Earlier during our weekly discussion posts we discussed Tiger Woods and how he deals with his bi-racial background and family. We determined that Tiger has been a role model to many especially minorities that anything is possible regardless of your cultural background. Tiger seemed to have a great reputation and seemed like a great golfer, dad, husband and just generally down to earth. With the recent questions surrounding his late night accident and allegations of infidelity I feel there is a lot of disappointment surrounding this. Because of his great reputation and the fact that he is a minority I think he was held up high so to speak. Now that he has broken some of his more ethical reputation of being the "great guy" will he fall into the stereotypical "bad black guy athlete" category?
Let's face it most black athletes that children look up to are usually in some kind of trouble. From sex scandals, drug addictions, alcohol problems and run ins with law enforcement it seems they are always in the news for some negative thing. Tiger was the exception to this until this point. He was the one who proved that not all black athletes were trouble makers and he was deserving to be a good role model. It is kind of sad. I still think he is a great golfer but my ethical viewing of him has decreased. Hopefully all this will pass and he can still continue to be a positive role model for some and admit what really happened.
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