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Yes.

Maybe!

Yes, but he won't get it. He is a celebrity. No privacy is part of being a celebrity.

Tiger's situation is a by-product of a broken media system that prefers gossip and just about anyone's opinion about it to investigating and presenting in an unfiltered way important world events. Our mainstream media has turned into a rumor mill. It is Tiger's reputation today; it may be yours tomorrow. By the way, you do not have to be a celebrity to be swept up into this.

In my opinion no. Still haven't forgiven him for renouncing his black heritage.

Yes, he does!!! smile....Lovely lady, whom are we to forgive who we may think he is...we aren't his creator! smile. Let's try to give our man a break. LOL

Tiger made a chioce to make a rather good living in the public arena, as such he has to know that everything he does will be in the public eye. When we put ourselves out in that fashion secrets are hard to keep. The masses who follow him as an athelete and pitchman have paid for the show. The screwups are part of the show just the same as the big wins. Does Tiger deserve privacy? NO! That said privacy has nothing to do with forgiveness, that he does deserve. Forgiveness however comes after repentance. I think he is doing the right thing stepping out of the spotlight (at great cost) getting first his marriage on track then later he can resume his career. Please remember that tiger is not the first or only wealthy man to have an affair. I donot condone this behavior, but the behavior itself is not unusual. He is just another in a long list who thought he would not get found out, or that his money could shield him. Hope he learns a lesson from this. the public will talk about this till some one else screws up. ask Mr. K. Byant or Mr R. Kelly or Mr Bobby Brown. to name a few they will all tell you that this will pass but the masses will have their say just as we are right now.

I'm sure I will take a lot of heat for this rather long answer, but I can take it and love a good healthy debate as long as there's no name calling.

I am always amazed at the AUDACITY that people feel that somehow because someone is a professional (fill in the blank), who keeps the mainstream folk on the edges of their Lazyboy recliners or on the dance floor, forgetting about their own mundane lives, it somehow translates to "I" have the right to "know", "accuse", "judge", "forgive" or comment ad nauseum on the transgressions of the individual in question. They are well PAID entertainers.....how does that translate to, "I, the public, have the right to know when you take a dump, and to put you up on a pedastal for my son or daughter to admire and emulate?"

That Tiger is an exceptional golfer, with multi-billion dollar endorsements, in no way entitles the public to set him up as a "role model" or lesser "god". He fell off the pedestal that they put him on, it's become a shark feeding frenzy, as though somehow he "betrayed" them and their precious offspring. He didn't ask these people to hold him up as some kind of "shining" example. The man plays a great game of golf.....the end. The only ones he betrayed were God, himself and his family unit. If the public at large were not so impressed with wealth, status and recognition, they would have no need to salaciously salivate or be (gasp) dissappointed at each new tidbit that comes forth. How does it affect them? Oh.....their feelings are hurt.......puh....lease!

Tiger is a man, a human being, with all of the same flaws that humanity at large has, in spite of his net worth. He transgressed HIS marriage vows, not those of the public at large. All of the "prostitutes" coming out of the wood work to the tune of the highest bidder to say "I slept with, had an affair with Tiger" are no better than the "pimps" in the media, whose primary reason for being is, "play by our rules or we will tear you down and put your business in the street."

You and I could easily be in his shoes, were we all on the same economic and social level. We are fortunate that we don''t have cameras following our every move, or jealous people coming out of the wood work to destroy what we do have, be it family or material possessions. Many "everday. just trying to make a living" folk have a lot of dirt to hide and some of you may know what that dirt is!

Should he have kept it in his pants after he married? Of course he should have, along with every man, be he wealthy or poor, who has had extra marital affairs. They may or may not all be extra marital liasons. He's been a man all his life and I'm certain he has not been celibate during it's entirety despite how focused and disciplined he is at his craft. Now that all this "news" is coming forth, who is to say that these women came before or after marriage, except the women themselves cause Tiger ain't talkin and he didn't choose them to be his wife, even if the facts are true?

I don't care who you are, privacy is due to us all. What is happening in Tiger's life is between him and his wife. One way or the other, she will benefit financially if the marriage fails or ends, she may even have known and condoned as long as it remained private. She and their CHILDREN will suffer the most, due to the salacious appetite for taking somebody down a peg, on the part of the media and the public at large. And what will the public profit? The satisfaction of knowing......what exactly? How does knowing all the dirty details benefit the public at large?

