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...after surgery for an abdominal infection; in Boston. Wyman, a former Polaroid and Pillsbury executive who rose to the top of CBS before being ousted by founder William Paley in 1986 for allegedly suggesting that the network be sold to Coca-Cola, recently made news when he quit the Augusta National Golf Club to protest its males-only membership policy...
...implying that only a Magic Negro could be expected to wave his putter like a magic wand and singlehandedly settle the bitter quarrel between two entrenched camps. The people drafting Woods seem to feel that he has a special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes him especially sensitive to all forms of oppression. That's where the Magic Negro angle comes in: Woods is being asked to solve a problem that most blacks don't give a hoot about just because some powerful white people care deeply about it. They...
...that the reformers are wrong about Augusta. It's clear that the place is a bastion of Southern-fried phony gentility that badly needs reform. Augusta did not accept its first black member until 1990, after an outcry about the whites-only membership of many country clubs compelled the major pro-golf association to promise that no tournament would be played at courses that practice racial discrimination...
...should cleaning up Augusta really be solely a black man's burden? Woods seems to understand that his superstar status requires him to speak up about discrimination whenever he can. He has tried to put himself on the right side of the Augusta issue by saying he favors admitting female members to the club "because it's the right thing to do," but he declines to boycott the Masters because "it's not the players' fault" that Augusta is sexist. He has not said anything as ludicrous as his buddy Michael Jordan reportedly did in explaining his refusal to support...
...here's the point the critics missed until people began to grumble that they were singling out Woods while letting so many others, who happen to be white, off the hook: If Tiger has an obligation to protest Augusta's sexist policy, so does every other golfer on the pro tour and every member of Augusta. So far, we haven't heard a peep out of most of them. Where's the pressure on corporate fat cats like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who recently became a member, as sources told TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros...