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> With the Tiger Woods scandal reaching its 19th day of 24/7 news
> coverage we thought we might repost this classic Duke commentary from
> 1999 — admin:
>
> Tiger Woods, Race, and Professional Sports
>
> ‘Will you join in me in playing the greatest game of all? There is an
> important position open on my team’
>
> By David Duke
>
> Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament in 1997, his first major
> tournament as a professional, and he broke the low-stroke record in
> doing it. The commentators said that his victory would have a great
> social significance. No one would doubt that practically every Black
> who paid attention to the Masters passionately rooted for Woods. Just
> as it is normal to root for those from their own home town or high
> school in a sports game, it is natural for people to root for those of
> their own race (those that look and act similar to themselves). Many
> Whites also rooted for Woods, but his easy victory also made quite a
> few Whites uneasy. It impacts many racially aware Whites who are
> sports enthusiasts, and will fuel the media-generated dogma that
> Blacks are essentially the same as Whites (and maybe even better). The
> Tiger Woods phenomena affords an important place to examine the
> considerable influence of modern spectator sports on racial attitudes.
>
> White males are more engrossed in spectator sports than probably at
> any time in history. There are many reasons for this, but it probably
> finds its roots in the natural fascination males have with physical
> contests. Whether there is a struggle between men, roosters, dogs, or
> any life form, men simply find any kind of fight irresistible. In the
> tooth and fang world we evolved in, there is no more compelling
> spectacle than the physical contest. It visually brings to life
> millions of genetically imprinted life and death struggles that go
> back to the time of one-celled organisms duke-ing-it-out in the ring
> of a microscopic droplet of water.
>
> When the Romans built the Colosseum, they understood this fascination,
> and they knew the cheap seats would be filled every weekend. However,
> the Roman sports addiction was limited to a game or two a week, and
> only in limited cities of the Empire. In Western Civilization, because
> of satellite and cable TV, the games now never end. Twenty-four hour
> sports broadcasting is here and it is probably, minute-by-minute the
> most profitable genre of broadcasting. Giving male Homo Sapiens 24-
> hour sports is analogous to giving a heroin addict access to all the
> smack he wants — whenever he wants it. A great portion of European and
> American males simply cannot resist spectator sports.
>
> In America it is part of the male maturity and bonding process to have
> a Bud and root for the home team. Countless millions of White men (as
> well as non-Whites) have a sports addiction that finds them sitting on
> the couch for untold hours, swilling alcohol and eating junk food.
> Instead of exercising and becoming strong, engaging in healthy
> competition, struggle, sacrifice, courage and team spirit, they watch
> others exercise and become stronger. Anybody who tells them to put
> down the beer and potato chips, turn off the TV and go lift weights or
> jog, or play racquetball or basketball, or even read a book, would be
> accused of being downright Un-American, or maybe even some sort of
> faggot. Ultimately, the choice we have is to actually live our own
> lives or suffer a twilight existence, living through the victories and
> defeats of others.
> Not only is the spectator sport addiction damaging to the lives of
> millions of young and old White men who waste excessive time and adopt
> unhealthy lifestyles, it wrecks psychological damage of the worst
> sort. When the young Black man sees Black heavyweight boxers routinely
> defeat Whites, or sees Black star running backs such as O.J. Simpson
> be made into idols desired by the most beautiful of White women, it
> affirms Black racial pride and a sense of supremacy and solidarity.
> When young White men see such Black athletic supremacy, it has the
> opposite effect on their spirit. Their sense of racial pride and
> solidarity is weakened. Young Whites tend to emulate and identify with
> athletic stars, and many of them are Blacks such as O.J. (before his
> fall) Michael Jordan, and countless others. The anti-White press makes
> the sports champions appear not only as great athletes, but also as
> great men, which is usually far from the truth. Once more, the racial
> realities are obscured by the media.
