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This guy should be national - or is he?

by Kay King
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Just listened to Eddie Johnson discussing the basketball owner's racist comments that are in the news.

I knew who Johnson was but had never heard him in a discussion. This guy is good. The talk I heard was aired on MSNBC but it seems Johnson works for FOX sports on a regional level...unless that info is old news.

Very well spoken (no uhhhhs, hmmms, and "ya know", etc). Well thought out comments - excellent speaking voice - and a good looking guy. Much easier to listen to (and look at) than most of the sports "talkers" on national media these days.
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    Wow someone made racists remarks. I wonder what issue they used that one to cover up?

    So sick of this crap. Who cares who doesn't like another race as long as they aren't being violent to them? People of different races/cultures sometimes have norms we don't really care for or approve of. I don't see anything wrong with that until the dislike is used to stop someone from having work or living peaceably, or to perpetrate violence against them. The man who was spouting was with a multi-race girlfriend so he wasn't hating on anyone too dangerously.

    Until people quit worrying about who says what that isn't perfectly PC, we're not gonna be getting a whole lot done with the major issues that are really badly threatening.
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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Wow someone made racists remarks. I wonder what issue they used that one to cover up?

      So sick of this crap. Who cares who doesn't like another race as long as they aren't being violent to them? People of different races/cultures sometimes have norms we don't really care for or approve of. I don't see anything wrong with that until the dislike is used to stop someone from having work or living peaceably, or to perpetrate violence against them. The man who was spouting was with a multi-race girlfriend so he wasn't hating on anyone too dangerously.

      Until people quit worrying about who says what that isn't perfectly PC, we're not gonna be getting a whole lot done with the major issues that are really badly threatening.

      Well Sal, he told his half black girlfriend (caught on audio) to delete her pics of herself with Magic Johnson and another NBA player.

      He is Donald Sterling, for a short while longer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. NBA is noted for having its share of black players. He made numerous other vile anti-black comments on the audio. He also had rental units he owned and refused to rent to black and hispanics, but that isn't the issue with the NBA. The issue is that having a team owner disparaging and insulting the team members is not good for the NBA or the teams. Most of the sponsors have already bailed.

      The NBA commissioner has banned him from all NBA activities and games for life and he is working on the procedure to get him removed as an owner of a team that he despises the race of the people playing for him.

      He expressed his opinion that the team should be like a southern plantation. Black players at the bottom and white owners at the top.

      So this is all ok with you and is justified because he f%^ked a bi-racial girlfriend? Ask him how that turned out for him. She's the one who made the recording.
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        Here we go...

        I take it that we're done with Eddie Johnson?

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          Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

          Here we go...

          I take it that we're done with Eddie Johnson?

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          Looks like it, Joe.

          But, speaking of Eddie Johnson, when I was a teenager, I babysat for a cute little guy by that name. It wasn't the Eddie Johnson being discussed above though, obviously, haha!

          As a matter of fact, there are an awful lot of Eddie Johnsons in this world, just look up that name in your local phone book.


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        • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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          Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

          Here we go...

          I take it that we're done with Eddie Johnson?

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          lol. First sentence: Just listened to Eddie Johnson discussing the basketball owner's racist comments that are in the news.

          Do you really think this is about some guy named Eddie Johnson with Donald Sterling heading up the breaking news of every news channel on TV and the Internet?
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          • Profile picture of the author Kay King
            Not sure of your point or where you are going with this? You seem surprised that he is well spoken and has well thought out comments. Why would he not be well spoken ??
            You're not sure because you are looking for a way to make this racist? Dream on baby - it's not that at all.

            I was impressed with the way this guy thought on the subject and how he expressed his views without being pushy or talking over others on the panel. Then I saw he was a regional sportscaster for a FOX affiliate.

            My point is - I think he'd be really good on the national network scene. So many of the sports announcers, several of whom are former players, seem to think they have shout the scores or the sports news and overuse trite phrases day after day.

            His comments on the subject were insightful and practical. I'd not heard of him (don't follow sports much) and wondered if others had.

            Suzanne - MY comments were about Johnson. Everyone has heard the Sterling stuff and there's nothing to discuss about that as far as I'm concerned.
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            • Profile picture of the author discrat
              Uh duh. I been hit by the 'stupid hammer'. I did not understand what was meant in your Title.
              The National part that is.

              okay. I see. At first it was like "what the heck". But it makes sense now.

              Well, just ignore me sometimes because I have momentary lapses in moronic behavior.

