Elizabeth Gates, the daughter of Professor Henry Louis Gates, and a correspondent for The Daily Beast, has thrown herself into the Tiger Woods media frenzy by blogging about Tiger’s preference for white women.
Here’s a mixed race woman (her mother is white) who probably only dates white guys, critiquing a mixed race man who prefers white women. The hypocrisy in her blog is laughable. She makes the argument that Tiger could have done the “right thing” and kept his distance from white women, but he didn’t.
She writes:
He went out, met a few girls, and got caught. Textbook prophesy for a young, attractive athlete. At least he didn’t beat his wife like Mike Tyson did.
She actually wrote that!
Naturally, her readers ripped her a new one and rightfully so. Elizabeth would have gotten her point across better had she explained the public outcry from a mixed race person’s perspective since she titled her blog ‘Tiger’s Thing for White Girls.’
Apparently, Gates doesn’t see a problem with Woods cheating on his wife. She only faults him for getting caught. Gates also “did not think Janet Jackson should have apologized for showing her nipple during the Super Bowl, whether it was a mistake or not.”
Those of you who think the media frenzy surrounding the Tiger Woods saga is simply about his cheating, think again.
One reader wrote:
Someone didn’t stay at Spelman long enough to learn what irony means. Maybe you should have a talk with Daddy Gates about why HE only dates White women.
And guess what Lizzie, unlike you Tiger Woods LIKES his mother and is proud of HER race. He considers himself part Asian out of respect for his mother as well as to face the FACTS of his biology. Sorry that YOU have mommie issues and refuse to acknowledge your White ancestry. Additionally since part of his biology is White, he IS dating within his race. So suck it and get some therapy. Maybe some White guy will feel sorry for you and ask you out on a date. Probably not, you have too much issues with race.
Ouch.
