Word: shoal
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...summer to stop holding its tournaments at clubs that discriminated on the basis of race, the decision was hailed as somewhat akin to Jackie Robinson's arrival in major-league baseball in 1947. The Professional Golfers' Association heard a sudden outcry against holding the 1990 championship at all-white Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham -- and against the widely known but long-ignored fact that 17 of its 39 tour courses were at private clubs with no black members. The P.G.A. quickly imposed antibias rules, and Shoal Creek admitted its first black as an "honorary" member. Within months the women...
...year later, however, it is disappointingly the same. Says Calvin Peete, the foremost black pro: "Shoal Creek really did not have much impact." The nation's private golf clubs -- symbols of power and privilege at play, manicured enclaves of racial, religious and sexual discrimination -- show few signs of more than token reform...
Birmingham's mayor said a businessperson named Louis Willie was named as an honorary member. Louis Willie has said he hasn't played golf in 20 years. The club even waived the fee and promised that other Blacks could become regular members if they met Shoal Creek's "normal membership requirements...
MANY minorities have become hypersensitive to statements that may or may not have been rooted in racism, and have consequently become dependent upon the acceptance of others. As such, many tend to judge their own worth by the opinons of people like the folks at Shoal Creek...
...minorities are going to get ahead they will have to be willing to do it alone, and without searching for approval from organizations such as the Shoal Creek Country Club...