>
> In South Africa the media gloated that the difference that allowed the
> turning of their country over to communist savages was the threat that
> South African football teams would be barred from international
> competition unless they approved the referendum. Imagine, the
> destruction of a nation in part so that football fans could watch
> their teams on the “tely” compete internationally. During my race for
> the Governorship of Louisiana, our sports crazy fans were told that
> our universities sports programs would have trouble recruiting if I
> were elected. It pains me to acknowledge that I probably lost some
> votes because some members of our race were more worried about their
> school’s football team than the safety of our own kind from Black
> crime or the racial discrimination practiced against thousands of
> Whites with affirmative action.
>
> The sports addiction manifests itself in grotesque and twisted values.
> When the University of Nebraska suspended a Black football star who
> assaulted and raped White women, the coach and the alumni fought to
> get his playing rights restored. Only a few feeble feminists objected.
> Such actions at Nebraska are not rare in the realm of college sports.
> The truth is that many of the colleges sporting mostly Black football
> and basketball teams have had some sort of scandal which included the
> assault or rape of White women by Black players. Even the enemies of
> our heritage must shake their heads in amazement at seeing many Whites
> who would angrily call for the maximum legal penalties against Blacks
> who assaulted White women, cheering the same such scum on the football
> and basketball arenas of America.
>
> As Blacks became dominant in the biggest spectator sports, many White
> sports enthusiasts have consoled themselves by saying that Blacks are
> better in sports such as basketball, football, and boxing because of
> certain particular physical features, while Whites are better in
> others. It is true that in athletic Whites tend to be stronger while
> athletic Blacks tend to be faster. Whites dominate in power sports
> such as weightlifting, gymnastics and wrestling. In professional
> football itself it is interesting to note how the speed positions such
> as wide receiver and cornerback are almost entirely filled by Blacks,
> while the offensive line which depends essentially on sheer size and
> strength is dominated by Whites. A smattering of Whites are at the
> offensive positions that rely on both strength and speed such as tight
> ends and to a lesser extent fullbacks. An example of the genetic
> differences in speed skills between Whites and blacks is confirmed by
> the fact that all of the 16 finalists in the 100 meter dash at the
> Olympic games were Black. Blacks have this dominance in the dash even
> though on a world-wide basis at least ten times more Whites compete in
> organized track and field. Far from proving racial equality, such
> clear racial differences of athletic ability simply serve as one more
> verification of fundamental differences between the races.
>
> Some Whites have wrongly suggested that Blacks do not have the mental
> ability for certain sports and positions. Intelligence may be a factor
> at the quarterback position, but one must still understand that such
> play is still based on repetition and experience and fundamental
> skills. The quarterback does not have to design the plays or even call
> them, he simply has to have the physical skills necessary to execute
> them. Although there are some times when a quick-thinking quarterback
> will have an advantage over a slower-thinking one, and that probably
> is the reason for the preponderance of successful White quarterbacks
> in an 80% black sport, but I expect that number to remain
> disproportionate, but not so pronounced
>
> Some Whites surmised that blacks did not have the mental poise and
> intelligence to be the best at golf. They looked at the fact that not
> one homegrown Black had ever won a major and that on one hand could be
> counted all the Blacks who ever qualified for the PGA Tour.
>
> Well, it looks like that line of argument will not break par. First,
> sports, are simply not dependent on mental acumen. They are dependent
> on genetics, physical training, and mental conditioning. If a Black
> man has an average intelligence, he can learn how to play the greens
> at Augusta, whether to hit it above or below the hole. He can
> certainly develop the different kinds of shots necessary to master any
> situation. The golfer himself does not even have to think up the shots
> himself as there are many coaches and instructors who can teach any
> non-idiot the range of shots that are possible and the way to play any
> hole, and in the game itself the caddie can also instruct the young
> player the strategy of a particular shot , even during the round
> itself. Genius is not required. What is required is the physical skill
> to execute certain kinds of shots including distance, direction,
> height, spin, etc. on a consistent basis, and that depends solely on
> muscle memory and conditioning.
>
> One could question if Tiger Woods is genetically a genuine Black, as
> he is at least one half Thai, plus his Father is a mixed-race Black.
