In 1997, I was lucky enough to watch the Masters Golf tournament in person when Tiger Woods destroyed the field by 12 shots. My dad was with me and it was an awesome experience. When Tiger sunk his final

Anyhoo, that wasn’t the point of my comment. My point is that if a businessman is st-o-o-o-pid enough to discount the potential of 70% of the population due to his prejudices, WHY on earth would I EVER want to contribute anything to his bottmline just because legislation forced him to “open” up.

But I still think wholly owned private enterprises may discriminate willy-nilly. They will bear the consequences of their decision to do so.

Put it this way. Would you rather pour your blood, sweat & tears, not to mention loyalty into a private company only to find out when it’s all said and done, the owner is a racist and your merits were only grudgingly acknowledged to meet minimal letter of the law in order to avoid a discrimination lawsuit?

Or would you rather spend it where the owner doesn’t care if you’re a purple martian, as long as you perform. And on top of that is willing to mentor whatever it is that he sees in you.

We’ve come a long ways, Baby. The power of racism to hold down a race here in the US are over, PERIOD.

If you’re a racist, go ahead and proudly wear it on your sleeve. That way I know to avoid you and make sure I withhold my money from your products.

A synomyn for covetousness is equality.

Liberals promote covetousness. By calling covetousness equality they teach people to inordinatly desire things that don’t belong to them. “because I don’t have what you have I don’t want you to have it ” or “because I don’t have what you have you need to give it to me.” This promotes theft and laziness. Ya know like socialism and Communism. Wherever you find yourself be thankful. Don’t compare yourself to your neighbor. Learn to be content. And if your not content with what you have don’t steal from your neighbor. Ask God for help–and start working on what it is you need to do i.e. quit your job, go back to school, build your own golf course, work long hours while your kids go to hell, whatever you need to do! –cause you want to be happy like your neighbor. Fools always think it’s greenier on the other side.

The word “cracker” has become an insult through mutation and the loss of knowledge about its origin. In actuality, as applied to American southerners, “cracker” is derived from the sound made by poor 19th century Florida or Georgia scrub cowboys using long cattle whips. How this mutated into something racial is a complete mystery.

More seriously, discrimination is wrong, however the right of private entities to allow who they want as members is very important to all of us. Burk is attempting to do the same thing to Augusta that university student life departments are trying to do to College Republicans, Baptist Student Unions and other groups they don’t like. College Republicans are being forced to admit Democrats, Baptist Student Unions and other campus Christian organizations are being forced to tolerate lifestyles and agendas that are opposed to their mission and the Bible. Burk and her aligned groups want things their way: they get to tell somebody they cannot exclude while maintaining their right to exclude. No college campus forces College Democrats to admit Republicans, minority student groups to admit whites, GLBT clubs to admit straights. You, theoretically, are not supposed to have it both ways. Unfortunately, if you can lobby enough to be designated a disadvantaged group, you will get the privilege to exclude others and force people to accept yourself. This is essentially PC run amok.

One other thing that Burk doesn’t seem to have a clue about is that people like Hootie don’t like uppity northern types to tell them what to do. If she’d just leave em alone, maybe they would admit women. I doubt that and my toungue is even farther back in my cheek, almost to the point of choking.

The strongest medicine is to withold your dollars from the sponsors of the Masters. That’s the only voice they like to hear.