinking that he can get away with being a philandering husband and still enjoys the image of a revered public figure. He was definitely wrong.
When the agenda and interests of other people and groups are hurt by another person’s acts, it is when the problem begins. Privacy is not absolute.
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