Beat, Don't Cheat

There's something that I have been itching to say for the longest, but because of the controversy between all of my friends during the presidential campaign, I've tried to be neutral about this subject. Now, I've had a burst of my nonchalant mood and I can't hold it in any longer. Most of us have heard one way or another about the Tiger Woods scandal and have commented in secret or on postings or in public vocally. One thing most people keep dancing around concerning this subject is the "race thing." I would never mention it if I hadn't heard this with my own ears and seen on television with my own eyes. Towards the end of the year, ABC Nightline did a survey of the worst behaved celebrities of 2009. Included were the likes of Tiger Woods, the balloon boy, Letterman and Chris Brown. One cheated on his wife, one lied about endangering children, one had sex with many of his staff and the other beat his girlfriend to a pulp. Imagine my horror when the survey came back that Tiger was the worst behaved celebrity who didn't go to jail and Chris was not, the one who is on probation for what he has done. Additionally, Letterman, who did the same thing as Tiger, wasn't even tied. Deciding to place the two black men behaving badly side by side, I thought two things. One, the nation that voted basically is saying that it's ok to beat your girlfriend as long as you don't cheat. Two, over the last few years athletes and celebrities have cheated with women of their own race and there was never any big problem until Tiger crossed that precious line. Most of us can agree we're tired of hearing about it, but it's strange that it gets more airtime than most scandals out there. Historically, we who know the relations of interracial dating have been frowned upon if not violently protested can see that Tiger placed himself in a world of trouble just by marrying woman of another color in the public eye. He was ok, until he got greedy and decided to replicate his sexual preference into secretly dating over a dozen of the same. Remember, this was a national survey, even if this was done tongue in cheek. What is really funny is that I can find video of all of the segments of the awards show on ABC except for that one segment concerning Tiger. That is something to wonder about. Bottom line, are we telling our children that it's ok to beat our black women and it's not ok to cheat with and on white women? I'm just saying, that's what it looks like… Hmmm… What do you think? If you would like to see the youtube version of the celeb misbehaving award, click below: (The segment in question starts at 5:25) http://htxt.it/W4d1