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

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Pshhh.. Bigotry is bigotry. Im glad this got leaked.
Pretty worrying we got old bigoted assholes still round.




Sterling brought all of this attention upon himself.

No one forced him to say what he said. He brought this heat on himself with his own big mouth.

Read more about him here: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver should make Clippers boss Donald Sterling go away for a long time - NY Daily News
 
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All I know is that people's privacy is non-existent in this country anymore. Now you can't even have a private conversation with your gold digger of the week without it becoming a national story. Too bad.

I can think of about 7 billion people we should be having sympathy for over Mr. Sterling. It's not like this is the first time his bigoted views have gotten him in hot water. And even discounting his 19th-century views on race relations, he's long been regarded as the worst team owner in the NBA, and that's saying something, because the NBA has had a LOT of dirtbag owners.
 
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I find this all very interesting.

Where was this concern about racism when Obama was running for president and his "mentor" was exposed as an anti-American racist who thought highly of other anti-American racists?

Well... I guess basketball is far more important than the presidency.
 
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I find this all very interesting.

Where was this concern about racism when Obama was running for president and his "mentor" was exposed as an anti-American racist with multiple recorded rants to his "flock" (of his own doing and for sale I believe... so his flock could enjoy his words of tolerance and compassion and spread it to others), and who thought highly of other anti-American racists... so much so that he awarded one a Lifetime Achievement Award?

Well... I guess basketball is far more important than the presidency.
 
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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.
Two days later, and I saw a brief blip on this. I found the almost 10 minute audio and listened to it. He is arguing with his girlfriend about perception. Her taking photos with prominent black people. At points in the audio, he tells his young hot half Latino half Black girlfriend he doesn't care who she associates with in private, and talks like he is a cuckold. He just doesn't want her to keep putting pictures on the internet. It is his girlfriend that keeps making it a racist thing, and he keeps talking about perception.

If she gets knocked up.... It makes sense that he doesn't want her sleeping with black people. He wouldn't be able to claim the child as his, and it would create yet another controversy.

Ooooppppssss..... Too late...
 
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The other owners should vote to take the team from him. It is a privilege to own a NBA team, and he has lost that privilege.
 
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Of course that's your observation.

The difference between me and others is I'm not a hypocrite. I believe that people have a right to privacy in their bedrooms, which is why I am very much in favor of gay rights. I also believe that women have a right to privacy when it comes to their bodies, which is why I am pro-choice. I don't pick and choose the meme of privacy as apparently many others do. This man made a private statement to his female friend that is, simply put, none of our business. It was made in private, and he has a right to say what he wants. It's his First Amendment right, especially in private.

nope his first amendment rights protect him from the government not the public.

Racism to me means people getting hurt by the actions of others, including oppression, prevention of success, terror, death, and other assorted things that actually do harm. Who exactly was harmed by what he said to his girlfriend? This guy owns a team that employs how many black people? Lots. The irony of his words make this a total non-issue.
except you can define racism all you want....this is racism.


Agree with him on what, by the way? Agree with him that he doesn't want his girlfriend to bring black people to his team's games? Agree with him that he doesn't want her to post pictures of herself with black people? I didn't know we were supposed to agree or disagree with that. Why would I or anyone care who his girlfriend brings to games, or who she takes selfies with?

you are trying to justify this. I don't know if you want your partner to not take selfies with black people but what I do know is that you don't understand the first amendment and why this is an issue.
 
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His wife is suing his girlfriend now? I am totally :confused:
 
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except you can define racism all you want....this is racism.
Did you listen to the whole thing?

No it isn't racism.

Bigotry, yes.

Prejudice, yes.

Racialism, yes.

Racism... NO!

Stupidity, yes.

Racialism is not racism. Racism has a specific definition, meaning someone thinks one race is superior to another.
 
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The other owners should vote to take the team from him. It is a privilege to own a NBA team, and he has lost that privilege.
What ever happened to liberal tolerance for others, and respecting other people's culture?

Besides, never happen. Their contract doesn't allow for it under such situations, especially when the girlfriend is baiting him to say something that can be construed as racist.
 
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Just the right wing.

Talking about code words is indicative of deep rooted paranoia, my dear.

Is this the KGB?
 
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His wife is suing his girlfriend now? I am totally :confused:

I saw that and would love to know more details.

This same thing happened to Anna Nicole when her 132 year old billionaire hubby met her at a strip club and married her. His kids sued her. I guess it's common practice when gold diggers try to get their hands on the rich boyfriend's cash.
 
