N.B.A. Is Investigating Comments Attributed to Clippers’ Owner Donald Sterling

The New York Times ^ | 2/26/2014 | BILLY WITZ

[windcliff]

The NAACP fete will be fun.

[Third Person]

Sterling is a scumbag.

[Sarah Barracuda]

He’s also a slum lord, many years ago my sister rented an apt in one of his many buildings here in LA, in a nice neighborhood, he treated everyone like crap..I just think he hates everyone, he looks down on everyone

[BerryDingle]

but rest assured the liberal media Sh!t Storm is a coming.

Seems like this is the only way the media knows how to "go after" someone nowadays.

[morphing libertarian]

Jackson will go away for part ownership of the clips for himself or someone in his family.

[DManA]

You don’t need a 1st amendment to protect POPULAR speech.

[kabar]

I thought for a moment that this was Robert Byrd’s outfit.

[Ronald_Magnus]

Strong Sterling scandal reactions: Barkley decries owner; Jesse Jackson calls for boycott

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-owner-scandal-jesse-jackson-calls-for-boycott-042614

[sagar]

“I thought he said that it wasn’t that he didn’t like blacks but it was their culture.”

So, if blacks did not have their culture, he would have liked them?

[rabidralph]

But he's a liberal. He can't have a racist bone in his body.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Thank you. Everyone has a right to his beliefs.

Of course they do. And they also have the right to express those beliefs, without fear of punishment by the government. They don't have the right to expect everyone else to like their beliefs or to agree with them. If Donald Stirling wants to tell his half-black girlfriend that he doesn't want her associating with black people, that's between them - unless one of them chooses to air it publicly, as seems to have happened.

At that point, it's public news, and the rest of us have the right to react to that news in any lawful way we choose. His players, nearly all black, have the right to be offended and angry. His customers have the right to consider boycotting his team. And the league in which he owns a franchise have the right to impose sanctions on him in accordance with their contracts with him.

That's all that is happening. Seems very American to me - I'm fine living in a place in which some jackass can run his mouth and those who don't like his views can tell him so and refuse to do business with him. Worked for the Dixie Chicks, it'll work for Donald Stirling too.

[Duke C.]

Where was this recorded? California has a "two party consent" law. She may find herself in legal trouble.

Calif. Recording Law

[twister881]

Sterling’s young girlfriend is / was part Latin, part Negro. He wanted her to pass as white or a light-skinned Latina and not post pics of herself in the company of Negroes, including Earvin “AIDS” Johnson. Strange the old fart has / had a colored girlfriend who likely betrayed him, but he’s entitled to his choices & opinions and shouldn’t back down or apologize. Will only make it worse, with the race hucksters and leftist media swooping in to eat his vital organs.

[BizBroker]

Think Marge Schott. Former Cincinnati Reds owner...

[Mike Darancette]

Actually Cliven Bundy was sitting in Sterling’s seat.

[Finalmente]

“I really don’t get it.”

It’s about courage to speak the truth and not be controlled by political correctness, which is nothing more than old-fashioned fear.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Will MSNBC fire Al Sharpton over these comments: Larry Elder ‏@larryelder 9s Boycott Clips? "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." --Sharpton Boycott MSNBC?

[Jeff Chandler]

Where was this recorded? California has a "two party consent" law. She may find herself in legal trouble.

Because of the content, she's immune.

[jocon307]

“...isn’t that illegal? You can tape someone without their consent?

I believe those laws vary from state to state.

But I’ve always wondered about people who were plotting to commit a crime, would it be illegal to record that, or would their own intended illegality trump that.

[Mears]

Good lord,is that real?

It is VERY funny.

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