Football Hall of fame Jim Brown blasts both Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods for their lack of social activism in an interview that is to appear on HBO’s “Real Sports."Now I believe Jim Brown is right on principle. When you have the opportunity to say something…not to force someone’s hand, but a platform from which people have to listen to you, you use it. Most people sees Tiger Woods as a black man. I can't remember any one ever asking Tiger Woods to be anything other than himself. But to just pretend the black part doesn’t exist is sickening. He makes sabbaticals to Thailand, but you never see him doing anything to
connect, forget help, to his African-American roots.Of Woods, Brown said, “This cat is a mamajama; he is a killer. He’ll run over you, he’ll kick your ass. But as an individual for social change, or any of that kind of —-? Terrible. Terrible.”Brown criticized Woods in January of 2008 for not speaking out against the Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman after she used the word “lynch” in a joking reference to him FULL ARTICLE HERE.
Few things are as powerful as the right word spoken at the right time. By the same token, words withheld when their season of opportunity is gone, are a heavy burden to live with. Solomon said, "There is...a time to speak" (Ecc 3:1&7 ). But it's a limited time, and when it's over it's gone. I don't believe we should spend our future regretting and carrying inside us the unspoken words someone needed to here. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones" (Pr 16:24 ) Wait no longer speak!
