What means little or nothing to you might hit a raw nerve with someone from a different background. So, when adolescents hung nooses from trees in Jena, LA, it might not have been a blip on your radar screen, but it inflamed those with different pigmentation.
We learn and move on. Maybe. A Golf Channel television anchor uses the word “lynch” in reference to Tiger Woods and gets suspended. The connection may seem tenuous to some, but we can take from it. The capacious ability to learn is what separates us from lesser animals. Well, that plus we’re not afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Or, so you would think. Ten days later, the editor of “Golfweek” is fired over putting a noose on the cover of the magazine. Okay, we get it. Or, do we?
Tonight, I feel a need to put my mind in neutral. So, I pick up the television schedule. TV: chewing gum for the mind.
The Fox affiliate is running “The 39th NAACP Image Awards.” Good for them, but not of great interest to me. My eye scans down the page. The MNT affiliate is airing a movie opposite the awards show.
“Soul Food.” The story of a black family rent with strife.
Nice move.
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