N OPEN LETTER TO TIGER WOODS
Dear Tiger:
Let me be the first to welcome you to your new found life as a Black man! Now that you have arrived, make yourself real comfortable, because as they say, "Once you go black, YOU NEVER GO BACK!
Now I know you're sitting up in that Florida mansion like, "Damn, why are all of these people who used to always speak so kindly about me and applaud every time I swing a golf club, turning their backs on me?” I've got the answer for you; but first, do me a favor: get up off that Alpaca couch, put down that Gatorade, slide on your Nike house shoes and take a walk up to your bathroom. Once you get there, look into that mirror above the sink and take a really good look at the brownish hew of the skin on that figure you see. In that reflection, if you look long and hard enough, you will find your answer.
Tiger, as I always say on this blog, I do not judge people, because we are all fucked up in a multitude of ways, but I do judge actions (including my own). While the rest of the world is quick to write you off as a villain; a poor husband; a cheater and even possibly a "Nigger" now, I say that I stand in full support of you as a man, and surprisingly, despite your beliefs to the contrary, a Negro brother.
You are surely not the first man in the world to be fucking somebody on the side, and damn sure will not be the last (Shit, I shamefully admit that I have been known over the years to have gotten a little head or ass on the side). Yet, even bigger than your "transgressions" as you put them, is the sin that is your skin.
I remember when you first came out screaming that, "I'm Cablasian (White, Black and Asian)" shit, and I remember how fucking stupid I thought you sounded at the time, and how much I wanted to slap the shit out of you. You have often reminded me of Uncle Ruckus on the TV show, The Boondocks, with that denial of your blackness shit. I wasn't mad because you choose to identify all the races from which you descended, because that is commendable, but rather, because of the fact that it really seems like you believe that this gives you some sort of racial ambiguity. We all know that you were raised by a strong black father, and regardless of whatever biracial ancestry you have, I am sure that he shared with you the perils of his life as a black man, and as such, you should have known better.
Yes Tiger, the real issue is not the creeping you did, but rather, the fact that you got TOO FUCKING COMFORTABLE with your "Magic Negro" status. You actually bought into your own corporate marketing hype and thought you could really transcend your skin color. You allowed your inner circle to consist of solely Caucasians, and instead of becoming "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", you really grew to be a House Negro. Shit, does Barack Obama ever look comfortable to you? We witnessed all his hair turn gray in less than a year, just running for the Oval Office. If the Black President can't chill for a second, how do you figure you can?
Now that shit has hit the fan, where the fuck are the majority of your white comrades? Busy consoling your wife (which I don't mean to infer for a second that she doesn't deserve); their Caucasian counterpart. Your homie and fellow (white) golfer, Jesper Parnevik, introduced you to your wife, but now says he didn't know that "you were that type of guy (what the fuck does that mean?)" Where is your ace-boon-coon Roger Federer right now? Trying to keep his ass as far away from you as possible, before his Gillette deal is in jeopardy too.
What's also sad is that it seems like you don't even pay attention to history. Kobe Bryant (Black man) gets accused of rape by a white woman, and he has to go on TV and shave his face clean to look less "intimidating" and cry one of those single tears like Denzel in Glory, then spend half the season flying across the country in G-4s from legal courts to basketball courts. However, Ben Roethlisberger (white man) gets accused of rape by a white woman and he isn't even late for practice once. David Letterman (white man) gets EXTORTED by some dude because he was fucking multiple women during his marriage, and he cracks some jokes and the shit blows over, and then you (black man) fuck some broads on the side and he is doing his opening monologue making fun of YOU.
The WORST part of it all? The chicks you was smashing out ain't even POPPIN'!!! These is some REAL EXTRA SO-SO broads at best, and you are about to GIVE UP HALF for them? Of course, NOT A DROP OF COLOR IN ANY OF THEM. It’s crazy too, because in looking at some of these texts, it appears that you were dead-ass in love with these chicks too, some of which were even PORNO STARS! How do you have a WIFE and a CHILD at home, and lying down with CAREER COCKSUCKERS?
