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Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My Games

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Apparently context is meaningless to you.

ah so now I post the full interview of Cliven Bundy proving he was taken out of context.

And I am accused to taking stuff of context.

Typical

so i hate white people is not racist total hypocrisy.

again typical
 
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The NBA, in and of itself, is not racist. Donald Sterling is a racist. Donald Sterling is not the NBA. Get it through your head.

Clearly he is. But I have to admit, I am not really shocked at what Barkely said. His comments are also racist in my opinion.

There's plenty of stupidity to go around. The league is roughly 75% black, 17% white and the balance is a mix of other ethnicities.

Barkley called on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to “suspend him and fine him immediately,” and made the obvious point that you can’t have a racist owner in a sport where the overwhelming majority of players are black. He said, “We cannot have an owner discriminating against a league that––we’re a black league, Ernie. We are a black league.

Charles Barkley: ‘Jackass’ Sterling Needs to Go, ‘We Are a Black League’ | Mediaite
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

No. The idea bereft Democrats buy votes by promising to redistribute what others have worked for. They convince the recipients that they were victims of the innocent Americans that Liberal governments steal from in order to buy votes.

Mkay.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

ah so now I post the full interview of Cliven Bundy proving he was taken out of context.

And I am accused to taking stuff of context.

Typical

so i hate white people is not racist total hypocrisy.

again typical

Stop whining.

Donald Sterling is racist, Cliven Bundy is racist, and yeah, Charles Barkley is probably a little bit racist too.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

Bull****!!! This woman set him up. If you buy into this bull**** tape, good for you. She was baiting him...setting him up...I hope she made her $$, 'cause I'm betting he's through with her ass.

Do you think you could be baited into saying "Don't bring any black people around" ?
 
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Do you think you could be baited into saying "Don't bring any black people around" ?

I found the funniest part of the story to be that he was objecting to a picture of her and Magic ****ing Johnson. His team literally shared an arena with Magic's for Magic's entire playing career.
 
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Do you think you could be baited into saying "Don't bring any black people around" ?

I think Maggie is proposing the possibility that the woman is playing on his past in order to get back at him with an invented story. I think that is a reasonable possibility.

Do we have his words recorded for sure? I forget if this is audio or tweets.


Edit: it's audio, so that doesn't work. Perhaps Maggie missed the same.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

I found the funniest part of the story to be that he was objecting to a picture of her and Magic ****ing Johnson. His team literally shared an arena with Magic's for Magic's entire playing career.

I was amused that he told his GF pretty much it was ok if she ****ed Magic.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

I was amused that he told his GF pretty much it was ok if she ****ed Magic.

The guy with HIV. Good call.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

You have to take pretty much anything Charles Barkley says with a grain of salt. He's a professional troll.

A turrible troll, at that.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

Donald Sterling, the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, told his girlfriend not to post pictures on Instagram of herself with black people and not to bring black people to his basketball games, according to an audio recording posted by TMZ.

Read more here: http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/04/26/3431213/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-tells-girlfriend-dont-bring-black-people-to-my-games/


I don't go to basketball games and I don't watch them on TV, but I know that a lot of black people play and are interested in basketball, so I am a little surprised that Mr. Sterling, whose girlfriend is half- black and half-Mexican, would say this.

It will be interesting to see what the NBA has to say about this.

Good for him!

If fans vote with their feet, and the team revenue drops into the toilet, then the laissez faire economy will have worked as it should.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

Donald Sterling, the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, told his girlfriend not to post pictures on Instagram of herself with black people and not to bring black people to his basketball games, according to an audio recording posted by TMZ.

Read more here: http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/04/26/3431213/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-tells-girlfriend-dont-bring-black-people-to-my-games/


I don't go to basketball games and I don't watch them on TV, but I know that a lot of black people play and are interested in basketball, so I am a little surprised that Mr. Sterling, whose girlfriend is half- black and half-Mexican, would say this.

It will be interesting to see what the NBA has to say about this.

