Kelly Tilghman is an anchor on the Golf Channel.
During the second round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, Tilghman and analyst Nick Faldo were discussing possible challengers to Woods when Faldo suggested the players “gang up on Woods”.
“Lynch him in a back alley,” Tilghman said, laughing.
Even though Tilghman and Tiger are friends, and Tiger himself said that he was not offended and he regards the issue closed:
“It was unfortunate,” Woods said Monday in his first public comments since Tilghman was suspended for two weeks. “Kelly and I did speak. There was no ill intent. She regrets saying it. In my eyes, it’s all said and done.”
First of all “lynching” is just a word people.
Are we now to forbid the use of the word lynching forever anytime we are talking about, to, near (or any other preposition) a black person?
But the race hustlers were out on Tiger’s behalf, and Ms. Tilghman as suspended for 2 weeks by the Golf Channel.
Yesterday, at the start of the second round of the Buick Open, Ms. Tilgman issued the following apology:
I’m Kelly Tilghman. It’s an honor to be with you again.
In a recent live broadcast, I used an inappropriate word that was offensive to many. Over the last two weeks I’ve taken the time to reflect and truly understand the impact of what I said. While I did not intend to offend anyone, I understand why those words were hurtful. I am terribly sorry for any hurt that I caused. I would like to express my deepest apologies.
Now that’s how you apologize. All too often — especially when the apologizer is a politician, we are further insulted with the non-apology apology.
You’ve heard it before — that’s where somebody says or does something incredibly stupid or offensive. But instead of apologizing for their actions, they apologize that “you were offended by what I said/did”. In other words, they’re not sorry for what they said, they are merely sorry that you were offended by it.
Ms. Tilghman, on the other hand, owns her fault, per the bolded text above. Now this is how you apologize — take responsibility for what you did, and not just how others reacted to it.
Thats right the speech and thought police are in full effect especially if it a white person saying something. If it is other people of color, they have a mostly free pass. She said this in jest, she was NOT serious. What the hell people? Is it now illegal to say anything that is not in the politically correct book of speech.? Sucks we all live a sanitized box where you have to watch every single thing you say and type. Hell I might be arrested for just writing this, it might offend someone. Oh gosh better say I am sorry right now and plead to be forgiven for still having free thought.
Left by marc on January 27th, 2008 at 9:53 pm