              My bad
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                Originally Posted by discrat View Post


                Well, just ignore me sometimes because I have momentary lapses in moronic behavior.
                I should be so lucky... my lapses tend to have a longer time frame. :rolleyes:

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            • Profile picture of the author HeySal
              Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

              You're not sure because you are looking for a way to make this racist? Dream on baby - it's not that at all.

              I was impressed with the way this guy thought on the subject and how he expressed his views without being pushy or talking over others on the panel. Then I saw he was a regional sportscaster for a FOX affiliate.

              My point is - I think he'd be really good on the national network scene. So many of the sports announcers, several of whom are former players, seem to think they have shout the scores or the sports news and overuse trite phrases day after day.

              His comments on the subject were insightful and practical. I'd not heard of him (don't follow sports much) and wondered if others had.

              Suzanne - MY comments were about Johnson. Everyone has heard the Sterling stuff and there's nothing to discuss about that as far as I'm concerned.
              I digressed because I thought that the whole issue he was discussing is a trumped issue. Anything I hear with a race card in it these days, I find suspicious and want to get to the real news behind what is being broadcast. If Johnson stayed away from this kind of spun news, I'd be impressed. Just the fact he's giving voice to an issue that has been manipulated makes him no better than any other newscaster we have in MSM, IMHO.

              I'll be impressed with a newscaster when I see them reporting real news instead of bandwagoning on crapola with the rest of them.
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        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        Well Sal, he told his half black girlfriend (caught on audio) to delete her pics of herself with Magic Johnson and another NBA player.

        He is Donald Sterling, for a short while longer, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. NBA is noted for having its share of black players. He made numerous other vile anti-black comments on the audio. He also had rental units he owned and refused to rent to black and hispanics, but that isn't the issue with the NBA. The issue is that having a team owner disparaging and insulting the team members is not good for the NBA or the teams. Most of the sponsors have already bailed.

        The NBA commissioner has banned him from all NBA activities and games for life and he is working on the procedure to get him removed as an owner of a team that he despises the race of the people playing for him.

        He expressed his opinion that the team should be like a southern plantation. Black players at the bottom and white owners at the top.

        So this is all ok with you and is justified because he f%^ked a bi-racial girlfriend? Ask him how that turned out for him. She's the one who made the recording.
        So what's she doing with him if he's so nasty? Gold digging maybe? If the guy is discriminating to the level you say he is, well, yeah - I find that highly wrong. However - she's sitting next to him and beds with him. WTF is wrong with HER head? He doesn't own her *ss does he? If he's that atrocious, she needs to get up and walk away. The fact that she's there says more to me about her than about him.
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        • Profile picture of the author seasoned
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          So what's she doing with him if he's so nasty? Gold digging maybe? If the guy is discriminating to the level you say he is, well, yeah - I find that highly wrong. However - she's sitting next to him and beds with him. WTF is wrong with HER head? He doesn't own her *ss does he? If he's that atrocious, she needs to get up and walk away. The fact that she's there says more to me about her than about him.
          From what I hav heard, she and he were okay together even though she is multiracial, etc.... And he is fine with others that are black, etc.... Apparently, she sleeps around, and he is OK with THAT! What happened was that she posted stuff like that to instagram, and had a lot of people setup under it, etc....

          As for the level of his whatever, I just read part of the extended transcript and it sounds far worse than what I heard on the radio. Of course she led him down that path, and he never seemed to finish a thought.

          Exclusive: The Extended Donald Sterling Tape

          HERE is a sample of what caused this uproar, though the earlier remarks were more tame:

          V: I don't understand, I don't see your views. I wasn't raised the way you were raised.

          DS: Well then, if you don't feel—don't come to my games. Don't bring black people, and don't come.

          V: Do you know that you have a whole team that's black, that plays for you?

          DS: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have—Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?
          Poor Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp is also dragged into the conversation, having appeared in an Instagram photo with V. Stiviano. It was her photo with Magic Johnson that had apparently started the fight.

          V: Honey, if it makes you happy, I will remove all of the black people from my Instagram.

          DS: You said that before, you said, "I understand."

          V: I DID remove the people that were independently on my Instagram that are black.

          DS: Then why did you start saying that you didn't? You just said that you didn't remove them. You didn't remove every—

          V: I didn't remove Matt Kemp and Magic Johnson, but I thought—

          DS: Why?

          V: I thought Matt Kemp is mixed, and he was OK, just like me.

          DS: OK.

          V: He's lighter and whiter than me.

          DS: OK.

          V: I met his mother.

          DS: You think I'm a racist, and wouldn't—

          V: I don't think you're a racist.

