No Matter What Tiger Woods Says Or Does Tomorrow - His Image Will NEVER Be What It Was Before Bimbogate

It really doesn't matter how many times Tiger Woods says "I apologize" or how contrite he may appear at his tightly scripted and showcased public statement tomorrow. He will always be a shadow of his former public self.

He has lost many fans forever. He has earned the scorn and ridicule of his golfing peers. He has been the butt of jokes and on the front page of nearly every single gossip rag. He has lost millions of dollars and might have lost his wife. Despite all of that, I don't think Tiger Woods understands that he has lost his clearly cultivated public image forever.

No matter how many tournaments he wins or endorsements he's granted or how much more money he earns, there will be an article, interview, or blog that will mention his latest achievement in tandem with a prominent, but off-hand mention of his monstrous sex scandal.

From now on, if Tiger Woods is seen with a woman that is not his wife, it will be reported and questioned. He will never have the privacy he has so desperately craved during his career. And it will be many years before any believes anything he says without a raised eyebrow of doubt.

Tiger Woods is officially the Hester Prynne of professional athletics and he has no one to blame for his status but Tiger Woods. And that's how it should be.

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No Mo' Saving Grace

Damn, no more Ugly Betty, no more Saving Grace. Thank goodness for Netflix. Television sucks.

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Is It A Good Idea For Michael Jordan To Become A NBA Team Franchise Owner?

Apparently Michael Jordan is trying to purchase majority interest in the Charlotte Bobcats. While even a ravenous, brain dead zombie would be better for this team than current owner Bob Johnson, I'm not sure Michael Jordan would be much better. Kwame Brown anybody?

While Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest NBA player of all time and how great it would be to have an African American owning a NBA franchise in the state he is extremely popular in, will Jordan be a hands on or hands off owner? His decisions in his executive NBA career have been absolutely horrible. Adam Morrison anybody?

Will Jordan listen to others? Will he drive coaches and players batty? Can he put butts in seats in Charlotte? Will he be like Mark Cuban of Dallas or like Donald Sterling of the L.A. Clippers? Who knows? And that's the scary part about Michael Jordan as a potential NBA team owner. No one knows. What do ya'll think?

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Damn...If You Thought You Had Student Loan Debt...Check This Out!

Damn....read the fine print folks. I have a little imaginary house I don't have in student loans, but damn! What a racket!

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Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!

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Professor Tracey Recommends "Bronson"

Bronson is off the hook. Tom Hardy is awesome. This flick does go a bit overboard in making a anti-hero out of the real life nutty as fruitcake prisoner Charles Bronson, but he is quite a character in reality as well as on screen. The film is violent and disgusting, so be prepared, but it is also funny and makes a clear statement about prison, prisoners, and prison life.

I am a huge fan of the director Nicolas Winding Refn, who also directed the "Pusher" trilogy. I highly recommend all three films. If you loved the ruthless Russian businessman character in film 2012, that same actor is the star of Pusher III.

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Why Is Harold Ford Jr. Working All Day And Overtime To Make A Complete And Total Insufferable Jackass Out Of Himself?

My long-time readers and good friends know what I think of "Weird" Harold Ford Jr. I can't shake the icky feeling I get every time I see him. Dude is creepy period. It always seems to me that he is lying and that he is a complete phony. This dude will eat shit with sugar on it and tell you with the biggest grin how tasty it was.

Ford is something beyond a "slick willie" carpet-bagging politician, he's something new. Nobody wants him to run for anything in NYC, but there he is. And all he has done since he started stalking New York politics was make a complete hot mess out of everything. He has come off like an elitist opportunist who is not even invested in paying taxes in the state. Is this guy for real?

And why is he even pretending to be a Democrat? He doesn't sound like one, except when he's not flip-flopping to mold himself to fit whatever audience he may be talking to at the time. I hated him during the entire Presidential election, he was always kissing up, pretending to defend and support Obama, while steadily agreeing with his detractors.

