My cat thinks it's kinky.
They should just force every white owner to eventually sell and only allow minority ownership. Then it can go broke and officially turn into thugball.
They should just force every white owner to eventually sell and only allow minority ownership. Then it can go broke and officially turn into thugball.
That's racist.
What makes you think that would happen?
Sometime it is difficult to get people to see/admit the obvious.
Slam dunks have never impressed me. It's just showboating. Shooting and such is better viewing.
And yes, I have sat court side... albeit 30+ years ago. What turns me off now more than anything is how the last 2 minutes of the game gets dragged out to 30 minutes.
Well, seriously, if the NBA was all African-American owned, they can say whatever the hell they want. It can't be racist because they're black. Plus, anyone of them that did was Sterling did would get no punishment at all.
If blacks don't like it, they can boycott it. Let's see how well LeBron can ice skate.
That's gibberish.
So if MJ said "don't bring white people" to his girlfriend in his own home and it got taped/leaked, he'd get pushed out?
Are the Texans race traitors for drafting Clowney instead of Bortles?
You're not considering his statements in context. One needn't use the word 'nigger' or openly display personal disgust or belief in superiority in order to engage in the systemic oppression and marginalization of a minority.
You are trying to define racism by individual actions, words or expression alone, and failing to see systemic oppression in action.
But then aren't you effectively advocating interpreting any action, by any white person, that is remotely negative with respect to a black person as racist? That's too broad a brush.
If you want to argue that's he's exhibited racist behavior in the past and as such we should give more weight to a racist interpretation that's fine - I can agree with that. But to call them racist simply because of the society he's a part of (which frankly isn't nearly as racist as it used to be or as much of the rest of the world is) is a stretch I'm going to make.
That's not what I'm advocating.
He took action to marginalize people for no reason other than them being a minority, that's racist.
His action of telling his girlfriend to not bring black people to Clipper games and his statements about handouts marginalize black people in general?
Its really hard to say that a guy that is employing people to the tune of around 80 million a year and that has been the subject of several NAACP awards is 'practicing racism'. Did he express racist ideas and comments? You bet. Practicing racism? Come on...So you deny racism exists. Big surprise.
Obviously, that's what leads to your false equivalences. You fail to include social factors in a social construct.
I've no interest in appealing to anyone. Why not just call me a race traitor?
Its really hard to say that a guy that is employing people to the tune of around 80 million a year and that has been the subject of several NAACP awards is 'practicing racism'. Did he express racist ideas and comments? You bet. Practicing racism? Come on...
Come now. Examine what he actually SAID..and who he said it to. He didnt say we dont want black people to come to our games, nor did he say we want to make it harder for black people to come to our games, and there is no indication he was committing racist acts with the Clippers. The NAACP was about to give him a lifetime achievement award cuz...sunovagun...dood be given out CHECKS yo.One must be given the benefit of the doubt when complaints are settled out of court. The full extent of his endeavors to marginalize blacks came to light in this attempt to do so.
Come now. Examine what he actually SAID..and who he said it to. He didnt say we dont want black people to come to our games, nor did he say we want to make it harder for black people to come to our games, and there is no indication he was committing racist acts with the Clippers. The NAACP was about to give him a lifetime achievement award cuz...sunovagun...dood be given out CHECKS yo.
He said he didnt want the girl he was having an affair with (a latina that turned out to be half black herself) to be seen with black guys at the Clippers games. That makes him a sleeze, and as a person someone that expressed racist ideation and maybe even an actual racist. And really...thats about it. Douchebag...maybe. Satan...nah.
Where do you get this information?They won't be rescinded because apparently the players went to the owners and said that if they don't kick the guy out of the league...they walk.
The owners balked, Sterling is gone.
Besides, the PR downside from booting him out is negligible. The PR downside from reinstating him is considerable.
So, he is gone.
Btw, I don't think he should have been booted. Private conversations should remain that...private.
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