          DS: Yes you do. Yes you do.

          V: I think you, you—

          DS: Evil heart.
          THEN, it gets worse!

          DS: It's the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.

          V: So do you have to treat them like that too?

          DS: The white Jews, there's white Jews and black Jews, do you understand?

          V: And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?

          DS: A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent.

          V: And is that right?

          DS: It isn't a question—we don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture.

          V: But shouldn't we take a stand for what's wrong? And be the change and the difference?

          DS: I don't want to change the culture, because I can't. It's too big and too [unknown].

          V: But you can change yourself.

          DS: I don't want to change. If my girl can't do what I want, I don't want the girl. I'll find a girl that will do what I want! Believe me. I thought you were that girl—because I tried to do what you want. But you're not that girl.

          V: It's like saying, "Let's just persecute and kill all of the Jews."

          DS: Oh, it's the same thing, right?

          V: Isn't it wrong? Wasn't it wrong then? With the Holocaust? And you're Jewish, you understand discrimination.

          DS: You're a mental case, you're really a mental case. The Holocaust, we're comparing with—

          V: Racism! Discrimination.

          DS: There's no racism here. If you don't want to be... walking... into a basketball game with a certain... person, is that racism?
          Frankly, he is so duplicitous that nobody could really have such a person as a friend. SHE also has her problems. If I were either, I would drop the other just for THAT reason!

          HE might be in the relationship simply to say he is going with such a person, and to get awards. HER motives are similar.

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          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          So what's she doing with him if he's so nasty? Gold digging maybe? If the guy is discriminating to the level you say he is, well, yeah - I find that highly wrong. However - she's sitting next to him and beds with him. WTF is wrong with HER head? He doesn't own her *ss does he? If he's that atrocious, she needs to get up and walk away. The fact that she's there says more to me about her than about him.
          Of course she's gold digging. Look at almost all of his public pics. He surrounds himself with gold diggers. Makes him feel quite like a stud I imagine, because I assure you, without money, those gold diggers wouldn't give him a second glance. He's ugly. He's arrogant. He uses his huge belly as an armrest when sitting and reclining. Who cares what is wrong with gold diggers. They don't own a baseball team of which 80% of the players are black, all the while making vile comments about black people. The gold diggers are irrelevant, since they are nothing but gold diggers and make no difference in this world. Their only skill is screwing old rich men. He, on the other hand, has control over an organization that is largely made up of the people that he disparages and that he makes his money from.

          The NBA commissioner is tripping over himself to make it look like this matters to him. If it weren't for the threatened boycott by the players and the loss of sponsors, he'd just as soon keep ignoring the fact that they allowed a raging racist to continue to participate in the NBA and even were going to give him an award.
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          • Profile picture of the author seasoned
            The NBA commissioner is tripping over himself to make it look like this matters to him. If it weren't for the threatened boycott by the players and the loss of sponsors, he'd just as soon keep ignoring the fact that they allowed a raging racist to continue to participate in the NBA and even were going to give him an award.
            The NBA is like most other such organizations. If you keep it to YOURSELF, and don't hurt the functioning of it, who cares. That isn't to belittle it, but only saying.... If he had pranced out in a dress giving everyone gum drops and roses and kissed them on the cheek, he would probably be out. If he were a known slum lord, or railed against the team for some slight, he would likely be out. Of course, if you make the team mad, with something like this, or advertise being loathsome, which can hurt the sport, they care a lot. And that is what happened here. BTW the NAACP was the one that was giving the award! After Donald Sterling, the NAACP plans to tighten up its award policies: Jarvis DeBerry | NOLA.com

            As for gold diggers, you can bet THAT one will write a book or something. Or maybe she was paid to do this. She planned this whole thing. I think they DESERVE one another!

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            • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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              Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

              That's funny. Little bit of research on this guy tells the story of racism.

              Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

              As for gold diggers, you can bet THAT one will write a book or something. Or maybe she was paid to do this. She planned this whole thing. I think they DESERVE one another!

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              She won't write a book. It was, of course, a setup, but one that he should not have fallen into being the owner of a baseball team, a business partner with Michael Jordan and "a friend" of Magic Johnson.

              His estranged wife is suing her because her estranged husband gave her millions of dollars of gifts. She wants all those gifts for herself. lol. They've been estranged for years. This is a story of payback is a bitch.