In fact, you were so far gone with this shit, that you even let one of the chicks, Jaimee Grubbs, gas you up about how you are her "FIRST, LAST, AND ONLY BLACK GUY" and as such, "U SHOULD FEEL SPECIAL", as if this broad is some sort of White Cracker Jack prize or some shit. While it disgusts me that this ignorance didn't even bother you in the least, it was only made worse by your comical response: some stupid-ass comment about being "Bone Thugs in Harmony" (Like, what the fuck are you talking about)?
Now, after the dust settles and you see just how little White America REALLY loves your ass, you are gonna be left with us good old Negroes. One great thing about us as Blacks though, is that we forgive a lot of shit (Michael Jackson and R. Kelly are PEDOPHILES and yet keep iconic status). So while I would not be surprised to see you begin to make a couple of obligatory appearances at black events like the BET AWARDS, or maybe the NAACP Image Awards, I truly hope you wake the fuck up and come to grips with the fact that you are just like the rest of us Negroes, chinky eyes and all.
When all of this shit eventually blows over (and it will), remember the way you feel right now, cooped up in that kitchen like a project drug dealer, with the world casting you as the "typical black man" and don't ever think for a second think you are fully accepted by Caucasians - EVER. This isn't saying that all white people or any whole group of people is completely bad, but what I am saying is that you are not down by blood brother, just relation.
As I watch all of this tomfoolery unfold, I just ask myself, "Why?" Is it stupidity? Is it naïveté? I and everyone else who watches surely don't have an answer.
Then again, as you told your mistress Jaimee, maybe it’s just because you're "BLASIAN :) (Why the smiley face though?)"
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Going the E-way and Yaw Amankwa's own-goal
Going the E-way may be the only way, but…
A few weeks ago, when Yaw Amankwa, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party until last Monday granted an interview to the Chronicle there were many people, including myself, he commented that he should have come public like he did.
His problem was that Nana Akufo-Addo had addressed a meeting of selected constituency chairpersons in the region and allegedly told them that they should vote for F F Antoh as regional chairman and Jake Obestebi-Lamptey as national chairman.
Yaw Amankwa said that showed Akufo-Addo as a divisionist and not a unifier. Amoako Tuffuor, in whose house that meeting was held, responded by calling the regional chairman then as a ‘hypocrite,’ if not a diversionist.
There were many, including sympathisers of Akufo-Addo who were worried about the development. Mustapha Hamid and others were compelled to go out there and say such strategic meetings were normal in party politics. Competitive politics call for strategic meetings and consultations and secretly sharing views with like minded people, and on and on the explanations went.
My comments were that what was news about it was the fact that it had been made news at all - by the decision to disclose the meeting. It was probably a political calculation to win sympathy and to hurt one camp in this NPP turf war. But was it wise?
What Yaw Amankwa’s interview did was to tell the whole country that yes, Nana Akufo-Addo, was supporting other candidates for the regional and national chairmanship positions. So, who then were supporting the others? People the n drew conclusions or were helped to do just that.
Even before the polls were cast in Kumasi, the news out there was that Alan Kyeremanten was behind Yaw Amankwa and Nana behind Antoh.
Thus, by Tuesday, the real damage from Amankwa’s decision to go public was clear for all to see. Rather than giving credit for the victories to the individual candidates, the news was all about who between Alan and Nana won. Alan has suffered an unnecessary amount of collateral damage from what Amankwa did. But, it is far from fatal. A week can be a long time in politics if you have sustaining power.
That is why it is important to keep certain things away from the public in politics even if the itch to go public is excruciating.
But let me go to a programme that must be so dear to us all.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Danquah Institute, with support from others, will hold a 2-day seminar on the introduction of election automation technology to Ghana.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alecs Agobo, in February 2009, at an EC-sponsored programme, called for ways of empowering security personnel deployed at polling stations to enable them enforce the right process at those stations.
He alleged multiple voting on the islands in the Afram Plains under the watch of a duty security man, who he said was helpless because he was alone and threatened not to intervene, else he would be drowned in the Volta Lake.
