Golf Week Firing.....Thought Police?

What Golf Magazine did was not only in poor taste, but stupid as well.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VHapMnqSeR8

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr

what is to be remembered in the past. The word may be a touchy-feely word to some, but it is very much on the minds of others, but with a different meaning. And much has to do with our recent past attitudes and actions. Many people offended today, lived out and are still living out the insensitivity. Racism continues to be alive and well in America. The word, lynching used by Tilghman was not intended to be hurtful. It did not bother Tiger most of all, and did not bother me as well.  It was just made. However the rope/noose picture place on the front cover of Golf Week, was meant to bring together Tilghmans comment and the lynching of Blacks in our recent past. It was a hurtful comment. The recent rope/noose incidents, in our schools, front lawns of people's homes, placed at will around main streets of some American city's, are meant to serve as a reminder of hurt in the past. And these incidents as well as the picture in Golf Week magazine carry a hurtful, totally insensitive and demeaning message. We American need to collectively denounce all acts such as this. And Peaser, I know you have received training in this area as a Police Officer, charged with the responsibility to represent all people, regardless of color or cultural characteristics. If I were charged with the responsibility of running Golf Week magazine, I would have fired the individuals also. The manner in which they portrayed the incident  was in very poor taste and totally wrong. Quite frankly, I am surprised you do not see it that way.

There are many classes offered in our school system today that teach cultural awareness and just basis common sense, when it comes to assimilating people of different color and social backgrounds together. I would recommend you take advantage of what our educational system has to offer. Many times total ignorance and closed mindedness form the foundation for peoples irrational thinking.

Here is a glimpse of what "whitey" would like to forget about, but the damage still lays all over America. Insensitivity is demonstrated by throwing these types of horrible behaviors backup into the face of others as a reminder of dominance and control and a general lack of appreciation and value for others as a fellow human being.

It is my hope that the brief writing of facts and picture will inspire you to look at the area of sensitivity in a different light and then hopefully that would open doors for you, to a more compassionate attitude in this area.

Lynchings were a big, staged event and covered in local newspapers with headlines spelling out the horrific details. Photos of victims, with exultant white observers posed next to them, were taken for distribution in newspapers or on postcards. Body parts, including genitalia, were sometimes distributed to spectators or put on public display. Most infractions were for petty crimes, like theft, but the biggest one of all was looking at or associating with white women.  In the South, an estimated two or three blacks were lynched each week, for a total of about 5,000 lynchings. And these are only the documented lynchings. Pretty bad behavior on "whiteys" part, huh." And how this could ever be defended as appropriate, is beyond me.

source:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

whites not all. Those people in that picture will have to answer for their sins. And who said anything about forgetting the past? I will continue to use the word lynching and others when needed. Their is no law..yet.. about being protected from being offended. Some use the offended card as a way to make themselves feel better. Not me.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr

selfishness and insensitivity of their fellow man. Lynching and other demeaning words are never needed. So don't use the words around me, thank you. Everyone should show some respect and honor others boundaries.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr

Feb 12, 2008 WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation.

"The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history," Bush said in an event marking African-American history month at the White house.

"The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice," the president said. "Displaying one is not a harmless prank, and lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest."

As a civil society, Americans should agree that noose displays and lynching jokes are "deeply offensive," Bush said.

"They are wrong. And they have no place in America today."

For decades, the noose was a symbolic part of a campaign of violence, fear and intimidation against blacks, the president said. Sometimes, he added, it was orchestrated by the law enforcement officers charged with protecting them. Bush also said the noose was a tool for intimidation and killing that conveyed a sense of powerlessness to millions of blacks throughout the country.

"Fathers were dragged from their homes in the dark of night before the eyes of their terrified children," he said. "Summary executions were held by torchlight in front of hateful crowds. In many cases, law enforcement officers responsible for protecting the victims were complicit in their deaths."

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

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Sorry, I refuse to let anyone create a list of words or symbols that some may find offensive. There ain't no constitutional right not to be offended. Sharpton and Jackson and Ferrycon do it all the time and since they are not white it is allowed. And that is ok with me.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr

to Keyes and see what he thinks about it. What do you think he would say about his poster being on say your front lawn along with a black mannequin leaning on a tree with a noose around his/her neck. Did you disclose these attitudes to him when you applied to be included in his campaign?

You're really a funny dude Jh?

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every educated person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
       - Governor Kathleen Blanco

It is a free speech comment and has nothing to do with race. Almost everything imaginable can be offensive to someone!

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr