"Conceited Self Pity"
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler  I think this magazine showed some poor taste.....This magazine, golf week, mentions that the golf channel has no wiggle room and throws a noose on its cover. The womans comment I can forgive or understand, as they were spur of the moment and not really inflammatory, in the correct context. The magazine however, didn't just spur of the moment put a noose on its cover. They had to know it was controversial. |
It certainly makes golf digest appear trivial with nothing better to talk about.
Anyone that watched Gunsmoke, either while growing up or in syndicated reruns, has likely heard of lynchings, which are nearly always portrayed as a hasty mob action to hang an innocent person, in addition to it being without some sort of "administrative" due process.
There were hardly any blacks on gunsmoke.
The classic cinematic pitch forked, medeival witch hunt, anglo european mob scene also comes to mind.
Many people were lynched, and black lynchings are neither my first nor only association with the practice.
Thus, how likely is it that the commentator actually meant it as a black reference rather than a thoughtless generalization and flippant remark?
But known racist Al Dull Ton jumped into the spotlight to bolster a claim that only blacks are strongly associated with lynching, and to challenge the claim that it was an inspired reference to tiger woods being black, and calling for the commentator's dismissal.
Myself and an associate who is black, an intellectual and openly reasonable fellow, have had many conversations.
In a discussion about OJ, he proposed that the first thought that whites had was that OJ was guilty because he was black.
I disagreed and stated that such may have been their second thought, and that their first thought was that she deserved it for marrying a black.
He seemed puzzled, perhaps at the weight of the sentiment, which I had related in a comedic spirit.
What could he say? He supports the black family and shuns race mixing as well.
In other words, returning to the issue, other people are often secondary to one's personal considerations.