Tiger Woods got the OJ treatment.

[bluelamborghini]

Instead, Vanity Fair returned Tiger to his late father's dominant race: black.

How else can one explain the cover photo Vanity Fair unveiled Monday of a half-naked Tiger lifting iron with a skull cap topping his sullen mug? Tiger got O.J.-ized.


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As Timemagazine infamously darkened the skin of America's once favorite (i.e. unthreatening) black athlete, O.J. Simpson, on its cover after he was arrested on a charge of murdering his ex-wife, Vanity Fairmuddied the image of the Tiger we've had in mind until recently: the wholesome, clean-cut everyman; the original post-racial (whatever that is) American; Obama before Obama.

How does prison-yard thug grab you? It looks enough to have made Tupac pour out a little liquor.

The half-nude Tiger also harkened to the generations' old image of the black man as something less than human, not unlike the Vogue cover shot two years ago of a raging LeBron James gripping the whisp-of-a-blond Gisele Bundchen, now Tom Brady's wife and mother of one of Brady's children.

The Vanity Fair cover isn't so premeditated, though. It's emotional reaction. The photo is four years old, as were six more tucked inside. Famed pop photographer Annie Leibovitz pulled them out of her vault and sold them to the magazine, which blew up whatever cover it was scheduled to print -- feature magazine covers are planned months in advance - to hop on the Tiger bandwagon, which doesn't so much as transport Tiger as run over him. (I admit to riding in it somewhere.)

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[daytona 5000]

 

[Trey Bantz]

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

 

[untouchable jc]

Damn!!! They done straight clowned him

 

[servechilled81]

at least they didn't ps 2 cigarettes sticking out of his hat

 

[swanginon4z]

why they got to treat black people like this?
we must overcome.

 

[rottenpieces]

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

They're fake b/c they are Filipino?

 

[eight2one]

if i was tiger, I would say "screw what yall think, im rich!"

 

[kashino1]

tiger should buy the magazine then fire everybody

 

[kingramey]

Originally Posted by RottenPieces

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

They're fake b/c they are Filipino?

did he say that?

 

[balloonoboy]

Well, Tiger did slay his girlfriend(s).

 

[theta]

Originally Posted by KingRamey

Originally Posted by RottenPieces

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

They're fake b/c they are Filipino?

did he say that?

lmao @ this guy. no theyre not fake because theyre filipino. theyre fake because theyre not real thugs. hypersensitive much?

 

[Trey Bantz]

Originally Posted by RottenPieces

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

They're fake b/c they are Filipino?

Where in my post did I say that?

 

[antbanks81]

@$*+ Tiger, he put attempted to put himself above the rest of us blacks and now these folks putting him back in his place. Tiger did the same thing all therest of these black athletes do:
get a white woman. A goofy mark!

 

[halftime718]

Weren't those pictures taken in the summer.

 

[boys noize]

The hell was Tiger thinking posing for those photos?

No surprise these photos were published. The photographer, Annie Leibovitz, has been in some serious financial trouble as of late and probably saw this as anopportunity to cash in.

 

[coolnificent]

 

[calibeebee]

son looks like he's in the prison yard

 

[kicktionair]

Bet hes gonna get more white booty now

 

[im a helion]

I just really want this Tiger $*%+ to die off...I'm really tired of hearing it now. Next thing you know dude isgon be on the cover of Time for "the decade's most sour breakup" or some $*%+.

 

[dmbrhs]

He posed for the photos, so it's is own fault how the manipulate it. The Time Magazine cover was a mug shot.

 

[es el]

a lion would never cheat on a lioness but a Tiger woulds.






PS- tiger's gettin his name changed to Cheetah Woods

 

[yen2dro3]

Originally Posted by Theta

Originally Posted by KingRamey

Originally Posted by RottenPieces

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

He looks more like one of those fake Filipino thugs

They're fake b/c they are Filipino?

did he say that?

lmao @ this guy. no theyre not fake because theyre filipino. theyre fake because theyre not real thugs. hypersensitive much?

http://s642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Yen2dro3/?action=view&current=xo2vq1jpg.gif

 

[ruxxx]

Originally Posted by AntBanks81

@$*+ Tiger, he put attempted to put himself above the rest of us blacks and now these folks putting him back in his place. Tiger did the same thing all the rest of these black athletes do:
get a white woman. A goofy mark!