Time for another "Why is Tiger into white women?" piece

I asked Rolake Bamgbose, an off-air reporter for ABC News who happens to be a stunning Nigerian woman, what she thinks. “Some men want things the way they want it, and for some reason think that black women strive for too much control, are too confrontational or ‘aggressive,’” she says. “But I look at my ladies of all shades of black around me and I don’t see that. So then I’m led to think those men have fallen subject to their own interpretations of exaggerated stereotypes of black women that always have been and continue to be perpetuated in movies, television, and advertisements…Once I’ve gone there I have to let it go and think it’s them that have the problem, and for them, I feel sorry.”

For others, like Aixa Weekes, the Fashion Editor for Giant magazine (who happens to be another black beauty herself), the root of black male desire for white women betrays shades of trophyism. “I think the root of this nature dates back to slavery. We as blacks, then Africans were stripped away from our homeland… physically, emotionally and psychologically abused, left scarred. And even after centuries of progression we are to believe that being light is better, having coarse hair is a curse, and ending up with a white woman may be a prize.” Does that make Tiger’s apparent predilection for white women wrong? “I don’t feel there is anything wrong with black men dating white women, but when a black man makes that his preference it becomes an issue.”