              There's the lawsuit and then there's the thing where he asked her to delete photos of her with black men from her Instagram account. Why? Because it embarrassed him. He said that without those photos, associating with black men like that, she could pass in public for white or hispanic. If sleeping with a bi-racial girl embarrasses him, perhaps he shouldn't do it.
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              • Profile picture of the author seasoned
                Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

                That's funny. Little bit of research on this guy tells the story of racism.
                YEAH, and the NAACP is like SIMON WIESENTHAL! If you try to get smoked ham past them, they will start looking for all the fires!!!!!!!

                Supposedly, the NAACP knew ALL about the racism, but looked past it. Of course THIS is different.

                She won't write a book. It was, of course, a setup, but one that he should not have fallen into being the owner of a baseball team, a business partner with Michael Jordan and "a friend" of Magic Johnson.
                OH, I am not on HIS side AT ALL! It is clear that he is SCUM. I even take back any mitigating thing I offered about this guy. And YEAH, he shouldn't have fallen for it. If SHE hadn't taped him, maybe someone else would have, because he apparently wasn't whispering!

                His estranged wife is suing her because her estranged husband gave her millions of dollars of gifts. She wants all those gifts for herself. lol. They've been estranged for years. This is a story of payback is a bitch.
                And SHE is JUST the one to do it!

                On a funnier note!

                Does anyone ELSE thing it is funny and odd that STERLING was suspended by SILVER?

                For those that don't get the reference: Sterling silver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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            • Profile picture of the author Kay King
              I don't agree about the Commissioner as it had to take cajones to take on a powerful owner as a new Commissioner. The old Commissioner, however, looked the other way for years.

              This incident was so blatant it can't be ignored or swept under the rug. I think the NAACP and Sharpton have some 'splainin to do about the criteria used for "awards".

              Not sure the story is over or that Sterling will go quietly. He could drag this through court and basically destroy the team.

              This guy's history is really something!
              Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire | The Nation
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                Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

                This incident was so blatant it can't be ignored or swept under the rug. I think the NAACP and Sharpton have some 'splainin to do about the criteria used for "awards".

                Not sure the story is over or that Sterling will go quietly. He could drag this through court and basically destroy the team.

                This guy's history is really something!
                Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire | The Nation
                This article was something. With all this history, he should have never been allowed to buy an NBA team.
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                Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

                I don't agree about the Commissioner as it had to take cajones to take on a powerful owner as a new Commissioner. The old Commissioner, however, looked the other way for years.

                This incident was so blatant it can't be ignored or swept under the rug. I think the NAACP and Sharpton have some 'splainin to do about the criteria used for "awards".

                Not sure the story is over or that Sterling will go quietly. He could drag this through court and basically destroy the team.

                This guy's history is really something!
                Donald Sterling: Slumlord Billionaire | The Nation
                Sharpton has nothing to do with the award from the local branch of the NAACP.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Wow someone made racists remarks. I wonder what issue they used that one to cover up?

      So sick of this crap. Who cares who doesn't like another race as long as they aren't being violent to them? People of different races/cultures sometimes have norms we don't really care for or approve of. I don't see anything wrong with that until the dislike is used to stop someone from having work or living peaceably, or to perpetrate violence against them. The man who was spouting was with a multi-race girlfriend so he wasn't hating on anyone too dangerously.

      Until people quit worrying about who says what that isn't perfectly PC, we're not gonna be getting a whole lot done with the major issues that are really badly threatening.
      I REALLY don't get him! He pals around with so many blacks, and they considered him to be a friend. Apparently he has done a LOT of racist things(though nothing harmful), but the NAACP overlooked ALL of that, and was JUST about to give him a "Lifetime Achievement Award"! THIS time, the NAACP is OUT FOR BLOOD.

      Donald Sterling is a racist and liberal media are hypocrites | Fox News

      Anyway, he sounds racist only to the degree that he would rather have little personal contact with them made public. He sounds harmless, obviously has HELPED blacks, and is around them a lot for professional reasons, and is ok with it being personal as long as it isn't publicized. THAT was what got him. It wasn't the association, or race, but making that association PUBLIC.

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    Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

    Just listened to Eddie Johnson discussing the basketball owner's racist comments that are in the news.

    I knew who Johnson was but had never heard him in a discussion. This guy is good. The talk I heard was aired on MSNBC but it seems Johnson works for FOX sports on a regional level...unless that info is old news.

    Very well spoken (no uhhhhs, hmmms, and "ya know", etc). Well thought out comments - excellent speaking voice - and a good looking guy. Much easier to listen to (and look at) than most of the sports "talkers" on national media these days.
    Not sure of your point ? You seem surprised that he is well spoken and has well thought out comments. Why would he not be well spoken ??
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    I heard on the radio a while a go that Magic Johnson is teaming up with some of his billionaire business associates in order to try and purchase the L.A. Clippers.

