Only a person uncomfortable in their own skin would fall into the 'political trap' that is racial/ethnic identity in the good ol' Jew S.A.

In Trinidad I'm at home among all the Tribes; at least, I was before I left. In the U.S. I quickly learned from relatives that 'Negro' was not the preferred term. When I tried to explain that there is no difference between the term Black and Negro, I was told that not a lot of Black Americans saw it that way. So I adjusted.

When I stated like father like son I was trying to explain why Tiger made the choices he made; he couldn't be any different from what he was taught. In the U.S. if you're not White Anglo-Saxon American you're Black, no ambiguity. Does anyone think the people enforcing those codes are unaware of the plurality of ethnicites in the make-up of the citizenry? It is practically the only place on the globe (outside China) where one cannot just be.

Even in T&T non-white people are a host of other ethnicities including caucasian but most never claim it. They will accept any other label, dougla, pagnol, mixed, negro, indian, creole, etc but they all know if they're not 100% White they're Black. So for most Caribbeans being called African-American or Black isn't the whole truth, but true anyway, so why make a fuss.

White Americans knowing the sensitive nature of race in this country are always looking for patsies. Did the delineation of the heritage of Tiger make him any less Black in the eyes of Whites? All it did was promote a perception of self-hate and turn him into the Judas who denied his father; leaving him without a Tribe.