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| Yes | 46% | 53 votes | Total: 116 votes | |
| No | 54% | 63 votes |
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I want to start by saying I am a golfer, an African American golfer at that. In my lifetime, (I am only 24 years old), I have experienced hatred and denial on golf courses only ...read more
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Kelley Tilghman should have been fired from her job for saying that about the only way Tiger Wood would lose is if he was a victim of a lynching. The editor of Golf Week Mag...read more
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by Phil Hill
We are all responsible for what we say. We may sometimes utter something which we believe to be totally innocent. But that could then be interpreted as being offensive by someon...read more
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Clearly what was said by Kelly Tilghman was inappropriate, I don't think any sane person will disagree with that. While she did make a public apology for making such insensitiv...read more
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by Travis Casey
Once again, innocent banter becomes an internationally reported, racially motivated hate crime. Personally, I would not have been aware, that what Kelly Tilghman said was a raci...read more
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by Don Frey
America has got to get beyond this ,gotcha, mentality. Of course what Kelly said was insensitive, but she acknowledged her error and apologized. If a person believes that a de...read more
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While blacks were certainly lynched during the bad old days, pre the Civil Rights movement, the term "lynching" is not itself specifically referencing black people. In the wild,...read more
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The debate over The Golf Channel suspending Kelly Tilghman is much ado about nothing. Anyone who has ever played golf with a passion can easily forgive Kelly for her tongue-in-...read more
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Reflect on these comments from Fuzzy Zoeller directed towards Tiger Woods at the Masters Tournament in 1997! If we really need to reflect again. "That little boy is driving w...read more
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by Kai El Zabar
As a African American woman, I thought very meticulously about the subject on the table and I've concluded that we have to be very careful with what is at stake here. Censorship...read more
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