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[b]Tiger Woods is a good example.  I do recall his white colleagues being concerned that he would elect to have collard greens and fried chicken served when he won the Masters (or whichever tournament it was). [/b]This is the type of thing that your AA friends are referring to when warning you about the painful reality of "feeling white or biracial" but being perceived as black.  Despite his biracial assertions and his clearly Asian mother in attendance at all of his tournaments, Tiger has had to deal with the reality that there are some whites AND blacks who simply do not acknowledge his biracial heritage.  The response from some in the black community is based in the understanding that race is something that cannot be simply proclaimed.  As much as you want to deny or reject it, race is as much about your perception of yourself as it is about others perception of you.  I imagine that biracial children who look wholly one race or the other have a much easier time if they simply embrace their racial appearance than those that are clearly a physical reflection of both their black and white heritage.   It seems to me that the negativity experienced at either the hands of whites or blacks has much to do with the tensions and awful history that exist between these communities.  Do biracial children with one Asian parent and one white parent have the same experiences?  The negativity and generalizations that are being spewed on this thread by some seems to be misdirected at the AA community.  Why? We simply did not create the atmosphere of negative race relations that your child is left to navigate.  The blame for that rest with that proportion of your ancestry that is of the lighter hue.

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Most intelligent people knew at the time (1997) that Fuzzy Zoeller was an idiot for what he said; that comment demonstrated him for what he was.  Nearly 20 years later, it is barely relevant and hardly worth mentioning.  [/quote]

2013 Sergio Garcia made similar nasty racist remarks. And no, Fuzzy's comments were not forgotten as they were repeaed when compared with Sergio's comments.  They worth mentioning by ESPN, CNN, etc. [/quote]

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