Mr Julius Debrah, Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), went even further. He called for the introduction of electronic voting system in the country to help avoid the issue of double registration.
Our conference next week is part of the responses to these issues. We aim to interrogate the viability of Electronic Voting and the challenges and advantages of a biometric voter register in Ghana for the 2012 general elections and beyond. It will be the first of Danquah Institute’s Annual Governance & Development Dialogue Series and the only national platform so far devoted to this important topic.
The two-day conference takes place at the Alisa Hotels, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana, on Feb 8-9, 2010. The first day will be devoted to Biometric Voter Registration; with Day 2 probing the question whether or not e-voting could work in Ghana and if so which model(s) would suit our environment.
While, the Electoral Commission has began with work on the processes leading to a compilation of a new voter register using biometric technology, “We fear that challenges with time, logistics, funds and unresolved issues about cross-sector coordination may still frustrate the implementation process”, observes Prof Yaw Twumasi, a member of the governing board of the Danquah Institute. The conference would offer a common public platform for the various stakeholders, including the voting public, to consider all these issues.
The conference will be chaired by Prof Ken Attafuah.
The fundamental question to be addressed at the seminar is how to protect the integrity of Ghana's future elections from the point of voter registration to the moment of winner certification?
The Danquah Institute believes that as a nation, we cannot dismiss without the benefit of a full domestic enquiry the viability of electronic voting and if we are to do so then it has to be now in order to allow the nation the time and space to make the necessary preparation for future elections.
Experiences elsewhere, from Asia to the Americas, have shown that countries take the e-voting way by first undertaking a pilot project at the local authority elections level. The conference will explore this option, along with its related costs and acceptability matters.
Ghanaians witnessed how the 2008 general elections got nearly marred by a bloated voter register which helped to fuel charges of vote rigging and increased opportunities for electoral violence and vote rigging.
For Ghana, the introduction of election automated technology could be the defence weapon against, not only systemic electoral fraud, but also the explosion of electoral violence in the future, which, if not checked, could ultimately deal a fatal blow to the entire democratic experiment here in Ghana and with serious continental consequences.
This programme is being supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the World Bank, with additional sponsorship from our media partners. If you want to attend please contact Nana Attobrah on 0244928999.
A few weeks ago, when Yaw Amankwa, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party until last Monday granted an interview to the Chronicle there were many people, including myself, he commented that he should have come public like he did.
His problem was that Nana Akufo-Addo had addressed a meeting of selected constituency chairpersons in the region and allegedly told them that they should vote for F F Antoh as regional chairman and Jake Obestebi-Lamptey as national chairman.
Yaw Amankwa said that showed Akufo-Addo as a divisionist and not a unifier. Amoako Tuffuor, in whose house that meeting was held, responded by calling the regional chairman then as a ‘hypocrite,’ if not a diversionist.
There were many, including sympathisers of Akufo-Addo who were worried about the development. Mustapha Hamid and others were compelled to go out there and say such strategic meetings were normal in party politics. Competitive politics call for strategic meetings and consultations and secretly sharing views with like minded people, and on and on the explanations went.
My comments were that what was news about it was the fact that it had been made news at all - by the decision to disclose the meeting. It was probably a political calculation to win sympathy and to hurt one camp in this NPP turf war. But was it wise?
What Yaw Amankwa’s interview did was to tell the whole country that yes, Nana Akufo-Addo, was supporting other candidates for the regional and national chairmanship positions. So, who then were supporting the others? People the n drew conclusions or were helped to do just that.
Even before the polls were cast in Kumasi, the news out there was that Alan Kyeremanten was behind Yaw Amankwa and Nana behind Antoh.
Thus, by Tuesday, the real damage from Amankwa’s decision to go public was clear for all to see. Rather than giving credit for the victories to the individual candidates, the news was all about who between Alan and Nana won. Alan has suffered an unnecessary amount of collateral damage from what Amankwa did. But, it is far from fatal. A week can be a long time in politics if you have sustaining power.
