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There is a fake story circulating on the internet about Al Sharpton having a press conference blasting the lack of diversity of Tiger’s mistresses. It was started by the site Celebjihad and quickly spread over the internet. Here’s what they quoted him as saying.

“Why is it that a man who calls himself black can’t bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?” said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem. “What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over? Shame on you, Tiger Woods. What would your daddy say?

Many other sites have picked up on this story as if it were real.

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