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I Woke This Morning to Watch the Now-Woke 85th Masters Tournament
While waiting for my soccer games to start this morning, and getting in trouble on social media, I had the Gold Channel turned on in the background to hear coverage of the Masters Tournament preview. I have precious few sports I can watch without being subjected to the by now ever-increasing leftist commentary from the announcers, thereby ruining my viewing experience.
So I was taken aback by this exchange between two of the announcers discussing the progress of the golfer Cameron Champ, who is an American professional golfer. Wikipedia notes that he is of mixed black and white descent, that his father is biracial (black and white) while his mother is white.
This a part of the exchange between the announcers Steve Sands and Damon Hack:
Steve Sands: All right, Damon one of the guys in the field who has had a nice start, especially early on Thursday morning when he went out on the first tee where you were to see Lee Elder and Jack Nicholas and Gary Player get this 85th Masters started, is Cameron Champ.
Damon Hack: I’ll tell you what man, before Bryson DeChambeau changed the way we think about professional golfers, a lot of people tapped Cameron Champ to be this generation’s transcendent player. He’s leading this field in driving distance, for example 333.8 yards, has two wins on his PGA tour resume and in two days anyway, Steve, looks like Cameron Champ is beginning to put things together.
[Cameron Champ short video clip]
Damon Hack: You know Steve, you mentioned Cameron Champ being on that first tee on Thursday to see Lee Elder. With his biracial background, he is asked after every round about race and diversity and even voting laws, and I think he answers every question with aplomb and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as he’s found his voice outside the ropes he continues to find comfort, Steve, inside the ropes.
So if things continue, it now seems that what has ruined all Major League sports will be [insert terrible pun] par for the course in professional gold.
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You’d have thought once Tiger Woods was ascendant this wouldn’t even be a topic in golf.
LOL.
So he’s 3/4 White. but using the old Jim Crow ” one drop” rule he’s Black.
So progressive.
Like every profession sports announcers and athletes have a narrow perspective, and knowledge of their chosen profession. Assuming that a professional athlete has a well informed opinion, and expertise on a wide range of subjects is rather tiresome.
Most professional golfers understand that there are thousands upon thousands of golfers that would love to be professional golfers. Spectators come for the chance to walk the course and watch the match, they do not come, or watch the televised match for a day of political musings that having nothing to do with the game itself.
Hey, there’s a ton of air time to fill in between practice swings.
I wonder how often he was denied a tee time because he looks black?
I wish the guy luck. I sucks to be woke crowd focusing on you. I hope learns to deflect and focus on golf.
You’re right. It’s tough enough being a professional athlete. He doesn’t need all this.
I think he really handles it pretty well.
Good luck, buddy…
Announcer: “You just carded a 71 after a very difficult up and down on the 17th with a green side bunker shot that was planted below Yer feet. What do You think about Women’s voting rights?”
Unbelievable
I wish pro athletes would answer these types of questions with something like, “I’d rather you ask me about my game. That’s why I’m here. I won’t answer political questions.”
Mind you, the correct race-based story, the ethno-national pride play, was staring the schmuck right in the face on the Sunday morning leader board! And what a story it turned out to be. Meanwhile, if we look up the “transformational” player the talking head name-checked, we find DeChambeau had another disappointing Masters week. As for 25 year old Champ, he ended up tied for 26th with a 45 year old Englishman and a 38 year old South African.
Question: Why are Dr. Seuss books racist, but the Masters Golf Tournament not racist?
Actually, golf is racist.
So is everything else.
Pay attention…
Everything will be racist until white people are fully removed from it.
They would never ask again if he began his answer with, “I would first of all like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
He should adopt the sumo wrestler response: I will continue to do the very best sumo I can. That answer is in almost every interview. That’s what I’d say if I were any type of person interviewed regularly.