Watching the Tiger Woods doc, I just felt intense pity for someone who seems to have willingly starved themselves of Black camaraderie and its many joys.
Its difficult to comment on an adult's life, one I know quite little about. But imagine spending your whole life without the counsel of your kinfolk. That's the true tragedy to me.
Watching the doc with my Af-Am and Af friends, we just kept shouting "all you needed was one Black friend. just one!" The friends he had in that doc were really something else
The other thing about the #TigerHBO doc is, to me, it was a film about what happens when a Black man decides he isn't Black. I think that was his big crime because it clearly infuriated the golf world. It's what motivated them/w-America to humiliate him at every turn imho
His refusal to acknowledge their hierarchy, forced them (wh-America) to do whatever they could to show him he was a ******. They made him a deadbeat dad, called him a drug addict, painted his sexuality as deviant and animalistic, arrested him, whatever they could do to they did
Tiger's true crime was his audacity to believe that he belonged. #TigerHBO
That said, my thread is saying two things.
1. my denying his Blackness he angered wh-America, even though I think that was part of the armor he put on to compete in the lily-white hellscape that is golf
2. in so doing, he starved himself of the wisdom and love of Black friendship
*by
I enjoy Black people and I believe my life is enriched by having Black friends. That is not a controversial position.
Tiger woods can do as he wishes and befriend who he wants. I am a stranger on the internet and my opinion is irrelevant. Also, I am poor.

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