Posted on 09/07/2014 9:34:51 AM PDT by freebilly
Edited on 09/07/2014 9:56:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Another NBA owner has been caught making racist remarks, but it doesn
(Excerpt) Read more at q13fox.com ...
And when the government colludes with private associations to use those words against you..., you're screwed....
Holder said we were cowards to not talk about race. This shows why that is true.
Plan:
1. Tweet something that might be considered "racist"
2. "Duck and cover"
3. Collect mucho dollars
4. Retire to Tahiti.
5. Laugh all the way to the bank.
I exercised White Privilege and paid over $100 for my seat..including local taxes.
Thanks for posting that link. From the article:
"My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season ticket base," Levenson said in the email released Sunday by the Hawks.
"Please don't get me wrong. There was nothing threatening going on in the arena back then. I never felt uncomfortable, but I think southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority."
Levenson said Hawks crowds are 70-percent black, the team's cheerleaders are black and hip-hop music was played. "Then I start looking around at other arenas," Levenson said. "It is completely different."
Levenson said he often heard fans say the area around Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta is dangerous.
"This was just racist garbage," Levenson said. "When I hear some people saying the arena is in the wrong place I think it is code for there are too many blacks at the games."
Though he said he disagreed with the conclusion, he said he told team executives to add white cheerleaders and music "familiar to a 40-year-old white guy."
Added Levenson in the email: "I have even bitched that the kiss cam is too black."
My personal view of this is that while somewhere between 5 and 20% of the Country are unemployed, the 80% who are employed are, for the most part, making pretty good money. This explains why, even in Obunga’s sucking economy you often wait 30+ minutes to get a seat in a restaurant, stadiums are still relatively full, etc.
Nothing scientific. Just MPO.
In today’s Black-Run America, truth = racism.
I don’t support racist actions or comments. At the same time, I don’t think someone’s livelihood should be subject to PC Group think based on an occasional stupid comment.
Does anyone thing these gang members that are punching out folks on the street should be banned from holding a job ever again, even if the person was missed with the punch?
What about drive by shooters? Should we prevent them from holding a job ever again even if they haven’t wounded someone?
Do blacks think any black that burglarizes the homes of whites, should never be able to get a job again?
These owners should have rights too. I realize they are more highly visible, but that should now make a difference if it’s a seldom exhibited behavior.
Look at the words to some of the rap songs out there. Haven’t heard of anyone being banned for those lyrics.
Take you're beating at the hands of the media and the current Administration like a man....
“Free speech is a Constitutional right. The constitution does not however guarantee no consequences for said free speech.”
True, but it’s not that simple. But who’s to decide what or even if any consequences should be administered? By what standards do we judge what speech is worthy of a pass and what speech should be punished?
The answer is that there is no answer. Which is why free speech to truly be free must be void of consequences. Only my opinion.
Wonder what Levin would have to say about this?
Is there any update on whether Sterling will be exempted from capital gains taxes, on account of the sale being forced? If Sterling avoids a tax hit of hundreds of millions of dollars, wouldn’t that give Levenson pause, about selling before being forced to?
Actually that’s a really easy question to answer: who gives you money. Anybody that gives you money gets to decide whether or not your speech is worthy of a pass or should be punished. I suppose friends and relatives get to decided too, but their punishments are usually more private. Out in the public sphere it’s very straight forward, people get to withhold their money or not.
They have Black Privilege.
Was it on the Tonight Show, “Charley Weaver” used to have the schtick where he read supposed letters from back home in “Mt. Idy”?
Now picture an act called “Black Mail” in which a Flip Wilson type reads letters supposedly from “Aunt Lurdine” back home in “Younameit”.
....or not.
LOL - You get one guess. This is Obama's IRS you're talking about.
Hate Speech Surtax
It wasn’t forced. The sale was agreed to before the vote. So no, he’s not immune to the taxes.
“Please don’t get me wrong. There was nothing threatening going on in the arena back then. I never felt uncomfortable, but I think southern whites simply were not comfortable being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority.”
Levenson said Hawks crowds are 70-percent black, the team’s cheerleaders are black and hip-hop music was played.
“Then I start looking around at other arenas,” Levenson said. “It is completely different.”
Levenson said he often heard fans say the area around Philips Arena in downtown Atlanta is dangerous.
“This was just racist garbage,” Levenson said. “When I hear some people saying the arena is in the wrong place I think it is code for there are too many blacks at the games.”
Though he said he disagreed with the conclusion, he said he told team executives to add white cheerleaders and music “familiar to a 40-year-old white guy.”
Added Levenson in the email: “I have even bitched that the kiss cam is too black.” ,p>Though the NBA investigation of the email was ongoing, Levenson apparently concluded he couldn’t continue in his ownership role.
“If you’re angry about what I wrote, you should be,” Levenson said in Sunday’s statement. “I’m angry at myself, too. It was inflammatory nonsense. We all may have subtle biases and preconceptions when it comes to race, but my role as a leader is to challenge them, not to validate or accommodate those who might hold them.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/hawks-owner-bruce-levenson-selling-team-racist-emails-article-1.1931047#ixzz3CeSIwJgP
Black fans are also racist and scare white fans off the NBA team discussion forums.
After reading the entire article I believe he’s merely trying to get out while he can and take a ton of $$$ with him.
No kidding. If I were an NBA owner, and new I could sell my team for way more than it is worth by simply saying something racist, I would take out a full page ad in a newspaper, and quote a rap song.
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