{"id":7926,"date":"2001-04-09T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-09T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2021-07-03T02:58:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T02:58:42","slug":"lte-tiger-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2001\/04\/09\/lte-tiger-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Tiger Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:23:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: \u201cSaida\u201d seaghirl@yahoo.com<\/a><\/strong>
Subject: Letter to the Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Woods did mention that he does not consider himself Blacks. And why should he, his dad said that he was Native American, white, then Black. So I don’t look at Tiger Woods as Black or having anything to do with Black. No I’m not a “one drop” re-enforcer I don’t claim anyone into my race (the Black race) that does not want to be there. I notice that mix people use their “blackness” when they want to get scholarships, jobs, etc. Many mix celebrities who call themselves multiracial get Black roles, i.e. Vanessa Williams, Sidney Poitier’s (sp.?) daughter, etc’.I lost out of a scholarship to a white chick that claimed she was “black”. Black is more than a color, it is an experience, that many mix people will never know or understand. Their families never had to go through what my Black family went through in the south or when they moved north. I just want you to know for the record, I never ask what a person is racially. First off, if you look whatever that’s what I assume you are, and if you look a little beige I let it end at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s none of my business, and I know for a fact by articles, interviews, and books by mix people they get highly offended ONLY when Black people ask them that question. As if we (Black people) are the only was who as the question. Another thing, I don’t want to get a long lecture from mix people about why they call themselves whatever they call themselves. Mix people are the first people to holler we are the human race, but yet they want a category. Live with yourself and be happy, but I really don’t think it’s going to make you happy. I’ve only been on this earth a short time, but it’s been my observation that the question and category offends only mix people of the darker complexion. But like I said, live with yourself and be happy, but a category won’t make you happy, happy comes from within and not what you can classify yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:23:26 -0700 (PDT)From: \u201cSaida\u201d seaghirl@yahoo.comSubject: Letter to the Editor Tiger Woods did mention that he does not consider himself Blacks. And why should he, his dad said that he...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reader-forum","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-23Q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Letters-to-the-Editor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}