Subject: The "Rush is so proud of Tiger" article
Dear Bartcop,
Being a black man in America, I have to
admit that his weak-kneed reply on the Augusta National
Club policy stance didn't sit too well
with me. I really don't like the idea of Rush praising him in public,
while I'll bet he says otherwise when the
microphone is off. The question I have is: Since this has been
going on well before the days of Tiger
Woods, why weren't Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, etc.
put on the spot YEARS ago for the same
question, or am I wrong?
I think you are wrong.
Nicklaus, Player and Palmer all grew up with segregation. Their
parents taught them that blacks were
different and needed to be excluded from "normal society." I
was brought up that way, too. Fortunately,
I have overcome and rejected what my parents told me about race,
sex, religion etc.
The Clash said it best: "You
must not act the way you were brought up."
Sure, it would've been nice of Nicklaus, Player & Palmer stood
up for what's right, but the big changes
came during their lifetime, and they know good friends who are
still violently anti-black. I don't like it
when TV western families like the Cartrights or the Barkley's
were depicted as visionaries who wanted
to give slaves civil rights in the 1870s. It's just been during
our lifetime that blacks were :"forgiven" for
the color of their skin. Nicklaus, Player & Palmer all psychologically
have one foot in the past.
Looks like Augusta still has both feet in the past, but they've
"accepted" blacks to maintain viability.
It's an unfortunate double standard in our
unfair society that most every successful minority is expected
to become a social activist, while successful
members of the majority get to live quietly with a status quo
that they have no reason to change, or
even help change. Only the few true liberal non-minority activitists
will step out front. Those are the people
needed to change all of this.
I say the people with the power need to implement the changes.
Should Tiger catch flak for his remarks?--Yes.
Should changing bad policies rest solely
with him?--No, he's just a golfer.
He's gonna need a lot of help from people
who look like the majority.
Tiger is just a golfer?
That's not only wrong, that's crazy wrong.
Tiger IS golf.
Every word of golf is centered around Mr. Perfect Tiger Woods.
The cameras cut away from a tying putt to catch Tiger lacing
his damn shoes.
Tiger is more golf than Nicklaus, Player & Palmer combined.
If Tiger wanted to, he could issue this demand: "I
refuse to play another round
until every golf course and golf
club in America accepts blacks and women."
That would cause a media sensation and the golf world would change
overnight, because they
can't afford to lose their money machine. He's already
got his hundred million squirreled away.
It wouldn't even be a gamble for him, but he'd rather have $200
million than do the right thing.
I know that you aren't a fan of Tiger Woods,
but, having to live as a minority is worse than,
and will outlast, any hex for the near
future. We've a long way to the Federation.
Thanks for your attention. Keep swinging
the hammer!
Sincerely,
Cyril Jackson
Bush clan full of black sheep
Excerpt:
President Bush is one tough cookie. He
doesn't take any crap. Listen to his words:
"We aim for a simple, uncompromising position:
Throw the crooks in jail! We will not
rest until the cheats and the chiselers
and the charlatans spend a large part of their lives
behind the bars of a federal prison."
Yep, on June 22, 1990, that was our man,
President George H. W. Bush,
41st president of the United States and
father of our current president.
As luck would have it, none of the cheats
and chiselers and charlatans of the 1990s
federal savings and loan rip-offs spent
a large part of their lives behind bars -- not even
the president's son, Neil, who was one
of those cheats, chiselers and charlatans.
For this, we must blame the Democrats.
Every time the B.F.E.E nominated a crook who needed a
pardon in 1992,
Leahy and the rest of those pink tutus screamed "Yes!
Anyone felon you want, Sir!"
I am soooo ashamed to be in the Democratic party.
The
George W Bush Success Story
A heartwarming tale about baseball, $1.7 billion, and a lot
of swell friends
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
As George W. Bush's wealthy admirers continue
to pack cash into the largest presidential
war chest in American history (at last
count a staggering $58 million). perhaps the time is ripe to
examine how the would-be president became
rich himself--quite rich, in fact, if not by the standards
of H. Ross Perot or Steve Forbes, at least
by the measure of most Americans. Bush, who received
$15 million for his share of the Texas
Rangers franchise, would be the richest Democratic or Republican
nominee since Lyndon Johnson. On the June
1998 day that the baseball team was sold, Bush told reporters,
"When it is all said and done, I will
have made more money than I ever dreamed ..."