Also, Ford bothers me because he's like a moth, flying from light to light without any real purpose. He couldn't pass the bar, so he doesn't practice law. He'll teach at a law school as long as Wall Street doesn't come calling with a six figure salary. He'll work on Wall Street as long as he can pedal his half-ass thoughts as a political pundit on television, but he's toss all that aside if he can run for office, even if no one else wants him to run. The dude is too flighty for me.

Pay attention everyone, Harold "The Dark Sith" Ford Jr. is on the move....again.

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It's Been A Long Time.....But Professor Tracey Is Back In The Cut And Blogging!

Things have been hectic with the gig, the new crib, and the personal life, so the time and energy for blogging just hasn't been there. I've missed being in the mix, but I'm back and ready to rumble. Looking forward to hooking back up with my blogging crew and readers, old and new.

Spread the word, Professor Tracey is back bringing the heat on Aunt Jemima's Revenge.

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Sade Is Back

Sade is back and Professor Tracey is so very glad. I've never understood the Sade haters, always saying she can't sing, but steadily buying her album and snapping up concert tickets. Even my mama is grooving to her new joint. My daily commute to the gig just got a new soundtrack. Welcome back, Sista Sade....it's been a long time....you've been missed.

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Fuck John Mayer's Racist And Sexist Bitch Ass And Holly "Well He Likes Me Too Bad For The Rest Of Ya'll" Robinson Peete Too!

I have never heard a John Mayer song. The dude never appealed to me. He's just another generic wannabe blue-eyed soul singer, nothing special. His regular dumb ass comments in the media didn't help raise my curiosity about him either. Further, I remember Kanye West going on and on about how cool Mayer was; dishing out a ghetto pass to this dude that had contributed so little to the Black community.

Besides the fact of NEVER taking anything Kanye West says seriously, I am highly suspect of black folks dishing on hood passes to white folks. It never fails that eventually, this individual that has been granted "honorary blackness" quickly reminds everyone that they are white and all the privilege that status allows. John Mayer just rewrote the book on how to get a hood pass revoked with quickness.

Yet, the true insult is not John Mayer's racist and sexist bile, black women should really not be surprised. The real insult is how badly so many black folks are getting it wrong in how to understand and react to Mayer's stupidity. Mayer is now crying and apologizing for using the word "Nigger" but slow to understand that his true offense was his absolutely racist and sexist slurs against ALL African American women.

The part that really pissed me off was not Mayer's racist assumption that somehow his racial preference in sexual partners was worthy of public announcement, but how casually he assumed that black women would be open to having him as a sexual partner, ultimately to be scorned by his "white supremacist" penis. Basically, John Mayer will date a black woman and let you suck his dick, but he just can't bring himself to fuck you later. Wow, John, mighty white of you to be upfront with the sistas.

If Rush Limbaugh or Don Imus had said this stuff, black folks would be going crazy, but John Mayer has black folks trying to defend his racism and sexism. Only African American women can be thoroughly shit on and their own people will overlook it and their own men will ignore it. And we can always count on one woman to make herself a complete jackass in a situation like this............

Bringing me to poor Holly Robinson Peete......clearly this sista's porch light is on, but it's flickering. Too quick to be proud about some random white dude saying she was attractive and way too slow to admit Mayer's comments were completely outrageous and over-the-top.

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I Was Watching Samson And Delilah This Past Sunday.....

and I was reminded that Hedy Lamarr was a complete bad ass in that flick! Old school actresses beat the hell out of these chicks that think they are actresses today!

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Black History Month - Henrietta Lacks

Black folks should know about Henrietta Lacks, but we don't. Educate yourself. Read here, here, here, and stop being damn cheap and buy a book! You can cover Black History and Women's History month in one scoop. And after you have learned a thing or two, maybe we can get together as a people and try to get some justice and compensation for the Lacks family.

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