Sorry, but I love it when they "put Tiger in his place with race". He does so much to avoid his blackness, so I am glad when others don't.

^^that's f*cked up.

Yea, every couple of years someone says something to remind him that he's in fact brown and not green. Like clockwork. Although using the word "lynch" was a little stupid on the anchors part.

Sorry Summer, but I have no patience for people of color, particular ones with even some African descent acting like they need to avoid it like the plague- now that's f*ucked up.
So if it takes "da man" to remind your self-hating azz that they still see a black man through all that Cablasian mumbo jumbo , then so be it.

I just looked up Cablinasian and every link was some ish about Tiger. Just now realized that he totally made up the word. I'm sitting here belly laughing at how silly that is. The best definition is one that I got from Urban Dictionary:

3. cablinasian

A term Tiger Woods himself made up as a justification to marry a white woman with less shame.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

While I am not a fan of people who avoid any or all of their black heritage, I think Tiger Woods has the right to call himself biracial/Cablinasian just like Barack Obama has the right to call himself black.

A "fried chicken" comment is one thing, but “lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley” is inexcusable and would be no more offensive if he were talking about Venus Williams or LeBron James.

@blackmistressdiva - Tiger said that he made the word up when he mentioned it on that infamous Oprah episode several years ago.

Hmmm..I didn't see that. I am a fan of his game, but not of him personally so I usually don't pay much attention to anything re him that isn't on Sportscenter.

Yep, he has the right to call himself anything he wants. The difference between he and Obama is that Obama has NEVER tried to minimize any part of him by using the good old I am 25% this or 75% that.

Lola Falana says:
Sorry, but I love it when they “put Tiger in his place with race”. He does so much to avoid his blackness, so I am glad when others don’t.

Aaaagreeeddd!

@Lola Falana - Yes, I know that as anyone who has read three words about Obama or Tiger Woods would know.

It still doesn't excuse Kelly Tilghman's remarks. Lynching is bigger than Tiger, Kelly or Barack.

I really don't see Tiger "avoiding his blackness like the plague." He was always proud of his father — very publicly so. (People trying to deny their blackness tend to hide things that tie them to it.) He never, ever denied blackness. He just chose to embrace all of his heritage rather than defining himself the way slaveholders and anti-miscegenist defined blackness. Sure, I think it would've been nice to hear him describe himself as a black man. But um, he doesn't have to. That's his perogative. Doesn't make him a race-traitor. Doesn't make him deserving of racist remarks.

Sure, he married the white chick, but there are plenty of dudes way darker than me who aren't any kind of mixed doing that.

I think he probably identifies more with "white culture" cause that's who he was raised around. That's my guess anyways. I personally don't know many (or any) black golfing-focused families. So blame his parents for that.

Let me qualify my statement "He never, ever denied blackness," by adding the words "publicly" and "to my knowledge."

What summer said! I don't ever recall Tiger denying his blackness, but the truth is he's not just black. I don't see what is wrong with him acknowledging his OTHER parent and her heritage. Put him in his place? Nah… why do we feel the need to so narrowly define someone's place?

By the way, didn't he make up the word as a kid? I'm not sure.

If my dating history is any indication of who I will end up with, my children will probably be multiracial and I would want them to acknowledge and experience all parts of their heritage.

The mere length of that term can give the impression that he's trying to minimize his blackness, but that's probably not the case. I have several Hapa and Blasian friends. I don't even bat my eyes at those terms and maybe that's because I hear them so often whereas I don't hear Cablinasian so much. I think it's wonderful that not only do they bond with people of each of their cultures but that they also have a cohesive group of people with the same heritage who look like them and have similar upbringings. In terms of quality of life and comfort with racial identity, I've found that biracial people with those strong networks with everyone to be FAR more comfortable in their skin and with their racial identity than pretty much everyone else.

I've never even heard the term "Hapa" and I think I've heard "Blasian" once, but I don't recall in what context. What are they?

Erndale, everytime the discussion of Tiger comes up,there is the comment that blacks that question him are somehow asking him to forget he has an Asian mother. How much sense would that make? She is his mother, so hopefully no one is that stupid to expect him to slight her.
He should acknowledge all of his makeup BUT he does not with the same level of respect. He purposely minimizes.

This is the same "brotha" that told Essence no to an exclusive interview, but was willingly interviewed by GQ and Rolling Stone in the same month…and no, it was not a scheduling conflict, it was a diss. I know that for a fact.

At the end of the day we are all multiracial to some degree, I am just sick and tired of some people of color, acting like the black part is the tainted part of their gene pool. I say if you want nothing to do with us, then we should not support you in any way.
Let "them" do so, until you piss them off
(hello OJ and Vanessa L. Williams).

wow. i'm surprised at at all the tiger-hating. i don't care much about him one way or the other. however, he has the right to be whomever he wants to be. i completely agree with nichelle - lynching is WAY bigger then tiger or barack ,and no person of color regardless how much or little blackness he or she exhibits deserves that sort of comment. sheesh. tough room.

@Lola- I totally co-sign. Tiger deserves this treatment. Let his wife and mother fight against the discrimination and racism against him. Since we mean very little, then we should have no concern.