Posted on 05/02/2014 5:10:06 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
NBA's Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend, 'In Israel, Blacks Are Treated Like Dogs'
Owner Seeks To Justify Racist View of African-Americans
Forward.com
April 28, 2014
In a newly released audiotape of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s notorious racist remarks to his girlfriend, he seems to justify his views of African-Americans by noting how in Israel “the blacks are just treated like dogs.”
In the original, shorter tape released Friday by the TMZ website, which has caused a storm in the United States, Sterling is heard at a game complaining to his black-Mexican girlfriend, V. Stiviano, after seeing that she’d posted Instagrams of herself with black former basketball star Magic Johnson. “Don’t bring black people” to the Clippers games, he tells her. “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?”
In the new, 15-minute tape released Sunday by the U.S. website Deadspin, Sterling, 80, is heard telling Stiviano, 38, “You think I’m a racist …” which Stiviano denies. He insists that that’s what she thinks, that he has an “evil heart,” to which she replies, “I don’t think so. I think you have an amazing heart, honey, I think the people around you have poison mind, and have a way of thinking.”
At that point Sterling - born to American Jewish immigrant parents as Donald Tokowitz – seemingly tries to defend his views by putting them in an international context, singling out how blacks are treated in Israel.
Sterling: “It’s the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.”
Stiviano: “So you have to treat them like that too?”
Sterling: “The white Jews, there’s white Jews and black Jews, do you understand?”
Stiviano: “Are are the black Jews less than the white Jews?”
Sterling: “A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent.”
Stiviano: “And is that right?”
Sterling: “It isn’t a question – we don’t evaluate what’s right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture.”
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Having seen several photos of Ms. Stiviano, it's difficult to see how she can be described as "black." She appears to eyes are consistent with some American Indian (or East Asian) ancestry, as is her skin complexion. Her hair does not have the kinky texture normally associated with black African ancestry.
I haven't the faintest idea of what Sterling would mean by that statement. Israel has very few people whom Americans would describe as "black," i.e., of sub-Saharan African origins (excluding South Africans of European origin).
The only ethnic group which we would generally consider to be black would be the questionable "Jews" who escaped persecution in Ethiopia a decade or two back. However, some dark-complected Sephardic Jews with ancestry from Arab countries might be considered "black" by other Israelis.
Treated like dogs? Well, dogs are treated quite well in general in Israel, especially as compared to predominantly Muslim countries.
Seems as if Sterling is suffering from some kind of dementia, not that it should cause him to have his property stripped from by the tyrannical organization known as the NBA, which consists of a bunch of leftist political correctness enforcers.
Dementia...or, more likely in my view, he has swallowed a number of liberal conspiratorial propositions about Israel.
His expressed racism even has a strong liberal flavor to it.
This is going to COMPLICATE things.
Yes, it’s easy to be “outraged” to hear him attack ‘protected’ groups, but now that he’s attacking Israel, and presumably wants all Bankers (liberal code word for Jews) to be gassed, maybe he’s not so bad after all (at least in the eyes of liberals)?
Blacks are treated more decently in Israel than in America in many respects. I am raising a granddaughter who is black on her father’s side, and she’ll do better here. For one thing, Jews have all sorts of skin colors here, and for another, we’re surrounded by people who hate us, so are inclined to love one another unconditionally.
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