Tiger’s rejection of our community, like OJ Simpson before him, comes with a price. Black folks can and do revel in the meaning of his extraordinary triumph, but we’re not cheering him
Michael Jordan called it the greatest comeback he has ever seen. After all of the trials and tribulations, all of the ridicule and mockery, all of the personal and professional humiliations, Tiger Woods shocked the world by fighting off a field of younger competitors to win his first major title in over a decade at Augusta National Golf Club.
You may not have a pulse if you didn’t feel at least a little warm inside as Tiger passionately embraced his son behind the 18th green, a scene reminiscent of the bear hug that he shared with his late father Earl Woods after winning the Masters for the first time back in 1997. As a father, I can honestly say that it almost made my allergies start acting up.
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