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Offline Dixie*Darling

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Tiger OK with 'lynch' remark, but Sharpton ready for battle
« on: January 10, 2008, 07:06:31 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/10/tilghman.woods/index.html

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By Eliott C. McLaughlin
CNN
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(CNN) -- Broadcaster Kelly Tilghman has apologized. Tiger Woods has accepted it. But the Rev. Al Sharpton says it isn't good enough.


Tiger Woods says he knows Kelly Tilghman meant nothing malicious by her remark last week.

In events resembling the prelude to the fall of radio host Don Imus, Sharpton appears to be marshaling his forces for a fight with the Golf Channel, which suspended Tilghman on Wednesday for a racially insensitive statement made last week.

Tilghman uttered the remark during coverage of Hawaii's Mercedes-Benz Championship on Friday, while she and and co-host Nick Faldo were bantering about how young golfers might challenge ever-dominant Woods.

Faldo said, "To take Tiger on, well yeah, they should just gang up for a while until ..."

"Lynch him in a back alley," Tilghman interrupted with a chuckle.

Tilghman is a far cry from Imus, the morning show host who was canned after calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos." Unlike the disc jockey, who is known for his off color humor and outspoken remarks, she has no history of stoking racial tensions.

But Sharpton says it is the word -- not the person or their history -- that matters. In a Wednesday interview, he compared Tilghman's statement to calling for a woman to be raped or for a Jewish-American to be sent to a gas chamber. Video Watch why Sharpton thinks apologies are insufficient » http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/10/tilghman.woods/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

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"Lynching is not murder in general. It is not assault in general. It is a specific racial term that this woman should be held accountable for," the reverend said. "What she said is racist. Whether she's a racist -- whether she runs around at night making racist statements -- is immaterial."

Sharpton said he wants Tilghman fired, period. And if the Golf Channel doesn't comply, the network can expect to see Sharpton and his National Action Network supporters picketing its Orlando, Florida, headquarters.

At first, the channel said it had no plans to discipline Tilghman, who issued a statement saying she had apologized to Woods and wanted to further apologize to offended viewers for "some poorly chosen words."

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Woods, who through his agent issued a statement saying he was friends with Tilghman and respected her, said, "We know unequivocally that there was no ill intent in her comments."


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Does anyone else NOT see this greasy bastard as an opportunist?  IMO he's not looking for social justice, he's looking for self promotion and money.  Disgusting.


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Re: Tiger OK with 'lynch' remark, but Sharpton ready for battle
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2008, 07:21:43 PM »
Unfortunately, the Golf Channel caved.. sort of..   They suspended her for 2 weeks.

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Re: Tiger OK with 'lynch' remark, but Sharpton ready for battle
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2008, 08:18:01 PM »
Unfortunately, the Golf Channel caved.. sort of..   They suspended her for 2 weeks.
That is a complete cave.  It was an unfortunate choice of words.  Had a black person said it we wouldn't even be talking about it.

It is quite a complement to Tiger -- as anyone with 2 brain cells knows, it meant that he wins damn near everything he enters and it doesn't matter how hard you work, Tiger will beat you.

Damn race pimps.  And they wonder why the black community can't get ahead.
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.