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nope his first amendment rights protect him from the government not the public.


except you can define racism all you want....this is racism.




you are trying to justify this. I don't know if you want your partner to not take selfies with black people but what I do know is that you don't understand the first amendment and why this is an issue.

I'm not justifying anything, dear. I don't care what the old coot said to his girlfriend in private. It doesn't matter, and nobody was hurt except the gold digger. And that was the price she paid for being a high priced call girl.
 
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I can think of about 7 billion people we should be having sympathy for over Mr. Sterling. It's not like this is the first time his bigoted views have gotten him in hot water. And even discounting his 19th-century views on race relations, he's long been regarded as the worst team owner in the NBA, and that's saying something, because the NBA has had a LOT of dirtbag owners.

So he's a well known racist, and yet the NAACP said up until yesterday that he's not a racist. Interesting contradiction of the facts (their contradiction). Do they always give lifetime achievement awards to well known racists?
 
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What ever happened to liberal tolerance for others, and respecting other people's culture?

Besides, never happen. Their contract doesn't allow for it under such situations, especially when the girlfriend is baiting him to say something that can be construed as racist.

Love in the age of progressivism.
 
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So he's a well known racist, and yet the NAACP said up until yesterday that he's not a racist. Interesting contradiction of the facts (their contradiction). Do they always give lifetime achievement awards to well known racists?

Hell, up until yesterday the NAACP was going to give him a lifetime achievement award!
 
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Hell, up until yesterday the NAACP was going to give him a lifetime achievement award!

I keep saying that, but the paranoids on here keep ignoring it.

So he wasn't a racist until yesterday apparently. And all that came out yesterday was him telling his gold digger lady friend that he didn't want her to bring black friends to the game, and didn't want her to post selfies with a black man. This of course coming from a man who surrounds himself with black people.

I wonder if the reaction from some on here would be so pronounced if he instead said "I don't want you bringing your Catholic friends to the games anymore, and stop posting selfies of you and your fellow church members".
 
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So he's a well known racist, and yet the NAACP said up until yesterday that he's not a racist. Interesting contradiction of the facts (their contradiction). Do they always give lifetime achievement awards to well known racists?
Considering he did specify "culture" in his argument with his girlfriend, and never said anything specifically derogatory, I think it is hard to condemn the stupid cuckold as a racist.
 
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Considering he did specify "culture" in his argument with his girlfriend, and never said anything specifically derogatory, I think it is hard to condemn the stupid cuckold as a racist.

Cuckold is an excellent description of the old devil.

But the hysterics from everyone sure make for good theater, don't they?
 
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What ever happened to liberal tolerance for others, and respecting other people's culture?

Besides, never happen. Their contract doesn't allow for it under such situations, especially when the girlfriend is baiting him to say something that can be construed as racist.

Tolerance for bigotry is not tolerance.

And yes, the owners have every right to remove another owner.
 
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Tolerance for bigotry is not tolerance.

And yes, the owners have every right to remove another owner.
Under specific reasons. This is not one of them.
 
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Cuckold is an excellent description of the old devil.

But the hysterics from everyone sure make for good theater, don't they?
Yep.

People just cannot be colorblind, and any unkind words that apply to a black becomes "racism."

What gets me is that people go out of their way to see racism. In my opinion, doing so keeps feeding the endless cycle, and we never will become a colorblind society when people keep looking for color.

Yes... I am blaming all of you who perpetuate these thing. Just let it go, unless it is a clear example of racism. Racism is not disliking someone for their culture, or presuming that culture by skin color. That is for of bigotry is racialism. Racism is specifically thinking one race is inferior or superior to another.
 
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Under specific reasons. This is not one of them.

Mike Greenberg from ESPN says the owners have that right, and I trust him over you.
 
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What ever happened to liberal tolerance for others, and respecting other people's culture?

Besides, never happen. Their contract doesn't allow for it under such situations, especially when the girlfriend is baiting him to say something that can be construed as racist.

How were liberals intolerent of the clippers' owner prior to his comments? How did they focus on him? Did they object to his owning a business, to his race, his relationship, his life style...how were liberals intollerent of him prior to his statement?

What a bogus argument.

by your rationale, RNC chair Rince Prebis, Sen. Rand Paul, and all the other Rebuplicans that denounced Cliven Bundy's comments are intollerent.
 
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