Vanity Fair goes the 'O.J.' route on Tiger

If Tiger Woods and the Cablasian community (where ya at?) had any doubts, Vanity Fair's latest cover has confirmed the obvious: Tiger Woods is black, at least in the way the cover portrays him. Tiger is black in an O.J. Simpson kind of way, photographed to look sinister, raw, almost criminal.
Of course, award-winning photographer zAnnie Leibovit took her shots of the famous golfer in happier times, but Vanity Fair's decision to unveil them now is telling.
When Time darkened O.J. on its cover in 1994, people accused the magazine of racism. Now I'm not saying Vanity Fair of the same thing, but in the words of "Sanford & Son's" Aunt Esther, "You betta watch it, sucka!"
The court of public opinion is very powerful, a simple gesture like this -- while seemingly innocent on its head -- could be very dangerous if said Tiger were being tried for murder or accused of sleeping with more white women than a metropolitan Hooters. Wait.

BlackBlasian and Proud

First of all, there could be a million different ethnicities and sub-nithicies (okay, it's a made-up word) of people these days, but one of the more prominent is the Blasian (or Afro-Asian).
The Blasian - Black + Asian - has been around since, well, centuries, quite naturally. But here in America, the term usually refers to a mix between African-Americans and someone from one of the Pacific nations (such as Philippines, Japan, China etc.).
Some Blasians have been making some serious headlines lately (That guy who smiles all the time after putting for birdie? You know, the one that's usually wearing a red shirt and visor and is usually smiling when they hand him the three-foot-long trophy? Yeah, Blasian.)
Some say the most popular "black" male model of our times is, well, Blasian.
Now, we all know race is a touchy subject, but ethnicity is not as divisive (right?): Anybody and everybody can claim a mixture: The whitest person in the world can claim, with some validity, an African ancestor. What we see now though is a pride associated with it that hasn't manifested itself before.
Some people feel though that one shouldn't emphasize the mixture, just the dominant traits i.e. if you have one drop of blackness in your blood (especially if its clearly seen in your complexion) then you're black.
I don't know; Is Kimora Lee Simmons Black, Blasian or what? She's whatever she wants to be.
I guess we all are.