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Dec. 8, 2009 The View From My Window VI: GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL: Regardless of what went on between Tiger Woods and his wife Elin, he is fair game for the tabloids, which is another tragedy. I have heard newscasters and show hoists talk about how “disappointed” they were by Tiger’s alleged affair and how we all thought he was “[erfect.” That’s a bunch of bull. Tiger only did what half the men in America have professed to have done: He is a young man who chased a piece of tail on the side. As Chris Farley might say, Whoop dee frickin doo. This doesn’t make him “right”—not by a longshot, but it shouldn’t be a big thing (no pun intended). Why is it that so many people live vicariously through the private lives of celebrities? What Tiger did is his business and I can’t for the life of me figure out why this is considered “newsworthy.” I don’t care where Tiger or any other celebrity “practices their putting.” He’s young and he will be prone to mistakes. People—not just celebrities and athletes—fool around all the time. It’s harder to keep your putter in the bag than one might think. In fact, it happens so often until it should no longer be a matter of concern. If Presidents can do it, then why should we be fascinated by the peccadilloes of one who is held to a lesser standard? Our mistake is easily understood—we place these people on a pedestal and fail to realize the only thing separating them from us is their fame and money. Other than that, their schmoes just like everyone else. Golfer Jesper Parnevik and his wife ontroduced Tiger and wife to be Elin Nordegren. Now Parnevik is adding his two cents—which is abiout what he’s earned oin the tour—and is quoted as saying: “I would probably need to apologize to her and hope she uses a driver next time instead of the 3-iron." Jasper sounds like he’s taken a golf ball or two to the cranium. If his sponsros don’t defect, and there’s no evidence that they will, then Americans will be quick to forgive. Remember Ray Lewis and Kobe Bryant? Uh-huh, I thought you did. My message is simple: Stop hating, mind your own business and worry about your own damn life. 18 & OVER: President Obama is being criticized for having an “artificial timeline” for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan . I see this as a departure from the bush administration, that was willing to fight a war with no clear goal or end in sight. Obama’s \“s—t or get off the pot” policy is a start to the withdrawal of troops. July 2011 will mark nearly ten years since our venture into Afghanistan . This is a war Obama inherited; not one he started. John “the colorectal pain” McCain, as he said during the campaign, would be willing to keep us there 199 years. Face it, how can we fight such an expensive war while neglecting our business here at home? We should concern ourselves with what’s happening here. Leave the fighting there to the Afghanis and a NATO consortium. The fact of the matter is that PNAC’s war plan was an abysmal failure… IT DOESM’T MATTER IF YOU’RE BLACK OR WHITE…OR DOES IT?: It worked for Michael Jackson, but so far it has been an abject failure for Sammy Sosa. You mean you don’t know what I’m referring to? I’m talking of a black man undergoing a procedure that turns him into a white man. Reverse John Howard Griffinism. ITp see this transformation, go to: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977899433&grpId=3659174697244816&nav=Groupspace Back in the 40’s, black professor Dr. Kenneth Clarke did a test color preference test using dolls. His biography in Wikipedia states: “They published three major papers between 1939 and 1940 on children's self perception related to race. Their studies found contrasts among children attending segregated schools in Washington , DC versus those in integrated schools in New York . They found that Black children often preferred to play with white dolls over black; that, asked to fill in a human figure with the color of their own skin, they frequently chose a lighter shade than was accurate; and that the children gave the color "white" attributes such as good and pretty, but "black" was qualified as bad and ugly.” Seems that some “kids” never outgrow this mixed up manner of self-perception. Also, check out the Kiri Davis video that elaborates on this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0BxFRu_SOw) BLINDED BY DEVICE: There are divergent feelings on the movies Precious and The Blind Side. One is pure fiction (Precious), the other based on the “true” story of Baltimore Ravens’ offensive lineman Michael Oher. While the former is brutal in its depiction of an obese black teen with two children—including one by her father, the latter is supposedly “the feel good movie of the season.” I ask, “What is there to feel good about?” Precious is a worn-out cliché on the brutality and dysfunction of blacks, as if we have cornered the market on such hurtful behavior. The other is also a time-worn stereotype, of the poor black man who needs the paternalistic concern of whites to right himself. Yes, some might argue that it shows kindness and humanitarianism, but by who—the white family of course. The black person is merely an oversized brute who lacks “refinement” and the ability to find himself. Critic Armond White wrote that Precious was “"Full of brazenly racist cliches [Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken], it is a sociological horror show.” He called it more racist than D.W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation. (Luchina Fisher, ABC News, Why Some Blacks Prefer ‘Blind Side’ to ‘Precious.’ ) Oddly enough, while The Blind Side obliterates Precious most other movies at the box-office, it is the latter film that is getting most of the Oscar buzz. Both Mo’Nique and the film’s star, Gabourey Sidibe, have been mentioned as Best Actress nominees. Many blacks, however, are embracing The Blind Side and dismissing Precious because of it serious and sensitive issues. I knew that Precious would have this effect, as several women in the writer’s groups I belong to said that reading the book was emotionally taxing and they were unsure that they could watch what was written in the novel by Sapphire translated visually to the big screen. Second, Precious is produced by Oprah Winfrey, who has made a career out of bringing us life’s miseries close-up, and also in on the fun was the Master of Melodrama, Tyler Perry. When we see movies about White Dysfunction, it is usually in a comedic vein, which is subsequently perceived as the exception rather than the rule. Movies like The Ref, Little Miss Sunshine, Second Hand Lions and The Royal Tannenbaums come to mind. Black cinema--most of which is greenlighted by white males who’ve never set foot anywhere near a black neighborhood—is commonly laden with violent, decadent imagery. I say skip both of these films. When I watch b.s., I choose not to pay for it, which is why I keep my TV tuned to C-Span. NOTE: I am preparing for the Spring release of two new books: Human Trial II: Adam’s War —the sequel to my 2009 novel, Human Trial; and a book comprised of two novellas, titled Once Upon A Time There Were Two Hood Rats… The latter contains a guns and gangsters saga, while the second tale is of love going horribly wrong. I’ll keep you-all tuned… ------------ About the author: Timothy N. Stelly is a poet, essayist, novelist and screenwriter from northern California. His novel, HUMAN TRIAL, is the first part of a sci-fi trilogy and is available from Amazon.com, allthingsthatmatterpress.com and in e-book format at mobipocket.com. Visit me at: http://www.myspace.com/pittwit website: http://stellbreadO@tripod.com Email: stellbread@yahoo.com 
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