The NBA never said much about what an owner of the Brooklyn Nets said for years about African americans. But then
gain, nobody cared what Jay-Z sang about.
 
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Good for him!

If fans vote with their feet, and the team revenue drops into the toilet, then the laissez faire economy will have worked as it should.

Only problem with that is that gate revenue is a very, very small portion of overall revenue for NBA teams. The largest revenue stream is the national TV deal with ESPN. All the teams share in that equally.
 
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Stop whining.

Donald Sterling is racist, Cliven Bundy is racist, and yeah, Charles Barkley is probably a little bit racist too.

see you cant even say it. But hey sterling might be a little bit racist.

I dont buy the cliven bundy though. i think he was an older man stumbled over a few words and sentences. and negro use to be the acceptable word.
United negro college fund remember that one? I do i remember back in the day thinking why is that not racist something just for black people.
 
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see you cant even say it. But hey sterling might be a little bit racist.

I dont buy the cliven bundy though. i think he was an older man stumbled over a few words and sentences. and negro use to be the acceptable word.
United negro college fund remember that one? I do i remember back in the day thinking why is that not racist something just for black people.

I don't care that he said "negro." I care that he insinuated that blacks were better off as slaves.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

see you cant even say it. But hey sterling might be a little bit racist.

I dont buy the cliven bundy though. i think he was an older man stumbled over a few words and sentences. and negro use to be the acceptable word.
United negro college fund remember that one? I do i remember back in the day thinking why is that not racist something just for black people.

C'mon man. Bundy is a racist. Only a racist would suggest that blacks would be better off as slaves. Especially the additional family time comment. You're looking rather foolish defending him/
 
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I don't care that he said "negro." I care that he insinuated that blacks were better off as slaves.

He said are they better off on welfare!
 
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C'mon man. Bundy is a racist. Only a racist would suggest that blacks would be better off as slaves. Especially the additional family time comment. You're looking rather foolish defending him/

Well I also think Trayvon was racist, but others think im foolish that too. I know what racism is.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

He said are they better off on welfare!

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Cliven Bundy on blacks: ‘Are they better off as slaves?’

You can't polish that turd.
 
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Moderator's Warning:
Things that aren't on topic:

1. Bundy
2. Trayvon

Stop attempting threadjacks
 
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Only problem with that is that gate revenue is a very, very small portion of overall revenue for NBA teams. The largest revenue stream is the national TV deal with ESPN. All the teams share in that equally.

Ah, I see.

I am not a sports guy as you can see.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

Regardless of peoples views on what he said or what should happen, it doesn't look like the NBA will likely have the power to force him to sell the team:

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Forcibly removing Sterling from the NBA is unlikely to happen. The NBA’s constitution, which is confidential, reportedly contains language permitting owners to authorize the league to sell a team without an owner’s consent. The language, SI.com is told, only covers very limited circumstances and these circumstances concern team finances — namely, when an owner can’t pay his bills.

There is reportedly no language authorizing the NBA to sell a team because of an owner’s hurtful remarks or embarrassing behavior. Even if constitutional language could be construed to authorize a forced sale of the Clippers, NBA owners would likely be reluctant to do so given the precedent it would set.

The one thing owners could possibly do is remove the Clippers from the league, allowing the owner to keep ownership...but not letting the team be part of the NBA. However, that's EXTREMELY unlikely to occur.

The players could possibly refuse to play for him, but it's also doubtful they're going to forgo the paychecks and simply wait out their contracts due to having an issue with what the owner said.

Fans could simply stop going to the game or buying merchandise, but there hasn't been much evidence that fans will significantly abandon purchasing things regarding a pro sports team due to displeasure with an owner, coach, or player.

Nor is this a GM or a coach where you could potentially suspend them. How do you "suspend" an owner? What would you suspend them from?
 
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Taking his team away for racist comments would be like taking Jesse Jackson's church away for his comments on Jews. It won't happen and it's mighty unrealistic. Not to mention completely in violation of his constitutional rights.
 
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