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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 28, 2014 - 11:51am PT
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Donald Sterling, the racist owner of The LA Clippers, must be forced to sell the team.
A million dollar fine means nothing to a billionaire. A little suspension won't hurt him either.
But if he tries to retain ownership of the team, and black men won't sign or renew contracts with the Clippers, he's in trouble.
"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people," he is heard saying. "Do you have to?"
Stiviano says that all she did was take a picture with someone she admires. "I think the fact that you admire [Magic] -- I've known him well, and he should be admired," Sterling replies. "And I'm just saying that it's too bad you can't admire him privately. And during your ENTIRE F*#KING LIFE, your whole life, admire him -- bring him here, feed him, f*#k him, I don't care. You can do anything. But don't put him on an Instagram for the world to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games. OK?"
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HighDesertDJ
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Apr 28, 2014 - 11:53am PT
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I don't see how the NBA can maintain legitimacy if they don't force him out. A fine just puts a price on being racist.
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survival
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2014 - 11:57am PT
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Magic Johnson has heard Sterling's alleged comments, and he's not pleased. "It's a shame that Donald Sterling feels that way about African-Americans," he told TMZ. "He has a team full of amazing African-American basketball players that are working to bring a championship to Clippers fans. The Clippers also have a strong minority fan base."
Sterling has long had a reputation for racism. The Clippers owner and real estate mogul settled a lawsuit confidentially in 2005 that accused him of discriminating against black and Hispanic tenants at properties he owned. He paid $2.7 million in response to another housing discrimination lawsuit in 2009. Sterling and his wife denied wrongdoing and said the settlement was not an admission of guilt, according to the LA Times.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Apr 28, 2014 - 11:58am PT
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Seems very strange. He doesn't mind her banging African American ball players but he objects if she brings one to the game? None of this sounds right.
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survival
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2014 - 12:01pm PT
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But one of Sterling's top property supervisors, Summer Davenport, gave some damning testimony about him in response to the first discrimination suit, according to depositions obtained by ESPN:
When Sterling first bought the Ardmore, he remarked on its odor to Davenport. "That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean," he said, according to Davenport's testimony. "And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day." He added: "So we have to get them out of here." Shortly after, construction work caused a serious leak at the complex. When Davenport surveyed the damage, she found an elderly woman, Kandynce Jones, wading through several inches of water in Apartment 121. Jones was paralyzed on the right side and legally blind. She took medication for high blood pressure and to thin a clot in her leg. Still, she was remarkably cheerful, showing Davenport pictures of her children, even as some of her belongings floated around her.
Jones had repeatedly walked to the apartment manager's office to plead for assistance, according to sworn testimony given by her daughter Ebony Jones in the Housing Rights Center case. Kandynce Jones' refrigerator dripped, her dishwasher was broken, and her apartment was always cold. Now it had flooded. Davenport reported what she saw to Sterling, and according to her testimony, he asked: "Is she one of those black people that stink?" When Davenport told Sterling that Jones wanted to be reimbursed for the water damage and compensated for her ruined property, he replied: "I am not going to do that. Just evict the bitch."
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:07pm PT
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The fact that no one on his team stood up for him is telling.
And what a hypocrite. His young black girlfriend couldn't bring friends of her own "race" to games?
I put "race" in quotes because it's about time we all become color blind.
This oaf and Bundy. Two of a kind.
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:08pm PT
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Donald Sterling sounds like a very cruel person period ......
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survival
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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He doesn't mind her banging African American ball players but he objects if she brings one to the game? None of this sounds right.
Actually it sounds exactly right. He's sugar coating it for her because she's a mixed race woman and he's trying to keep all the juggling balls in the air with a woman who's not his wife.
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couchmaster
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pdx
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
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Kick him out. And it caused the NAACP to reconsider and not give him the award they were going to give him too, that has to hurt.
..oooooh, and regarding the "girlfriend" (it is questionable if the word "friend" should be in there next to "girl" as there is current litigation): he clearly overpaid.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:48pm PT
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Little bit of irony going on here...The NBA is marketing it's brand name to the hispanic community by having the teams wear spanish worded jerseys...Los Lakers or choose whichever team you like... then there's Sterling making a profit off of the facade until he gets caught with his foot in his mouth..Oops...No suprise or shock going on there...
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:50pm PT
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The things he said were in the privacy of his own home and not on a public forum. In America we have this thing called the First Amendment which allows citizens of this country to hold & express utterly repugnant opinions. We have become so hypersensitive and reactionary to any opinion that doesn't fit our world view. If you don't like his views, then don't support his business. But forcing him to sell the team is a direct assault on the principles that made our country strong.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
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But, couchmaster, I doubt he overpaid if she uses his money to have her eyesight fixed.
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall, CO
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:55pm PT
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I may not like the guy or his "supposed" opinions, but he gets to hold whatever hateful perspective he wants.
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survival
Big Wall climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
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But forcing him to sell the team is a direct assault on the principles that made our country strong.
What principles are those? Slavery? Genocide? Forced relocation?
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Alpamayo
Trad climber
Sacramento, CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:57pm PT
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I may not like the guy or his "supposed" opinions, but he gets to hold whatever hateful perspective he wants.
Yes, and the NBA, as a private organization, gets to decide what is acceptable behavior for its owners.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
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^^^
I agree. What Sterling said was offensive, and we are free to draw our own conclusions about the man based upon what he said, but it's a free country and, to paragraph Larry Flynt, the 1st Amendment grants him the right to be offensive. You may not like it, but there are both benefits and burdens to being in a free society.
Also, for all those who are mortally offended by Sterling's comments, where is a outrage over the misogyny and homophobia in rap and hip hop lyrics? The language there is actually far worse than Sterling's comments, which did not include racial epithets, threats of violence, etc. I don't see public floggings called for in these instances. Again, that's not to defend Donald Sterling. He seems like a total A-hole. However, either we have to hold our noses and deal with it, or you have to take a much broader approach to what limits you should impose on your right to express yourself.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
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Skeptimistic, perhaps you are unaware of how the NBA works. It is like a
restaurant franchise chain and they can jerk yer franchise whenever they
damn please, especially if you ain't servin' the chitlins with a smile.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Apr 28, 2014 - 01:06pm PT
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There sure is a lot of confusion about the first amendment. All it says is the government cannot come arrest him or shut his business down for what he said.
The rest of us citizens are welcome to do as we please on those fronts. If I were the NBA there is no way I would let that guy anywhere near an event in the future .. let alone hold a franchise.
86d off the deepend forever.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Apr 28, 2014 - 01:08pm PT
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One thing is certain for Sterling...His toupe can't hide his red-neck...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2014 - 01:12pm PT
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Funny how it's ok for him to be seen in public with a woman of color, half his age, who's not his wife, but not ok for her to post a picture of herself with Magic Johnson.
Edit: Uh oh, someone's deleting posts already!
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