Let’s all do ourselves a big favor and close the door permanently on the race issue as it pertains to the Tiger Woods scandal.

Articles have now appeared on foxsports.com, in the Boston Herald, in the Wall Street Journal and in several other prominent news publications discussing the issue of race within this whole ordeal.

It’s been mentioned how the race of Tiger Woods’ mistresses has further alienated him from the black community.

It’s also been discussed how the media is giving this far more attention than other “infidelity” scandals because it involves a black man betraying a white woman.

Let’s first clear up one thing that should have probably eliminated the entire race issue before it even began.   

Tiger Woods is 1/4 African American, 1/4 Thai, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Native American and 1/8 Dutch.

That means that he is just as much Chinese as he is African American, and he’s more Asian than he is anything else.

So, in essence, we are dealing with a scandal involving an Asian man more than an African American man, a white man or a Dutch man.

I am half Irish, ¼ French and ¼ Native American.

Discussing the issue of race in the context of the Tiger Woods story would be the equivalent of me being one of the most recognizable figures in the world, cheating on my wife with numerous cocktail waitresses and then claiming that the media and public were out to get me because I am a Native American.

The attention being given to the Tiger Woods scandal has nothing whatsoever to do with race, and everything to do with the fact that he is the richest and most recognizable athlete on the face of the planet, and was allegedly living a double life for the past decade.

In a poll done a few years ago, Tiger Woods was more recognizable around the world than the President of the United States.

Based on that information, one of the only scandals in recent memory comparable to this would be Bill Clinton’s affair in the White House, because Clinton is the only public figure who possesses a level of fame and world-wide reach similar to that of Tiger Woods.  

Don’t think for a moment that the Bill Clinton scandal wasn’t every bit as big and probably even bigger than what Tiger Woods is now experiencing.

Of course, I’m not in any way comparing Tiger Woods to the president of the United States in terms of their importance.  Bill Clinton was the leader of the free world and Tiger Woods hits a little white ball around 7 miles of pristinely cut grass.

But in terms of their fame, recognizability and world-wide image, they are similar.

Woods could be black, white, Asian, purple, orange or a dark shade of amaranth cerise and it would make no difference at all.

In fact, Woods could actually be viewed as a shinning example of the racial integration that we are all striving to achieve here in America (aside from the “infidelities” of course).

He is a mixture of five different races.

His friends range from white men to African American men to one of his oldest and dearest friends being a Native American.

He displayed his support for Obama by speaking at his inauguration — which was huge step for a guy who NEVER gets involved in anything even skirting on politics.

His caddie is from New Zealand, his agent is Jewish and his wife is from Sweden. 

Even his alleged mistresses range in race from white to Hispanic to Asian to Jewish, etc.

If we’re talking about equality and integration, can you think of anyone that lives a more racial integrated life than Tiger Woods?

Is that not what we are striving to achieve here in America?

I personally cannot think of any public figure, or anyone I even know for that matter, that lives a more racially integrated life than Tiger Woods.

Bringing race into this scandal is senseless.

And when considering the race, or mixture of races, that make up Tiger Woods, the angle being explored by some isn’t even relevant to begin with.