RACIST!
Posted on 05/03/2014 10:38:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner Adam Silver had no choice but to come down “hard” as some judged the punishment on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for his stellar racist performance, captured on audio tape.
I laughed at the punishment. “Banned for life” on an 80-year-old man? Maximum NBA fine of $2.5 million for a racist billionaire’s conduct is equally laughable. Nevertheless, I believe Commissioner Silver would have imposed a greater punishment if allowed under NBA rules.
Commissioner Silver’s press conference deserves no more than a C+ grade due to the lack of his leadership experience in the fight against corporate racism in American sports. However, the leadership from wealthy Blacks deserves an F minus for, being all too ready to pounce on the opportunity to line their pockets off of Donald Sterling’s racist diarrhea.
It is a who’s who list of Black celebrities standing in line to buy the LA Clippers. This embarrassing and sad reminder suggests many wealthy Blacks see no sin in making a buck off a known racist.
Former LA Lakers great Ervin “Magic” Johnson, who was the target of, Sterling’s racist rant against Blacks has a net worth of $700 million. This wealthy Black man was so hurt and offended by Sterling’s remarks did not have time to wipe away his tears before heading to the front of the line, as a potential buyer of the LA Clippers.
The queen of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey has also expressed interest in making a bid for the team, to the point of being in talks with Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison. The only thing Ellison needs from Oprah might be her fax machine with a working clock.
The billionaire Oracle CEO outbid the now owners, of the NBA Golden State Warriors franchise a few years ago. Ellison lost out due to the fact that his higher bid, was faxed late.
I believe in dreaming big but some limelight hawks can’t possibly think that the NBA is so desperate for minority inclusion that it would consider these famous minority boxers or Black rappers. Their sins make Donald Sterling look like Mother Teresa.
I am not aware of Magic Johnson, Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Jesse Jackson or even Rev. Al Sharpton offering to make a statement on behalf of all Blacks that does not appear to be self-serving.
American professional sports are playing a shell game with the racist behavior that continues to run many of its front offices because no one is willing to take a stand. Some view the May 1, 2014 unanimous (29 votes) decision by the other NBA owners to go forward with forcing Sterling to sale the Clippers as taking a stand against racism. I see this too as self-serving.
Meanwhile the MLB and NFL are quietly sitting on the sidelines hoping no one is paying attention to their self-serving ways.
Major League Baseball’s slick campaign suggests Jackie Robinson “broke” the color barrier. To break something takes force, Robinson was allowed to play.
If the National Football League was so concerned about the plight of Blacks, they would not be in San Francisco today. Planning for the 2016 Super Bowl hosted by The City right in the middle of a “San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce” boycott of the city’s travel and tourism industry speaks for itself.
If God asked any Black person to give a cup of water to Donald Sterling, the only question to Sterling should be, “Mr. Sterling, would you prefer a straw with your water?”
So one can only imagine that these, “Professional Blacks”, as coined by President Obama in his book; are only listening to media hawks offering life preserving devices for the Captain and his crew.
Donald Sterling is captain of his sinking ship. He will motor away in a billion dollar life boat as the ultimate punishment for being a racist forced to sale the NBA franchise he purchased in 1981 for a mere $12 million.
Meanwhile, a life raft provided by TMZ or the evening news team is awaiting Black leaders content with fighting racism, by pointing the finger at an 80-year-old man; oblivious to what is keeping them afloat.
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Allen Jones is a prison reform activist living in San Francisco and author of Case Game-Activating the Activist. His autobiography of a black, crippled homosexual is in the San Francisco Public Library.
I was gonna say, this is about as baseless and incoherent and offensive article on the subject as one could find.
Seems to me that Sterling was bestowing gifts from well within his half of the communal assets.
I wasn’t really looking for argument, just making an observation really. I think the NBA is on thin ice using something that was said in private. And this could get pretty entertaining watching the legal war that is sure to follow.
To date, everything you've seen from the NBA on this is nothing more than a reflexive reaction that is only intended to shut up the professional malcontents leading the complaints about Sterling. The whole purpose of all this is to make the story go away.
I suspect the NBA would be perfectly fine if they throw the book at the guy in every way possible -- only to have their sanctions overturned in a court of law.
Racism is now calling someone black
Sports Illustrated?? Someone won’t have a job in a few days.
“forcing Sterling to sale the Clippers “
“ a racist forced to sale the NBA franchise”
Huh? English as a second language?
They should all be arrested for creating a climate of hatred towards whites in general. These owners are not exactly mister and misses middle America, they are evil greedy bastards using racial hatreds to make billions. But we have here on FR people who cover for them, they know better but they themselves are paranoid (hard to blame them from the propaganda they have been subjected to). Sports Inc is evil
It’s just too much of a coincidence that this story broke and became “the gift that keeps on giving” just as concrete evidence of malfeasance in the Benghazi scandal emerges. The ever obedient MSM has been more than happy to promote the issue, even drawing in Fox News with the race issue. This story should never have gotten out when you consider that it was a violation of law to release it or report it with serious civil liability exposure (not to downplay the NBA’s quick action, severe penalties, and financial harm to a sick 80 year old owner). Somehow I think Sterling fell on a sword for the “team”.
At least one other NBA team owner expressed concern over where Silver’s crocodilean tear laced outburst would take the other NBA owners. What’s next? Would those who support traditional marriage be lined up for the guillotine in due course?
Note carefully the visage of Adam Silver and his strident voice expressing his displeasure with Donald Silver and his orgasmic salutation of the recent coming out of a newly minted NBA player.
There’s concern that if Donald Sterling doesn’t go quietly, the NBA will face years of legal turmoil along with the public focus on the inequity of casual racist and homophobic pejoratives tossed around by the players. By electing to go full blown PC, Adam Silver while trying to throw Donald Adams under the bus may have effectively run over a porcupine with the result, the NBA bus may not run well on flat tires.
Adam Silver, if he has a hidden agenda, may have wounded the NBA beyond that uttered in private by Donald Silver and raised up in gleeful horror by the demons of PC righteousness.
Bump. The term “Racist” is just a bludgeon. If Sterling or the even NBA was actually racist in policy, only light earth tone (white) men would be playing. No, Sterling would be more properly called a bigot.
“All sports owners...” is a broad brush that reeks with the smell of bigotry. One day these black bigots will be called out.
Slaves do not want to be free. The want to be masters.
No sh*t, right?
Seems to me that Sterling is the only person getting whipped in this relationship.
> RE :”Yeah Sterling’s a real racist. He has a half black, half Mexican girlfriend, buys her 3 very expensive cars and a 1.8 M apartment”
And why should we give a ... what happens to him?
Because the leftists and race baiters just used PC to force someone to sell their business in a sneaky and underhanded way, banned them from the NBA, and pounded him using the MSM for what he said in a country where we have freedom of speech. And mind you from a race baiting gold digging whore using a tape recorder who led their discussion to get him to say those things the whole time knowing what it was going to be used for then putting it in the hands if TMZ. I don’t want any of my possessions or business stripped from me by a bunch of maggots who probably say far worse about me behind closed doors in much more coarse language then play it off like their angels.
Last year the Bruins played three Original Six teams in the playoffs (Maple Leafs, Rangers, Blackhawks).
This year they could get Detroit, Montreal, New York, and Chicago.
He should go to the bedside of a knockout game victim and assure the guy that his brain damage was in no way the result of vicious racism.
RACIST!
Is Mexican a race.
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