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Knicks great calls for all-black league amid Clippers race fiasco
New York Post ^ | April 27, 2014 | Marc Berman

Posted on 04/28/2014 7:18:33 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Knicks executive and former player Larry Johnson had a decidedly different but still strong reaction to the racially insensitive remarks Clippers owner Donald Sterling is alleged to have made.

On Saturday night, Johnson tweeted: “Black people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!’’

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; california; clippers; donaldsterling; donsterling; knicks; larryjohnson; losangeles; losangelesclippers; naacp; nba; newyork; newyorkknicks; rochellesterling; vanessastiviano
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To: angry elephant

I suggest a hunger strike


41 posted on 04/28/2014 8:08:06 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: PGR88

Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson condemned former NBA player Larry Johnson for calling for an All Black Basketball league ... & Islam means peace

http://inagist.com/all/460935140131078144/

GET THAT POPECORN READY!!


42 posted on 04/28/2014 8:11:28 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Mikey,
Knicks great? Lordy, GIMME A BREAK! Since when is Larry Johnson a “Knicks great”?
When I think of “Knicks great” I think of Willis Reed or Bill Bradley or Walt Frazier or Patrick Ewing or Bernard King or even BILLY DONOVAN...etc! But CERTAINLY NOT Larry Johnson...
The headline should have read: “Former Knick under-achiever says”


43 posted on 04/28/2014 8:46:06 PM PDT by Kaneman ($17.50 per thousand plastic T-bags)
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To: Cyman

“Gee, I wonder what a call for an all white league would be received?”

They would not be able to stop laughing! ;)


44 posted on 04/28/2014 9:03:01 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: SpaceBar
How does this story end?

Badly. For everyone. But exceptionally badly for them. That is the path these fools, scum, and hustlers have chosen...

45 posted on 04/28/2014 9:09:45 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

And put those 12 white basketball players out of work?


46 posted on 04/28/2014 9:14:56 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conseravtives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Larry Johnson is not a ‘great’.


47 posted on 04/28/2014 9:18:16 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: MeshugeMikey
We used to have separate leagues. That was called racist. Now they want separate leagues again? This is so tiresome.
48 posted on 04/28/2014 9:30:18 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: driftdiver

He’s black and a Mooslimb. He’s double protected.


49 posted on 04/28/2014 9:37:35 PM PDT by Rastus
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Doubt he arrived at this stupid position overnight.


50 posted on 04/28/2014 11:50:36 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Given time with all the race cards being played "those people" will segregate themselves.
I'll stop caring about sports if this gets any play, right there with Female Basketball.
51 posted on 04/28/2014 11:57:34 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Separate but equal. Isn’t that what donk passed Jim Crow laws were all about?


52 posted on 04/29/2014 1:04:14 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: MeshugeMikey

So a couple of white guys won’t have a job now?


53 posted on 04/29/2014 4:11:55 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MeshugeMikey

So the cure for racism is to institutionalize it?


54 posted on 04/29/2014 4:15:28 AM PDT by IamConservative
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To: originalbuckeye

And the games to be broadcast on...BET?


55 posted on 04/29/2014 5:07:28 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Blacks constitute about 14% of the population nationally. For them to form their own league (blacks only) there are not enough black consumers to support the high ticket prices and salaries many of the NBA players earn.

It would be a financial loser.


56 posted on 04/29/2014 5:09:44 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: IamConservative

in much the same way that curing poverty has been cured by its being institutionalized...yes....


57 posted on 04/29/2014 6:36:50 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I don’t regulary follow the NBA so I wasn’t even aware that there were any “white people” still playing professional basketball..


58 posted on 04/29/2014 6:38:27 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: chessplayer

thats my understanding!

perhaps the great leader can get behind and ORGANIZE..this CHANGE?

it could be called..ObamaBall??


59 posted on 04/29/2014 6:39:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Kaneman

“Former Knick under-achiever says” works

honesty in media is far more rare than white guys in professional basketball


60 posted on 04/29/2014 6:41:13 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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