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| Reader Lee Hileman writes that he believes the recent racial controversies in golf have been mainly media generated. (.) |
Reader thinks racism in golf is overblown by media
I thought your story ["GolfWeek's noose cover the latest attempt to prove golf elitest and racist"] showed just how out of touch that you are with the general public. Most of the media, you included, wants to turn every little sentence into some kind of statement on racism. Does racism exist? Yes, but not everything said is racist.
Many people other than blacks were lynched, and it began eons before slavery of blacks in the United States. Lynching was a common method of justice in the old West. If the person has the talent to play on tour, they play.
You, the media, also use examples of Augusta National Golf Club as proof of racism, but you seem to forget that millions of white people can't become members of Augusta National. There are many minorities that play on the different tours but the media seems to want to play the race card anytime there seems to be more white players than others.
Hey, get a clue, minority means fewer than the majority. This is America and Caucasians are the majority! It seems only logical that more whites will play! I guess that if the blacks don't dominate a sport in numbers then it must be racist.
Most of the general public realizes this, but you seem to have your own agenda and to hell with anything bordering on reasonable.
To quote a famous saying, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!"
Lee Hileman
by e-mail
January 23, 2008
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Miss N wrote on: Aug 30, 2008
so you would say that banning people from a course purely based on their RACE is not infact RACIST? wow.....:| americans....so...clever ....(Not).
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big d wrote on: May 10, 2008
i only thought illiterate fools like you would do that
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big d wrote on: May 10, 2008
i retract my bad language towards you david duke, i mean, mr. hileman
i will no longer call you names but post your name on central califonia target sheets in the region instead
btw... did you know how many americans fought racists in WWII and died and got injured...rent band of brothers, dude
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John H wrote on: Feb 25, 2008
Hileman... Now i truly know you are an ignorant person
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Hector Anthony wrote on: Feb 23, 2008
Mr. Hileman tries to come off as a thinking, no nonesense kind of guy. I realize your website gives readers a chance to expound their views, no matter how ludicrous. There was an exclusionary rule (caucasians only) in the PGA during my lifetime. But his statement about many people other than blacks being lynched in the United States eons ago, shows his true bias. He has the nerve to mention in the same breath that lynching was a common method of justice??!! No other race suffered lynching (in the United States)to the extent that blacks did in THIS CENTURY, up until the early 1960s. That wasn't eons ago Mr. Hileman and the majority of those killings had nothing to do with justice! They were just racist murders -- simple and tragic as that!
Hector Anthony
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Michael Branche wrote on: Feb 11, 2008
What do the names Rafe Botts, Pete Brown, Charlie Sifford, Bill Spiller, and Ted Rhodes mean to you? Anything?
Golf has a terrible record in regard to racism in America, especially they had a “Caucasian Only” rule in effect, and in writing in their by-laws until 1961.
In the year 2008, it still is insensitive to joke about race in golf.
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