It's hard to believe that we cats used to complain to each other about how much President Obama played golf. Not because we begrudged him any relaxation, but because it opened him up to jibes from people like Donald Trump — Donald Trump! — and because we thought it made him look out of touch.
But the main reason we complained was: We hate golf.
We hate everything about it. It's Scotland's worst export — a stupid, pointless sport played mostly by Republicans in bad pants and by haters who refuse to go to the White House when Democrats live there. (You thought that that all started with black athletes and Trump? Fie on that. Go back to 1993 and the Ryder Cup team.)
And yes, it was racist. And still is — Tiger Woods didn't solve any of that. Just look at what happened to five African-American women at the Grandview Golf Course in York, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
It's incredible that something like this would pop right after the nefarious Starbucks incident in Philadelphia, but white, male golf course owners clearly have no emotional intelligence. If they had, the jackass owner in York would have understood the political and economic consequences of calling the cops on the women for "playing too slow." (Um, you mean "slowly," you idiot. Adverb.)
Now the course is losing business. GOOD. Thanks to the ubiquity of cellphone video and social media, the white establishment is being brought to heel on crap like this. It's decades and centuries late, but hey — we'll take it. One of the most potent powers we have is in our pocketbooks, and we shouldn't hesitate to use that power. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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