Media Portfolio #10

http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/tiger-and-the-noose/

This article is about the reference a white television golf analysis made, "if players want to keep up with tiger they will have to lynch him and put him in a noose." Kelly Tilghman, the golf commentator, made those remarks about Tiger after a final round in a tournoment a month ago. Having used these remarks is very offensive and harmful. Luckily for her,Tiger took them with a grain of salt and was not offended. The reporter was suspened for two weeks without pay and apologized to evreyone who was offened by her remarks.

You can relate this article to what in class activity we did last week. When you got out a picture of a noose and we decribed some of the things that came to mind will looking at the picture. Then after that you showed us that video of the pictures with the blacks being hung. By having a respected white women use discrimination with such statements makes it hard for blacks and whites ever to be completely looked at the same. Tiger Woods is one of the only multi racial golfers on the tour and by directing these remarks to the white members on the golf tour make the situation a sticky one. It was an unfortunate situation that has been resolved. Nooses are evry scary things that have many different meanings behind them. The one meaning which the noose relate to everyone is the word hate. If Tiger Woods was white the reporter would have never made these comments becuase the would not have made any sense. Wright decribes in his writings the different things whites did against blacks during the Jim Crow law times. It is a very sad thing to look at but by realizing the problems in the past can help right those same problems in the future.

I love golf and heard the women make the comments live on television. I thought alot about what she had said and felt bad for her because you could tell she wanted to take them back as soon as she said them. The sad part of the situation for her is that, that is her job to give her opionion on different things. Althought the comments she made were true, the fact of the matter is that you can not make comments with such harsh history behind them.