"We’re talking about Poppy and Dubya here, not
Abraham and Isaac, but it’s an ancient dilemma
for a faithful son, shadowed by the vagaries
of love, obligation and independence: How to follow
in your father’s footsteps while walking
your own road? How to avoid repeating family history,
when that history is in your bones? Among
American presidents, only John Adams and his son
John Quincy Adams (the Adams clan refrained
from wearing caps emblazoned with “2” and “6”)
have faced a similar quandary. John Quincy
came to office in a disputed election in 1824 and lost his
re-election bid four years later, just
as his father had in 1800. Family patterns can be hard to break."
The spy next door
Excerpt:
"The last thing we want," explained Tom
Ridge, "is Americans spying on Americans."
Who are you going to believe -- Tom Ridge
or your own lying eyes?"
Subject: Augusta is for MEN
Bart. I STRONGLY disagree with your opin that
Agusta Golf Course be open to women.
When did yo loose your testicles??
I still have mine, maybe that's why I'm not afraid of women.
Men have been getting the shaft from women for ages. Look at a divorce case recently??
I have no personal experience with divorce.
Maybe that's why we disagree on how dangerous women are.
Augusta is a private club and last I looked private clubs are LEGAL in this country.
So, how do you feel about private restaurants and private hotels?
How about private cabs, and private busses?
How about private states, where only the "real Americans" can live?
If women wish to have their own club, they would
NOT receive ANY negative publicity in the media at all...
If the NAACP and NOW can exist then an ALL male
County CLiub can exist...
Thanx
Robert Dier
The NAACP and NOW are needed because white men own and control
everything on Earth.
Do you realize you're giving the Rush Limbaugh point of view on this,
right?
another of Bush's cronies, pre-bin Laden
Last night's Law & Order on TNT
A group of "fag-hating, nigger-hating, kike-hating" Republicans
were arrested for murder.
When confronted with the evidence, they didn't deny it.
They were proud of themselves.
"Yeah, I stomped a faggot's face on the curb,"
the young Bush voter said with big smile.
He was 16, and GOP all the way. You see, he'd been taught by
his daddy.
Random Thought:
I wonder if Dennis Miller understands that his career went
into the toilet
when he turned into Bush's biggest, bestest and loudest cheerleader?
Too bad, he was once the funniest white man in America,
but then a blow job outraged him and he turned ditto-monkey.
I tried to warn him, but did he listen?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
He exchanged his credibility for that all-important ditto-dollar,
and you can't be
an edgy stand-up and a whore at the same time, just ask Rosie.
So, now he's left with nothing but his dick in his hands.
Goodbye, Dennis.
Don't
blame Bubba
by Gloria Borger
Excerpt:
"Blaming Clinton is absolutely ridiculous," ex-Treasury
Secretary Bob Rubin told me.
"We all have our faults, and Bill Clinton has
his faults. But money and greed are not among them."
Not only that, he adds, the notion that
the crooked culture of business stemmed from Clinton's
personal moral lapses is silly. "I never
heard anybody in business extrapolate from Bill Clinton's problems."
And if they had, what exactly would they
have said? "Gee, since President Clinton lied about Monica,
I guess I can cash in on these options??
Please.
Leave
my Pledge of Allegiance Alone
by the Angry Liberal
Mail Bag
When President Bush said he would run America
like a CEO, little did we know he meant
like a CEO of Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia
Communications, Arthur Andersen, Bristol-Myers,
Computer Associates, Dynegy, Global Crossing,
Halliburton, ImClone Systems, Merrill Lynch,
Qwest Communications, Tyco International,
and Xerox (list incomplete pending further revelations).
Anyone who is invested in the Federal Thrift
Savings Plan (TSP) Common Stock Index (C) Fund is
invested in these companies because the
C Fund is invested in the Barclays Equity Index and holds
common stocks of all the companies represented
in the S&P 500 Index. These companies are, in part,
responsible for why the TSP Stock Fund
currently sits at a minus 18% and falling for the last 12 months,
turning my 401k into a 201k.
MW
Take
your 'we' and shove it
by
Molly Ivins
Excerpt:
A few days after the 1992 election, Enron
and several other companies began petitioning
the Commodities Futures Trading Commission
for an exemption from regulatory oversight
on energy derivatives contracts. A few
weeks later, lame-duck chairman Wendy Gramm
and one other commissioner (the commission
was short two of its five members) exempted
the energy companies from CFTC's authority.
And Bryce reports in his book that the
companies were exempted even if the contracts
they sold were designed to defraud or
mislead buyers! The then-chairman of the
subcommittee with jurisdiction over the CFTC,
Rep. Glen English, said, "In 18 years in
Congress, this is the most irresponsible decision
I have come across." Give that man the
Cassandra Award.