That is why it is important to keep certain things away from the public in politics even if the itch to go public is excruciating.
But let me go to a programme that must be so dear to us all.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Danquah Institute, with support from others, will hold a 2-day seminar on the introduction of election automation technology to Ghana.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alecs Agobo, in February 2009, at an EC-sponsored programme, called for ways of empowering security personnel deployed at polling stations to enable them enforce the right process at those stations.
He alleged multiple voting on the islands in the Afram Plains under the watch of a duty security man, who he said was helpless because he was alone and threatened not to intervene, else he would be drowned in the Volta Lake.
Mr Julius Debrah, Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), went even further. He called for the introduction of electronic voting system in the country to help avoid the issue of double registration.
Our conference next week is part of the responses to these issues. We aim to interrogate the viability of Electronic Voting and the challenges and advantages of a biometric voter register in Ghana for the 2012 general elections and beyond. It will be the first of Danquah Institute’s Annual Governance & Development Dialogue Series and the only national platform so far devoted to this important topic.
The two-day conference takes place at the Alisa Hotels, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana, on Feb 8-9, 2010. The first day will be devoted to Biometric Voter Registration; with Day 2 probing the question whether or not e-voting could work in Ghana and if so which model(s) would suit our environment.
While, the Electoral Commission has began with work on the processes leading to a compilation of a new voter register using biometric technology, “We fear that challenges with time, logistics, funds and unresolved issues about cross-sector coordination may still frustrate the implementation process”, observes Prof Yaw Twumasi, a member of the governing board of the Danquah Institute. The conference would offer a common public platform for the various stakeholders, including the voting public, to consider all these issues.
The conference will be chaired by Prof Ken Attafuah.
The fundamental question to be addressed at the seminar is how to protect the integrity of Ghana's future elections from the point of voter registration to the moment of winner certification?
The Danquah Institute believes that as a nation, we cannot dismiss without the benefit of a full domestic enquiry the viability of electronic voting and if we are to do so then it has to be now in order to allow the nation the time and space to make the necessary preparation for future elections.
Experiences elsewhere, from Asia to the Americas, have shown that countries take the e-voting way by first undertaking a pilot project at the local authority elections level. The conference will explore this option, along with its related costs and acceptability matters.
Ghanaians witnessed how the 2008 general elections got nearly marred by a bloated voter register which helped to fuel charges of vote rigging and increased opportunities for electoral violence and vote rigging.
For Ghana, the introduction of election automated technology could be the defence weapon against, not only systemic electoral fraud, but also the explosion of electoral violence in the future, which, if not checked, could ultimately deal a fatal blow to the entire democratic experiment here in Ghana and with serious continental consequences.
This programme is being supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the World Bank, with additional sponsorship from our media partners. If you want to attend please contact Nana Attobrah on 0244928999.
Yaw Amankwa, going the E-way
5 Feb 2010
A few weeks ago, when Yaw Amankwa, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party until last Monday granted an interview to the Chronicle there were many people, including myself, he commented that he should have come public like he did.
His problem was that Nana Akufo-Addo had addressed a meeting of selected constituency chairpersons in the region and allegedly told them that they should vote for F F Antoh as regional chairman and Jake Obestebi-Lamptey as national chairman.
Yaw Amankwa said that showed Akufo-Addo as a divisionist and not a unifier. Amoako Tuffuor, in whose house that meeting was held, responded by calling the regional chairman then as a ‘hypocrite,’ if not a diversionist.
There were many, including sympathisers of Akufo-Addo who were worried about the development. Mustapha Hamid and others were compelled to go out there and say such strategic meetings were normal in party politics. Competitive politics call for strategic meetings and consultations and secretly sharing views with like minded people, and on and on the explanations went.
My comments were that what was news about it was the fact that it had been made news at all - by the decision to disclose the meeting. It was probably a political calculation to win sympathy and to hurt one camp in this NPP turf war. But was it wise?
