27 April 2005 - 11:41am
August National Golf Club and Martha Burk
Those of us who are constantly on the go and who like to get a diversity of opinions can listen into the "Commonwealth Club of California." They have some great speakers who offer a variety of points of view.
Yesterday I listened the "Sex Discrimination in Corporate America" by Martha Burk who has challenged the Augusta National Golf Club" that excludes women. If the club excluded blacks, Asians, or Hispanics, says Burk, there would be an outcry.
The membership in Augusta is not widely known, but it reads like a Who's Who of American Corporate and Political Power. I missed the story at the time (2002) but it is interesting to see and hear how the Good Old Boys manage to meet.
Worth a listen...it's about a half hour talk.
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/05/05-04burk-audio.h...
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And if a public school that excluded blacks, Asians, or Hispanics while reciving federal money, there would be an outcry.
http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2005/wellscollege.asp
http://www.msmagazine.com/blog/archives/2005/04/from_ms_mag_...
Augusta actually did ban nonwhites for quite a few years.
And there has been an uproar for quite some time with Augusta's banning of women. A few years back it was pretty prominent..with many people calling for the boycott of sponsors who support The Masters Tournament, held at Augusta.
In this New American Order, women should not be playing golf, they should be home, breeding with their men, cooking for them, serving them. That way the men can swing their, er, clubs, exploring this metaphor of serial indept foreplay followed by multiple insemination.