Posted on 04/28/2014 6:22:30 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attacked the collective outrage emanating from America’s media over Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s alleged racist remarks, calling the publication of a private conversation “sleazy” and wondering why earlier, more public manifestations of racism failed to similarly shock.
In an op-ed published in Time, Abdul-Jabbar explains that we’re witnessing a veritable “finger-wagging Olympics . . . all over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the racist closet.”
“Yes, I’m angry, too,” Abdul-Jabbar admits, “but not just about the sins of Donald Sterling. I’ve got a list.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I have mad respect for Kareem right now. This is just astonishingly good stuff.
the truth is that no matter how many laws or regulations or decrees TPTB make, you can not make people accept certain things....
eg...most people will dutifully accept the gay marriage stuff but you have to know that a vast majority dislike and even hate that stuff and when given a chance, they're going to explode....same with race relations....you can force people together but you can not make them like each other...
its better to acknowledge that not everyone is going to like or love you and leave it at that....
Loo al Cinder?
And everybody that cared said....
“So, if we’re all going to be outraged,” the former NBA star concluded, “let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when his racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’”
I couldn't do better than that, and I've tried.
Guess Bruce Lee kicked some sense in to him afterall...
Let's not forget about the "rappers" and the typical street folks. From what I read, the only thing that Sterling said was that he did not like or care to associate with black people.
He didn’t mention Al Sharpton, who once incited a riot that led to at least one fatality, but he did lay some blame on Sterling’s gold-digger girlfriend. By the way, a photo of either Don S or his girlfriend completely ruins titillating thoughts of infidelity for me. Thanks a lot, a-holes.
Both Sterling and his girl-friend are pathetic.
She, a gold-digger with her unctuous and fake “honey” and “sweetie” and acceptance of his racism (she herself being part black) to keep the cash flowing.
He an old fool in his dotage, seemingly regressing to childhood with his whining and simplistic racism and obvious hypocrisy, playing the pathetic game of lying to himself about his age because he is able to buy a sexually attractive girlfriend.
Interesting biblical references he uses.
What did he say?
...and he really has the numbers to back it up. Unlike many of the players of the past, in his prime, he would be an absolutely formidable player even today. And...I’ve seen him, and he has a GREAT sense of humor, although you might find this hard to believe.
What I find exceptionally disgusting about this entire ugly incident, is that that the rich white liberal jerk loathes the people who are working hard and making money for him, while being having laurels bestowed upon him by his false bought-and-paid for admirers and enablers, namely, the NAACP.
LOL! There is a reference that I'd long forgotten.
But good for the big guy - a fairly reasonable assessment of this nonsense.
True... Some sanity spoken...
“Listen, kid, I’m out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton & Lanier up and down the court for forty-eight minutes!”
Wow!
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And he didn’t mention Nets part owner Jay-Z who wore a racist medallion to a Nets game. I can’t recall the media getting too upset about that. But overall a decent article by A-J who was not the most likable person when he was younger. As a lifetime resident of Wisconsin, I remember his reaction to being selected by Milwaukee was that he’d been drafted by farmers.
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