> But, racial pedigree not withstanding, Tiger had the best of coaching
> and the highest of discipline since he was a toddler, and by playing
> so much competitive golf from an early age– he is both used to winning
> and used to what the sport’s commentators call “pressure.” It is the
> same type of experience and adaptation that athletes such as Michael
> Jordan or Jerry Rice possess, or for that matter a Joe Montana..
> Within a range, I do not believe that handling pressure is a purely
> genetic thing, for it is true that some are disposed to handling
> pressure and others not, but ability to withstand pressure can thrive
> in the low intelligent just as much as the extremely intelligent. In
> fact, the highly intelligent can mess up his play by thinking so much
> that the purity of his play is lost. One can be taught to thrive on
> pressure, or to hate it. Woods handles pressure quite well.
>
> The 6′2″ Woods may well have some innate advantages no doubt. A great
> many successful golfers are quite small in stature. I have always
> thought that the larger golfers had a lot of unlocked potential simply
> because the truth is that few hit the ball proportionately farther
> than the smaller player. When you see someone as diminutive as say,
> Corey Pavin hit the ball almost as far as 6′ 4” players you know that
> if the larger player had Pavin’s technique, with their greater arch
> they could out hit Pavin by a country mile. At 6′ 2″ Woods had the
> best training from practically diaper age, and has fully developed the
> potential of his size. Plus, whether or not it is true for him as an
> individual, Blacks on average have a longer reach (longer arms in
> proportion to height) than Whites. This could give him a longer arc
> and could be partially responsible for his greater distance– his
> greatest golfing asset. Also, it is true that blacks have faster
> twitch muscles than Whites for quick bursts of speed, which may also
> account in part for his clubhead speed and longer distance.
>
> No matter what the reasons, Tiger Woods achievements have been
> considerable for a twenty-one year old. And he ultimately deserves the
> credit for them, as he did what he had to do in his young life to
> achieve what he has. He has worked hard for his goal.
>
> Because of the emphasis many put on sports heroes, Woods ascendancy in
> the golf realm will simply add to myth that most Blacks are just like
> us.
>
> Given a certain set of circumstances, individual Blacks can excel. But
> society is made up of not just individuals, but also of groups. The
> quality of the group as a whole ultimately determines the quality of
> the nation. A number of White men will be suckered in by a wave of
> admiration and emotion for one Black golf player into believing that
> the Black race can fit in and do well among the White race. That is
> simply untrue. Some individual Blacks obviously can. But, as a whole,
> the race cannot. For the mental abilities that go into the making and
> maintaining of a civilization are not the same as the requirements for
> a great golf player. The qualities that account for the advancing and
> maintaining of a scientific and civilized society are simply not the
> same as the qualities to run a 100 meters under 10 seconds or dunk a
> basketball, or for that matter, break the Masters record as a rookie.
> And the fact that only one American Black can qualify for the tour and
> that he may be the best in the game, has no real effect on the innate
> differences that divide the two races into one that builds a
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another that makes Haiti the
> way Haiti is. It’s the difference that puts on the menu a cannibal
> chief’s corpus delicti or a French chef’s Cherry Jubilee!
>
> With the avalanche of equality propaganda, millions who admire Woods
> might pleasantly imagine that an unknown Black young man who wants to
> move into the apartment next door will be like a Tiger Woods. The
> truth is that he is exponentially more likely to be like a Willie
> Horton or a Rodney King. In fact, Tiger Woods in his particular
> achievement is one out of 30 million. The chance for a young Black man
> to be a criminal is one out of two. (fully one-third of young Black
> men at any given moment are in Jail, on probation, or parole in
> America–and that does not count the blacks who have been discharged
> from the criminal justice system or the fact that only a small
> percentage of crimes are solved leaving criminals not apprehended.–
> Washington Post Aug 24 or 26)
>
> Every day there are many more White men and women who get sick and
> tired of the antics of sports stars such as Dennis Rodman or the
> Dallas “criminals” football team. They defect to watching Whiter
> sports such as baseball and progressively, ice hockey, tennis and
> golf. Now the ubiquitous Black face in sports will be seen in golf in
> the image of Tiger Woods, who barring any unforeseen circumstance will
> be likely to be the favorite for at least the next ten years in every
> golf tournament he enters.