What Yaw Amankwa’s interview did was to tell the whole country that yes, Nana Akufo-Addo, was supporting other candidates for the regional and national chairmanship positions. So, who then were supporting the others? People the n drew conclusions or were helped to do just that.
Even before the polls were cast in Kumasi, the news out there was that Alan Kyeremanten was behind Yaw Amankwa and Nana behind Antoh.
Thus, by Tuesday, the real damage from Amankwa’s decision to go public was clear for all to see. Rather than giving credit for the victories to the individual candidates, the news was all about who between Alan and Nana won. Alan has suffered an unnecessary amount of collateral damage from what Amankwa did. But, it is far from fatal. A week can be a long time in politics if you have sustaining power.
That is why it is important to keep certain things away from the public in politics even if the itch to go public is excruciating.
But let me go to a programme that must be so dear to us all.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Danquah Institute, with support from others, will hold a 2-day seminar on the introduction of election automation technology to Ghana.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alecs Agobo, in February 2009, at an EC-sponsored programme, called for ways of empowering security personnel deployed at polling stations to enable them enforce the right process at those stations.
He alleged multiple voting on the islands in the Afram Plains under the watch of a duty security man, who he said was helpless because he was alone and threatened not to intervene, else he would be drowned in the Volta Lake.
Mr Julius Debrah, Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), went even further. He called for the introduction of electronic voting system in the country to help avoid the issue of double registration.
Our conference next week is part of the responses to these issues. We aim to interrogate the viability of Electronic Voting and the challenges and advantages of a biometric voter register in Ghana for the 2012 general elections and beyond. It will be the first of Danquah Institute’s Annual Governance & Development Dialogue Series and the only national platform so far devoted to this important topic.
The two-day conference takes place at the Alisa Hotels, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana, on Feb 8-9, 2010. The first day will be devoted to Biometric Voter Registration; with Day 2 probing the question whether or not e-voting could work in Ghana and if so which model(s) would suit our environment.
While, the Electoral Commission has began with work on the processes leading to a compilation of a new voter register using biometric technology, “We fear that challenges with time, logistics, funds and unresolved issues about cross-sector coordination may still frustrate the implementation process”, observes Prof Yaw Twumasi, a member of the governing board of the Danquah Institute. The conference would offer a common public platform for the various stakeholders, including the voting public, to consider all these issues.
The conference will be chaired by Prof Ken Attafuah.
The fundamental question to be addressed at the seminar is how to protect the integrity of Ghana's future elections from the point of voter registration to the moment of winner certification?
The Danquah Institute believes that as a nation, we cannot dismiss without the benefit of a full domestic enquiry the viability of electronic voting and if we are to do so then it has to be now in order to allow the nation the time and space to make the necessary preparation for future elections.
Experiences elsewhere, from Asia to the Americas, have shown that countries take the e-voting way by first undertaking a pilot project at the local authority elections level. The conference will explore this option, along with its related costs and acceptability matters.
Ghanaians witnessed how the 2008 general elections got nearly marred by a bloated voter register which helped to fuel charges of vote rigging and increased opportunities for electoral violence and vote rigging.
For Ghana, the introduction of election automated technology could be the defence weapon against, not only systemic electoral fraud, but also the explosion of electoral violence in the future, which, if not checked, could ultimately deal a fatal blow to the entire democratic experiment here in Ghana and with serious continental consequences.
This programme is being supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the World Bank, with additional sponsorship from our media partners. If you want to attend please contact Nana Attobrah on 0244928999.
A few weeks ago, when Yaw Amankwa, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party until last Monday granted an interview to the Chronicle there were many people, including myself, he commented that he should have come public like he did.
His problem was that Nana Akufo-Addo had addressed a meeting of selected constituency chairpersons in the region and allegedly told them that they should vote for F F Antoh as regional chairman and Jake Obestebi-Lamptey as national chairman.
Yaw Amankwa said that showed Akufo-Addo as a divisionist and not a unifier. Amoako Tuffuor, in whose house that meeting was held, responded by calling the regional chairman then as a ‘hypocrite,’ if not a diversionist.
