Pshhh.. Bigotry is bigotry. Im glad this got leaked.Pretty worrying we got old bigoted assholes still round.
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.
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.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.
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.
except you can define racism all you want....this is racism.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.
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?
Did you listen to the whole thing?except you can define racism all you want....this is racism.
What ever happened to liberal tolerance for others, and respecting other people's culture?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.
Just the right wing.
His wife is suing his girlfriend now? I am totally
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 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.
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.
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!
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.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.
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.
Under specific reasons. This is not one of them.Tolerance for bigotry is not tolerance.
And yes, the owners have every right to remove another owner.
Yep.Cuckold is an excellent description of the old devil.
But the hysterics from everyone sure make for good theater, don't they?
Under specific reasons. This is not one of them.
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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