Stevie Williams shouldn't get free pass

Growing up in the American South in a small rural community, one generation removed from segregated schools and water fountains,it was not uncommon for me to hear racially insensitive comments. I was hardly ever the direct focus of these insults. When my white friends freely used the N-word or talked about the size of a black person's nose or lips or told a joke about their black maid,hey were never directing the insults at me. They thought that they could get away with racist comments as long as they didn't make these insults personal. I was OK. I was their friend, not the stereotypes and caricatures that they held of many of the black people that they saw on TV and in their kitchens.
I don't know how Steve Williams and Tiger Woods talked when they were alone. But the subject of race must have come up a time or two in the 12 years that they worked together. Tiger must have told Steve how he really felt after Fuzzy Zoeller joked that Tiger would serve a soul food dinner after he won the 1997 Masters. They must have talked about Kelly Tilghman's unfortunate lynching metaphor about Tiger in 2008. Tiger must have let Steve in on the pressure that he sometimes felt to be an advocate for racial causes, when all he wanted to do was play golf.
Steve knew the deal and for 12 years he was Tiger's Man Friday, his caddie and his servant. But then Tiger fired him earlier this year and all the resentment that Steve had stored over the years toward his former boss poured from his heart in an angry and self-destructive way.
Does Steve reportedly saying,Titleist 910 D2 Driver "It was my aim to shove it up that black arse---" about Williams' celebration after Adam Scott's win at the WGC-Bridgestone -- make him a racist? I'm not sure, but couldn't he have made the point he wanted to show his boss up without resorting to the use of a racial modifier? I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt,wholesale golf clubseven after he gave the kind of apology that quietly scolded many of us for being so politically correct.