It's not my business, your business or anyone else's. Our lives will not be made or broken by what happens in Tiger's life. The only judge he has to face is God and his wife, children and his sponsors. He doesn't need to be "forgiven" by the public, he plays golf, damn well, take it or leave it. We are gonna buy Buicks, Nike, or whatever because WE like them, not because Tiger or some other celebrity endorsed them. If the only reason people buy products is because of some celebrity's endorsement, that is just plain sad.

The masses have no say in it. When or if he returns to the golf greens again, as long as he hits the ball well, that's all that matters, at least for this writer. Whether or not he receives another endorsement, the man has enough money to live extremely comfortable for the rest of his life even if he chooses not to return to the world of golf. Can many of the naysayers say the same?

To denounce him because he says he is Ameriasian is just plain idiocy! He is not all Black (a term made palatable by the late soul singer, James Brown) cause folk were ready to "beat down" anyone who called them black, back in the day (and we all know it's true). and how the heck African Americans (another popular term for the times) are offended is beyond me. Just because outdated law states once ounce of Negro blood makes you Negro, (and the terms Black or African American wasn't used by the way)? Not all African American folk in America are from African descendants. We continue to put ourselves in a box, colored, Negro, Black, African American to be identified in USA census as a RACE........the bottom line is we're all human, despite where our initial heritage began and it should have no bearing on "acceptance" of each other, whatever we choose to call ourselves in the future. That is extremely hypocritical.

There is no true "African American" born in this country unless they are from the African continent and the line has not been diluted by some other race, and even the citizens of the continent of Africa find it hilarious that we identify ourselves as African! We're all mixed up with something and becoming more mixed up each generation with interracial progeny across the spectrum of humanity. Few races are "pure."

A lot of folk are ticked off because he chose to marry a white woman and white women to have his sexual liasons with, a fact pointed out recently on some of the "talk" shows, and amongst us. "OMG, they're all white women, not a sister or Asian amongst them." Also, though they're all white, they were beneath his station in life (a nanny, a cocktail waitress, etc).

Topics I've been witness to: (He shoulda married one o' his own kind, serves him right, Gotta watch them quiet ones, That's what he git for thinking he better than us Black folk, I bet he wish he was Black now instead of Amerasian, then folk wouldn't be all in his business, When a Black man gon' lar'n that marrying white don't make him safe from jealous white folk, A sista woulda kept her mouf shet and still collected the hush money!) Would the same outrage be present or even questioned IF the wife were a sista or Asian? I say, yes, for about 2 minutes, then the media would have moved on to the next sensational topic.

Again, reiterating my initial point, money and fame does not make one perfect, it sometimes enhances those flaws, causing a false sense of security. A gated neighborhood and wealth does not shield a man from his personal demons....if any man is dissatisfied with something in his life...... only he can amend it. This intensely personal battle should not be fodder for ratings and the entertainment of others. This exceeds the public's so called "right to know", There is no risk to the public, no threat of harm to society, no war declared on US soil. It's gossip plain and simple and it keeps the focus off the things we as a society should be concerned with, things that directly impact us as a whole, like the state of the economy, lack of jobs, etc.

Tiger and his family deserve PRIVACY, not public criticism or public interference which has absolutely no impact on the future status of his marriage.......the same as you or I, if we were experiencing the same circumstance.

"I'm sure I will take a lot of heat for this rather long answer, but I can take it and love a good healthy debate as long as there's no name calling."
No heat from me, ImaSoapNutt.
I agree.

Me personally I don't care for him not because of what color he is or that he doesn't date sistahs, I dislike the fact that he didn't care enough about his marriage to his wife and children.
I can't sit here and blame just Tiger, I blame him because he has a wife and children that didn't asks for this problem and he should have known better but, he stop thinking with his head and let his money and fame do the thinking for him, no he don't have a sex addiction he had a big head issue he got the big head and now it's bobbing all over the place. I also blame those money hungry chicks (they call them tricks where I'm from.) who are addicted to money, and fame at other women and their children expense, Tiger didn't have enough respect for his self let alone his wife and children, I hope Tiger's babies mama seeks help with what she's going through with all this mess and I hope she gets herself checked for nasty people diseases.