>
> Those of you who find that somehow distasteful, and I bet you that
> many of you do, deep down inside. I suggest you change the focus of
> your life from spectator to participant, from high fat foods of the
> couch potato to the health and vigor of playing sports themselves, and
> I suggest you change the order of importance of things in your life.
> The really big game which we are engaged in is the very survival of
> our kind of life on this planet. I don’t begrudge you any leisure
> activity, but I hope you spend the lion’s portion of your free time
> doing something that has real meaning and purpose, something that is
> vitally needed. Fighting for your heritage is something that can make
> you a competitor and champion in the most important contest on earth.
> I ask you to spend your time, your money, your effort, your passion on
> the survival of your race and the passing to your children of the
> life, culture, and freedom that our ancestors bequeathed to us. And,
> there is no more exciting game on earth than this ultimate contest of
> survival and dominance. Whether you like it or not, you are in that
> contest.
>
> I am not condemning every White person who watches a Black dominated
> sporting event to some sort of racial perdition. I might even watch a
> football game once in a while. What I am saying is that all of us need
> to fully understand how the media has conditioned us to make spectator
> sports a bigger part of our life than it probably should be. Once you
> understand the use of black-dominated sports in the battering of our
> racial spirit, I believe that you will act accordingly.
>
> Those who are upset about Tiger Woods, I say to you, why so? Golf is
> just a game. Race, and its reality–is life itself, and it charts the
> heights or the depths to which humanity will soar or plummet.
>
> When Tiger Woods won the Masters by a record score, one CBS
> commentator called it “not only important in the world of golf but
> having tremendous social significance.” He obviously attempted to make
> his Wood’s race significant to promotion of his multiracial world
> view.
>
> He played a great four rounds at the Masters. He may yet turn out to
> be the best golfer of all time up to now. But let’s put it in
> perspective. It’s only a game, a pastime of no real significance in
> comparison to freedom, or invention, or medicine, or philosophy, or
> prosperity, or crime, or poverty, or degeneration, or of evolution.
> Golf can be fun, but it is truly trivial compared to the splitting of
> the atom or the invention of the transistor or the computer, or the
> Genome project. It is insignificant compared to even whether one young
> man dies in war or from cancer or alcoholism, or whether he
> accomplishes feats of genius and vision and daring that will someday
> take us to the stars. Compared to the fate of our race, who wins some
> golf tournament is about as important as a single grain of sand at the
> bottom of the Atlantic.
>
> So you see, if you are a golfer, do not get too upset over a double
> bogy or a three put green. Get upset over your White brother wasting
> his life rooting for some Black who happens to be a great dribbler of
> a basketball, but a really pitiful example of a human being. Get upset
> over the thousands of White women who are raped and murdered by Blacks
> every year in America. Get upset when you see a Black, crack-smoking,
> whore monger as mayor of our nation’s capital, get upset over the
> government–through its current immigration policy–that is making you
> and yours a soon-to-be minority in your own country.
>
> And, don’t take out your frustration by rooting for the ol’ home team
> which looks a lot like a team so far from home it could actually be
> from Kampala, Uganda rather than from Kansas City or Kingsport,
> Tennessee. Take out your frustration by joining with your other
> racially awake brothers in the fight for your rights and your very
> survival in this nation and on the planet. Become a real hero, not a
> spectator of false ones. Be a man, damn it!
>
> Whether or not Tiger Woods wins the next major, the world will still
> spin on its axis the next morning. If, however, we do not win our
> struggle for the survival of our heritage, the troglodytes who shall
> inherit the earth will not know if the world has an axis or even if it
> spins at all.
>
> While Tiger and Greg and Ernie and Nick prepare for the next major,
> you and I will be laying the groundwork for the next millennium. When
> we win the crucial contest our people are engaged in, we will find
> another mountain to climb or planet to walk on. Our genotype will
> survive and enter a new evolutionary stage that will forever change
> the world and some day send us across the universe. This is my vision,
> and I construct my life out of that vision. How about you, will you
> join in me in playing the greatest game of all? There is an important
> position open on my team.
Great insights.
climber