By Desi Cortez
Sports Writers of America, no, let me be precise here,
“White” Sports Writers of America, permit me to ask this question of
you; What does crow, actually striped tiger crow taste like?
I forgot what game it was where post-prison Mike Vick threw
for almost 300 yards and ran for over 100 strategic back breaking
yards, and I hammered-out a piece-of-my-mind, asking the same question
of the same White Wordsmiths – “what does crow taste like . . .”
Outside of the “die nigger . . .die luv letters I received
. . . it was so-quiet you could hear a rat piss on cotton. . . Vick
was like Clint Eastwood in “Hang ‘em high” he came back and got payback,
revenge, screw redemption – he silenced his critics.
That’s what Tigers doing – “silencing his critics. . . “ by
winning. After all – winning takes care of everything. Wining the
Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando, Fla., to regain the No. 1
ranking for the first time since Oct. 24, 2010.
The over-the-top ill-will we all heard and saw aimed at
Woods, is of the same-vein we saw play-out in the Vick lynching; “do to
Vick what he did to dogs . . . .” As if both lives are equal.
Yet we know . . . in the eyes of millions of Whites - a
Black person’s life and that of Rin Tin Tin or Lassie are
one-in-the-same. . . .
These attacks are derived from two things;
the hate-filled “wishful thinking” a large segment of Whites have for
Blacks – they were waiting and hoping for Tiger’s demise, merely based
on his skin-color.
The “gutter-low” expectations are the ones those same
Whites historically and still today reserve for Blacks – we can’t fly
airplanes, perform brain surgery, put-out a fire, quarterback a football
team or be President of these no longer united states of America.
That “American Exceptionalism” mentality which translates into “White Supremacy.”
“Hate-filled wishful thinking” in-that after a half-century
on this planet – I agree with both the Black intelligentsia and the
Black man on the corner – White folks think lowly of Black people,
end-of-story.
And that blanket summation of WASP culture is illustrated
via the enslavement and the following 4th class treatment Blacks have
received. And there’s no questioning the civil rights gains of this
nation were achieved with well-over half of White America “objecting,”
and only going along in a “kickin’ n’ screamin’” manner.
Look at the Supreme Court . . . as we speak Judge Scalia
and his house negro Clarence Thomas are attempting to dismantle the
work of MLK, JFK, LBJ, FDR and even ol Abe, reverse the society wide
“progress” which created “uppity niggers” – like the one in the White
House. This court is doing the work of the “White Establishment,”
working to keep the barbarians at the gates, the Mexicans at the border
and all of us on the urban reservations killing each other.
Gutter low expectations
Now wait, don’t turn-up your nose, roll your eyes and
dismiss my notion as “Desi playing the race-card again . . . that’s all
he does.“
Look, when I run-across one of those surveys/polls where
Black children and Black senior citizens receive inferior medical
treatment and service when compared n’ contrasted to White counterparts
with the identical background . . . White nurses and doctors don’t
prescribe Black babies and grandmothers the same cures White folks
receive . . . and you can extend this disparity to banking, real
estate, education . . . it merely solidifies my belief that not all, but
say well-over half of most White people I encounter, at the end of the
day . . . see me as inferior by my very nature . . . .
And he see’s the nation, the world, the people who inhabit it . . . differently than I do.
We’re all riff-raff, trash . . . the unwashed masses.
I want to join hands and sing “Kumbaya” and “We Are The
World” – most White folks, and specifically men – see it how history
tells us they’ve always seen it . . . “the world is mine.”
From this mentality we get Euro-Colonialism/Manifest
Destiny, i.e., the genocide of the North/South American Natives, the
enslavement of Blacks, the killing-off of the Buffalo, the cutting-down
of the giant Sequoia Trees, the killing-off of Whales . . a general
disrespect of everything n’ everybody with personal-profit valued above
all-else.
Throw-in greed, unbridled, unchecked reckless, careless
laissez faire capitalism . . . and those are the elements which have
shaped our nation/world.
Tighten your belts, I’m gonna swing-it-back-to-Tiger . . .
He’s believed to be, by a significant percentage of Whites, “inferior,”
somehow “lacking” in his genetic makeup. His culture, his upbringing,
the morals n’ values his parents passed down to him . . . all lacking.
Throw into-the-mix Tiger “betrayed” his marriage vows, on
numerous occasions, with a multitude of bimbos. Which gave his critics
the opportunity to point-out . . . he was a Black man after all, like
Bill Clinton . . . .
White men don’t cheat on their wives . . . they were raised right.
In the guesstimation of the White court of public opinion –
Tiger’s shortcomings and failures indicated he was clearly nothing more
than another brainwashed millionaire nigger . . . strung-out on White
tramps . . . and when it’s all said n’ done, the full-grown boy lacks
the determination and heart to climb back-up on-top of the country club
wimps and kick sand in their faces.
Gee, how wrong they were. I believe they underestimated the man.
In a nation where over 50% of all marriages are plagued by
extramarital affairs and 75% of unions end in divorce . . . who are they
to pile-on-top, and kick this cat when he was down, but we all read it
and heard it. Tiger was a womanizer . . . and they’re may not be a
Hobbit’s handful of pro-golfers and sports writers who haven’t committed
some form of the same crimes against holy matrimony.
And Gee, how wrong were these experts of the game to predict his reign was over . . . .
His critics claimed he was emotionally/mentally scarred for
life, unable to focus in the clutch, stay consistent. He was getting
old. Too beat -up.
They had low-expectations of Tiger.
Now the only ones choking are the pundits and pontificators
who had this man dismissed to the status of another broken, battered
and rejected OJ . . . who too was punished for betraying his honorary
White guy status society had rewarded him with.
White America tolerated OJ bedding a beautiful Blond
bombshell . . . they permitted him to golf at the county club in 1980.
The same-powers-that-be turned a blind-eye to Tiger’s taking of the
Nordic snow princess and they allowed him to pitch their products –
everything n’ anything to the unwashed masses.
There are those who wanted to write Tiger off for betraying
the trust they had in him that he was one of the “good-ones” they could
count-on to not screw-up the money. That Tiger didn’t have the flaws
most men have . . . that’s asking too much of any man.
Now they’re choking on crow.
Most men, and women are “collections-of-contradictions.” We do “right’ and we do “wrong.”
At the end-of-the-day. most of us try to do much-more good
than bad. A doctor saves a life in the AM and slaps his wife in the PM,
same for a fireman or cop. I expect from humans mistakes and accidents,
frailties, faults and flaws – none of us are perfect.