There were many, including sympathisers of Akufo-Addo who were worried about the development. Mustapha Hamid and others were compelled to go out there and say such strategic meetings were normal in party politics. Competitive politics call for strategic meetings and consultations and secretly sharing views with like minded people, and on and on the explanations went.
My comments were that what was news about it was the fact that it had been made news at all - by the decision to disclose the meeting. It was probably a political calculation to win sympathy and to hurt one camp in this NPP turf war. But was it wise?
What Yaw Amankwa’s interview did was to tell the whole country that yes, Nana Akufo-Addo, was supporting other candidates for the regional and national chairmanship positions. So, who then were supporting the others? People the n drew conclusions or were helped to do just that.
Even before the polls were cast in Kumasi, the news out there was that Alan Kyeremanten was behind Yaw Amankwa and Nana behind Antoh.
Thus, by Tuesday, the real damage from Amankwa’s decision to go public was clear for all to see. Rather than giving credit for the victories to the individual candidates, the news was all about who between Alan and Nana won. Alan has suffered an unnecessary amount of collateral damage from what Amankwa did. But, it is far from fatal. A week can be a long time in politics if you have sustaining power.
That is why it is important to keep certain things away from the public in politics even if the itch to go public is excruciating.
But let me go to a programme that must be so dear to us all.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Danquah Institute, with support from others, will hold a 2-day seminar on the introduction of election automation technology to Ghana.
The Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Alecs Agobo, in February 2009, at an EC-sponsored programme, called for ways of empowering security personnel deployed at polling stations to enable them enforce the right process at those stations.
He alleged multiple voting on the islands in the Afram Plains under the watch of a duty security man, who he said was helpless because he was alone and threatened not to intervene, else he would be drowned in the Volta Lake.
Mr Julius Debrah, Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), went even further. He called for the introduction of electronic voting system in the country to help avoid the issue of double registration.
Our conference next week is part of the responses to these issues. We aim to interrogate the viability of Electronic Voting and the challenges and advantages of a biometric voter register in Ghana for the 2012 general elections and beyond. It will be the first of Danquah Institute’s Annual Governance & Development Dialogue Series and the only national platform so far devoted to this important topic.
The two-day conference takes place at the Alisa Hotels, North Ridge, Accra, Ghana, on Feb 8-9, 2010. The first day will be devoted to Biometric Voter Registration; with Day 2 probing the question whether or not e-voting could work in Ghana and if so which model(s) would suit our environment.
While, the Electoral Commission has began with work on the processes leading to a compilation of a new voter register using biometric technology, “We fear that challenges with time, logistics, funds and unresolved issues about cross-sector coordination may still frustrate the implementation process”, observes Prof Yaw Twumasi, a member of the governing board of the Danquah Institute. The conference would offer a common public platform for the various stakeholders, including the voting public, to consider all these issues.
The conference will be chaired by Prof Ken Attafuah.
The fundamental question to be addressed at the seminar is how to protect the integrity of Ghana's future elections from the point of voter registration to the moment of winner certification?
The Danquah Institute believes that as a nation, we cannot dismiss without the benefit of a full domestic enquiry the viability of electronic voting and if we are to do so then it has to be now in order to allow the nation the time and space to make the necessary preparation for future elections.
Experiences elsewhere, from Asia to the Americas, have shown that countries take the e-voting way by first undertaking a pilot project at the local authority elections level. The conference will explore this option, along with its related costs and acceptability matters.
Ghanaians witnessed how the 2008 general elections got nearly marred by a bloated voter register which helped to fuel charges of vote rigging and increased opportunities for electoral violence and vote rigging.
For Ghana, the introduction of election automated technology could be the defence weapon against, not only systemic electoral fraud, but also the explosion of electoral violence in the future, which, if not checked, could ultimately deal a fatal blow to the entire democratic experiment here in Ghana and with serious continental consequences.
This programme is being supported by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the World Bank, with additional sponsorship from our media partners. If you want to attend please contact Nana Attobrah on 0244928999.
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