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

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buck said:
Since it's recent, Cliven Bundy comes to mind. is comments were attributed to Republicans to push the argument that republicans are racist.

Another one that comes to mind is Sterling. Who is apparently democrat and no mention is made in any reporting I've seen.
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Here is the difference. Bundy had republicans lining up to make him a hero. No Democrat has done that with Sterling....apples and oranges....

BY the way the first time I saw this was on a right wing website that posted he was a democrat and a jew...so...................
 
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Sababa said:
Here is the difference. Bundy had republicans lining up to make him a hero. No Democrat has done that with Sterling....apples and oranges....
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Of course they have. That's what the NAACP award was.
 
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shrubnose said:
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.
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I keep clicking the "what's new" button, and this thread is staying at the top, and I've read the post, and have heard the news reports, and listened to the voice clip.

I have questions,

A. Is TMZ a reliable source?

B. How does anyone know that is Sterling's voice?

C. If it's not his voice, why doesn't Sterling come out with a news conference saying it was not him that made the statement?

D. If he holds a news conference and admits he said those things, and apologizes, would any of us feel less offended or outraged?
That's all I got tight now.
 
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Jerry said:
Or perhaps not :2wave:

Now if he had said "stop bringing niggers to the game" that would be different, but he didn't.
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Oh I see, so in your world racism can't be subtle or inferred, you have to use certain words. :screwy
 
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Outstanding Sangha--the wingnuts defend his right to be a racist and then call him a DEM--quite the two-fer.
sangha said:
Which pretty much destroys the argument that some right
wingers make about how the left only criticizes racists who are republicans or right wingers.
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Watch out for the growing committee of Palin/Bachmann RW women on dp with their war on the "war on women" .
 
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It shows that the left has NOT been a kabal of hypocrites, defending their own.
Verax said:
So if he's a Democrat I guess everyone on the left is supposed to apologize for him while simultaneously attacking him for being a racist while the right makes excuses for him... this is a dimension of weird I give zero ****s about.
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Since your party has posters slamming Obama, Jackson, Barkley, Sharpton and others all over this thread.
You clean up your mess and I'll clean up mine.
buck said:
Or just stop tying any racist statements made by random people to the republican party if they happen to be republicans...
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And stop your own knee-jerk reactions of defending racists because "perceived lefties" are attacking them .
 
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Sababa said:
Here is the difference. Bundy had republicans lining up to make him a hero. No Democrat has done that with Sterling....apples and oranges....
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What republicans were allegedly lining up behind cliven to "make him a hero" about had zero to do with racism. But his racist comments were used to paint the entire republican party as racist. And really, that was only one example as it is the most current.

What the MSM should stop doing is pointing out that some random individual that made racist statements is a republican unless they also start pointing out that some random individual that made racist comments is a democrat.

Now, I will say that by getting ready to give him a lifetime award, the NAACP was "making him out to be a hero". So, maybe this part of your comment is incorrect:

No Democrat has done that with Sterling
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buck said:
What republicans were allegedly lining up behind cliven to "make him a hero" about had zero to do with racism. But his racist comments were used to paint the entire republican party as racist. And really, that was only one example as it is the most current.
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In an attempt to be helpful and straight-forward, please note post #172 which does not appear with the thread title.
 
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buck said:
What republicans were allegedly lining up behind cliven to "make him a hero" about had zero to do with racism. But his racist comments were used to paint the entire republican party as racist.
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The entire republican part is not racist.
 
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Top Cat said:
The entire republican part is not racist.
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And neither is the entire democrat party
 
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shrubnose said:
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.
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Jesus. That would be like me telling my gallery agent not to bring art lovers to my art shows.
 
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NIMBY said:
It shows that the left has NOT been a kabal of hypocrites, defending their own.
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That's the funny thing, we go after him for being a racist but that's not good enough, we're supposed to go after him for being a Democrat too, lmao.
 
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buck said:
And neither is the entire democrat party
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It was funnier the first time.
 
Re: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend: Don't bring Black People to My G

buck said:
Since it's recent, Cliven Bundy comes to mind. is comments were attributed to Republicans to push the argument that republicans are racist.

Another one that comes to mind is Sterling. Who is apparently democrat and no mention is made in any reporting I've seen.
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A significant number of Republicans are racists, like Bundy, and many on this forum, a minority, but enough. Like I said though, if you guys want to distinguish yourselves apart from racists you should denounce it when it happens and there wouldn't be this argument of "just another republican racist!" versus "we're not racists!".
 
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He just got caught, that's all. There's a whole lot of that going on in this country. It's actually no surprise. Those players are just a barrel of monkeys to that guy.
 
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Verax said:
That's the funny thing, we go after him for being a racist but that's not good enough,
we're supposed to go after him for being a Democrat too, lmao.
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I simply assumed he was being defended by the Righties because he was a rich owner who made racist remarks about Blacks.
That much is quite clear at the beginning of this thread.

Sterling has not followed up his stupid, racist remarks, made in private when he probably didn't know he was being taped, with a doubling down.
In fact, the new commish has kept him away from the game today, but surely E$PN will go on and on about it.

To finish, Sterling has done good things for the Black community in the past along with his indescretions,
and should be given the opportunity to clean up his name, with more good PR and philanthropy .
 
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MildSteel said:
He just got caught, that's all. There's a whole lot of that going on in this country.
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How ironic you would say that and then follow it with this little turd of an analogy.

MildSteel said:
It's actually no surprise. Those players are just a barrel of monkeys to that guy.
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Verax said:
A significant number of Republicans are racists, like Bundy, and many on this forum, a minority, but enough.
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A significant number of democrats too. My dad's family are all democrats, blue collar. Construction etc. All racists.
 
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Top Cat said:
How ironic you would say that and then follow it with this little turd of an analogy.
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My point is that is how HE sees it.
 
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MildSteel said:
My point is that is how HE sees it.
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I seriously doubt you understood my point.
 
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