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From my desk in Cambridge, the largest problem, of course, is the recent integration of the Negro in our Great American Past-time, the game of Base-ball. This so-called “Branch” Rickey and his artful Dodgers have turned the sporting world upside-down with the inclusion of Jack Robinson in regulation base-ball. It is an outrage! A black man playing amongst his betters—and this Robinson has no respect! I am told that Robinson led base-ball in the dubious categories of “steals” last season?...
...through the course of this year 1948, at the various campaign stops, I have heard nothing from President Truman or Dewey on the issue of the Negro in base-ball. All the talk is of Marshall plans and tax cuts and something about strengthening Security against Socialism (or perhaps Society—I’m not sure...
...with the hulking black convict in The Green Mile, played so powerfully by Michael Clarke Duncan, who never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
...Woods not because he is partly black but because he is the game's No. 1 player, and the second editorial did call upon Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to protest as well. But asking Woods to lead the charge still struck me as 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...
...TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...