PRECIOUS MADISON S.

CAYA
11- HUMSS SOCRATES
PHYSICAL HEALTH
Module 2: Lesson 3 - Right Attitudes in Participating Fitness Events

TIGER WOODS
SPORT:
•American professional golfer
NATIONALITY:
•AMERICAN
ACHIEVEMENTS:
•Best Golfer ESPY Award 2005,2008
•Presidential Medal of Freedom Award 2019
•BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year Award 2000
•Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year 2001,2000
•Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Award 2000,1996
•Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year 2019
•Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year Award 2006,2000,1999
•Best Male Athlete ESPY Award 2008,2002,2001
•Best Breakthrough Athlete ESPY Award 1997
•Best Record-Breaking Performance ESPY Award 2002
•Best Championship Performance ESPY Award 2001
•Best Male Golfer ESPY Award 2013,2009, 2003
•Showstopper of the Year ESPY Award 1998
•Come-from-behind Performance ESPY Award 2001

ENCOUNTERED RACISM:
Tiger Woods has been on the receiving end of racist comments (or comments that could be
perceived as racist) from his peers, his colleagues, and even some media members over the
years.

It's fairly surprising to me these remarks have been made about Woods given that it seemed
everyone on tour has fully accepted him regardless of his race at least publicly. He doesn't do or
say many things that could be construed as combustible. It actually seems like he stays out of
the way of most people.
He has been polarizing, though. It takes about a 10-second search of the Internet to understand
that. He attracts equal parts adulation and denigration and that has extended beyond the far
reaches of the web into real life.
Everyone has an opinion about the great ones -- they always do. They are magnets for
commentary, both good and bad.
Woods has handled it all with grace.

ICHIRO SUZUKI
SPORT:
Baseball outfielder
NATIONALITY:
Japanese
ACHIEVEMENTS:
•American League Most Valuable Player Award 1994
•Named MVP of Pacific League 1995-1996
•Led Japan's Oryx Blue Wave to Pacific League Pennant 1998
•Compiled Batting Average of.387 for the year, a Japanese record 2000
•Named American League Rookie of the Year 2001
•Named American League Most Valuable Player 2001
•Voted to All Star Game 2002

ENCOUNTERED RACISM:
Ichiro has also faced racism since leaving Japan’s NPB, and joining the Mariners in 2001.
Suzuki has had “ice and coins,” thrown at him through his career, saying that occurrences like
this “happen a lot”. Suzuki stated that players usually do not speak out against racist remarks
though.

Serena Williams
SPORT:
American tennis player
NATIONALITY:
American
ACHIEVEMENTS:
•Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award 2016,2017,2019
•Best Female Athlete ESPY Award 2003,2014
•Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Award 2015
•Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year Award 2002,2009
•NAACP Image Award – President's Award 2003
•Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year 2007
•Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year 2010,2016,2018
•Teen Choice Award for Choice Female Athlete
2014,2018,2019
•Shorty Award for Best in Sports 2018
•BET Award for Sportswoman of the Year 2017,2018,2019
•People's Choice Award for Favorite Game Changer 2018
•Glamour Award for The Athlete 2009
•Glamour Award for W Channel Sportswoman 2004

ENCOUNTERED RACISIM:
This Mark Knight cartoon published by the Herald Sun depicts Serena Williams as an irate,
hulking, big-mouthed black woman jumping up and down on a broken racket. The umpire was
shown telling a slender blond woman — meant to be Naomi Osaka, who is actually Japanese
and Haitian — "Can you just let her win?"
In the process of calling out sexism in tennis, Williams has become a target for racist attacks.
In a derogatory caricature created by Mark Knight for Australia’s Herald Sun, a seething,
oversized Williams with thick lips and wild, upright hair jumps on her smashed racket, unable
to control her rage at losing the championship. Nearby lies a discarded pacifier, while in the
background a white male umpire says to Williams’s willowy, blond-haired opponent, “Can you
just let her win?”
Women of African ancestry have borne — and continue to bear — the brunt of these racist
attacks. The recent treatment of Serena Williams offers strong evidence that the insidious
legacy of slavery, racism and black female exploitation remains alive and well in our nation and
beyond. Degrading caricatures of black women have never been simply about critiquing
individual “behavior.” Instead, they are intended to marginalize and silence women of African
descent through a reassertion of racist and sexist imagery rooted in the beliefs of the slave era.
The only path forward, as Williams pointed out, is to fight back.

Manny Pacquiao
SPORT:
Boxer
NATIONALITY:
Filipino
ACHIEVEMENTS:
•Eight-division world champion
•lineal championship
•Glamour Divisions (flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight)
ENCOUNTERED RACISIM:
Boxer Manny Pacquiao tells racists attacking Asians: ‘Fight me instead’
Manny Pacquiao is appalled by recent attacks on Asians. And he wants the perpetrators to know
about it.
The Filipino icon, incensed by a video showing a 65-year-old Asian woman being assaulted in
New York City recently, spoke directly to violent racists when he tweeted, “Stop attacking
Asians who can’t defend themselves! FIGHT ME INSTEAD.”
He captioned the tweet by saying, “We have one color in our Blood! Stop discriminating.
LOVE AND PEACE TO EVERYONE!! #StopAsianHate.”

REFERENCES:
WIKIPEDIA
CBS|GOLF
MARLIN MANIAC
WASHINGTON POST
NEW YORK POST