Is Kelly Tilghman a Racist?
Michael Richards best known for his role as Kramer on the hit comedy "Seinfield," while performing at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles called black audience members the n-word. The incident started multiple conversations around the world of who could and could not use the word.
Radio shock jock Don Imus called the women's basketball team at Rutgers University "nappy-headed hos." This remark also stirred up controversy. Don Imus lost his job and got a new one with and African American co host Karith Foster....go figure.
It seems like Mel Gibson uses words as lethal weapons. The actor blames Jews for being "responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson made headlines when he spoke at Cal State University of Northridge and cursed out a member of the audience. Gibson became angered after the audience member started questioning Gibson about the racism in the film "Apocalypto." The woman was asked to leave the lecture. "I think you're a fucking troublemaker, so fuck off," Gibson said as she left.
Kelly Tilghman is a former golfer for Duke University and the play-by-play announcer for the PGA Tour on The Golf Channel. ESPN reported that the announcer apologized after stating that the young golf players today should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley," at the Mercedes-Benz Championship Friday.
According to Newsday, Tilghman apologized for her comments on a telecast Sunday. Tilghman's comments are just as offensive as Imus comments towards the Rutgers Women's Basketball team, if not worse. Will Tilghman be fired for her remarks as Imus was fired for his remarks? Only time will tell what waits for this young inexperienced anchor.
Tilghman didn't literally mean for them to go out and lynch Woods...then why did she say it? Richards didn't mean to call those men Niggers. Imus didn't literally mean the women on the Rutgers Basketball team are "nappy-headed hos." What did they mean? What did they mean to say that didn't come out of their mouths? They all literally meant to say what they said.
In King's August 1963 speech the Baptist minister said "let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred." As Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday is celebrated next week we should stop and think if King's dream has been achieved.
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Post a CommentYep, the b*tch is racist. When does the word 'lynch' ever enter a normal person's mind nowadays, anyway?
This whole debate is an interesting taste of American Sociology for me. Being a Canadian who has never endureded the whole "race card" issue, it kinda makes me laugh. Kelly Tilghman's quote WAS taken out of context as far as I'm concerned, and you Americans are kinda living in the past....GO Obama!!
Wow my brother...the only way to start change is to be the change. Hate is not the answer. I send blessings to the pain and anguish that is in your heart, in your soul. Be the spiritual love you speak of, for spiritual love knows know hate. Blessings my brother...many blessings...
You folks just don't get it. "Lynch" is a word full of emotional baggage for black folks. There's nothing funny about it. Why would she use that term? She could have said take him in an ally and break his leg or take him out and shoot him. There are any number of ways she could have made her "sarcastic" remark without using the term "lynch". I read someone's comment that Tiger is not black. What an idiot. His father was black. There were states in this country with laws that said if a person had one drop of black blood that made them black. When Tiger was growing up there were places he could not play because of his color/race. A lot of you people live in a bubble. Everyone wants to say racism is overblown or exaggerated. You say that because you haven't experienced it. But that a woman who is supposed to be Tiger's "friend" can just let something like this "slip out" shows that racism is there, even if unconsciously.
Tiger Woods isnt black, lynching just means hanging without due process, and she said it without thinking. This was blown way out of proportion just like everything else on the news.
Was it a poor choice of words? Yes. Is she a bonehead for saying it? Yes. Is she a racist? I think to assume so simply because she made a severe verbal faux pas is irresponsible. I, unlike some people, lack the ability to see the true intentions and character of a person I don't know based on one comment that was made amidst a bunch of meaningless banter on a program I don't watch.
If she is Tiger Woods' friend, then I'd have to say, without hearing the telecast, or seeing the script, her words have probably been taken out of context.
I think it was simply a mistake and Tiger Woods has accepted the apology over it. I would say she's not one at all.
What about McCain at the debates? John McCain was racist in the SC debate, read it here:
http://www.nolanchart.com/article1084.html
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
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Frankly, I doubt she even realized what she said.