Well, by now, Kelly Tilghman's learned her lesson regarding making statements that Tiger Woods should be "lynched in a back alley" regarding how to best play against him. She's got a two-week suspension. A perfect punishment. Now, I'm sure she intended no harm and even Woods says she's a friend. But the simple fact is that one has a right to ask why -- of all of the words in the English language -- she had to pick that one. That one!
It's just not good judgement. The meaning of the term is forever linked in America to Black men. The trouble is that the next generation has not been properly educated that using words like that is not appropriate. Lynching is considered a hate crime in America.
Time to wake up.
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