Collins Report

By Suzanne Eovaldi

Hell bent on deconstructing the two bastions of American White maleness, namely the White House and the clubhouse, our pc media have faces fully of eggs now. For our President and our golfer, beloved liberal icons both, have shown us that flying too close to the sun definitely does burn. Our President’s declaration of changing America forever certainly now translates poorly. His knave laden coterie of radicals, tax cheats and felon czars may need rethinking. Tiger’s tale just plain hurts–himself, his wife, his children, his mother, mother-in-law, his used women and his fans.

Bling, babes & Black athletes don’t compute when a young mother cries as the world watches slack jawed. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiative effectively destroyed the Black family by driving the man of the house out into the street. Authors for eons have written well of the male rites of passage by which older men teach young boys how to enter adulthood. After death took Tiger’s father, no other men around him apparently were able to tell him,. “No, you can’t do that.”

Mike Ditka’s thrilling locker thumping and Bobbie Knight’s chair hurling exemplify older guys keeping young guys well in line to perform at peak. Yet, because our media are so pc afraid of offending Black guys, traditional rites of passage have been thwarted.

I’m just asking, “Is it time for Jim McMahon to re-moon the media? And say what you will, that magazine cover shot of Tiger and the President just plain looks funny. The Men of a society always have been the engines driving forward or backward what happens to the group. The President and the golfer just may have been father lacking when they needed the older guy the most. And now we are in a Dreiser style new American tragedy…

From this week’s football star who just didn’t think he had to show up for practice because of the snow, to the antics of Dennis Rodman, we have to wonder what happened? Do our American sports even have a code of conduct now? I was even bothered when his players called Phil Jackson, Phil not Mr. Jackson.

In Hemingway’s “Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” the safari hunter is the code hero teaching Macomber how to hunt, how to have grace under pressure, how to become a man. Leaving an animal to suffer even though you’re just on the hunt for a wall trophy still earns scorn from other males. Making a clean kill is another code rule. A Montana hunting guide spoke with derision of a client who just wanted a kill. The guide told me he only kills to eat. Well, stop and think about that. Why are some of our athletes allowed to operate outside of good sportsmanship, outside of a code of conduct other players must follow? Do we no longer have a code of conduct for our playing fields? Why did our golfing association suspend Fuzzy Zeller but not Tiger Woods?

Suzanne Eovaldi, is a retired Journalism professor living in Port St Lucie Fla.

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