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    I do find it funny and odd about the names.
    I'm glad you brought it up. My brain was picking
    up something about the names, but not connecting
    the dots.
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    The Clippers franchise is now valued at $575 million according to Forbes.
    Sterling bought it for $12 million. So, not really a financial punishment.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Does that value make you wonder if this woman is acting alone? No one cared about Sterling's demonstrated and documented racism when the team wasn't winning and wasn't worth much. Now it is and suddenly this is big news. He paid a lot of money to this woman. There's a movie in there somewhere.

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        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        Does that value make you wonder if this woman is acting alone? No one cared about Sterling's demonstrated and documented racism when the team wasn't winning and wasn't worth much. Now it is and suddenly this is big news. He paid a lot of money to this woman. There's a movie in there somewhere.

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        What would you be if you were attached to another object by an incline plane wrapped helically around an axis?

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        Screwed

        Courtesy Sheldon Cooper:p
        Yeah, the news stories on the lawsuit by the estranged wife are comical.

        Sterling Lawsuit Against Stiviano -- NYMag

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        • Profile picture of the author TimPhelan
          I was listening to ESPN radio the other day when this guy Bomani Jones came on. He wrote an article back in 2006 titled "Sterling's Racism Should Be News" and then came on a talk show to talk about the subject. At first the interview is pretty funny but then it gets serious when he starts talking about the bigger picture. This guy understands what is going on.

          Jones talks about a good friend of his, 32-year-old Leonore Draper, an anti-violence activist who was fatally shot outside her Chicago home on Friday, the same night she attended a charity event she helped organize. And he explained why Sterling's previous displays of racism mattered even more than the shocking words on audiotape.


          Here's the article Jones wrote in 2006:

          ESPN.com: Page 2 : Sterling's racism should be news
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          • Profile picture of the author Kay King
            The NAACP was set to give Clipper's owner Donald Sterling a Lifetime achievement Award... Yes you read that right...On May 15th he was to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award along with Al Sharpton and the good folks from Walmart who are set to get a Corporation of the Year Award...
            So you have a known racist - and a corporation Al himself has called "racist" due to minimum wage jobs - but Sharpton is willing to be on the same docket with both of them to receive an award.
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            Originally Posted by TimPhelan View Post

            I was listening to ESPN radio the other day when this guy Bomani Jones came on. He wrote an article back in 2006 titled "Sterling's Racism Should Be News" and then came on a talk show to talk about the subject. At first the interview is pretty funny but then it gets serious when he starts talking about the bigger picture. This guy understands what is going on.

            Jones talks about a good friend of his, 32-year-old Leonore Draper, an anti-violence activist who was fatally shot outside her Chicago home on Friday, the same night she attended a charity event she helped organize. And he explained why Sterling's previous displays of racism mattered even more than the shocking words on audiotape.

            Bomani Jones Talking About The REAL Donald Sterling Problem - YouTube

            Here's the article Jones wrote in 2006:

            ESPN.com: Page 2 : Sterling's racism should be news
            I heard this man's interview as well. But I'm not sure about his argument that housing discrimination causes black neighborhoods to be more violent. This argument gives no responsibility at all to those actually perpetrating the violence.

            And in fact here in Chicago there was actually a project put forth to try and eliminate these type of neighborhoods, by tearing down public housing buildings - including the famous Caprini Green - and forcing those residents to integrate into free housing in other neighborhoods. The results have been disastrous for the violence and murder rate in Chicago.

            At least before the violence was contained in a few block radius. Chicago was a fairly safe place, you just knew not to go into that neighborhood. Now the violence is everywhere.
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      Originally Posted by bizgrower View Post

      The Clippers franchise is now valued at $575 million according to Forbes.
      Sterling bought it for $12 million. So, not really a financial punishment.
      But I doubt they will let him stay! If they don't, then it has NO value for him, and people could haggle! IMAGINE this were a store that you owned, and you had nothing but peanuts in it. YOU are alergic to peanuts, and nobody will buy them from you. Do you refuse to sell, and just watch the real value drop? Do you perhaps sell it for what you can get, and be done with it?

      He may be forced to sell it for a song!

      BTW At $575Million, this represents, BY ITSELF, over a QUARTER of DSs "net worth", according to wikipedia! Add on associated things, and it may be over HALF! That means that, if he DID sell it for a song, he would now have to be a lowly millionaire, rather than a billionaire!

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    BTW on the OTHER side of the coin, UCLA is rejecting a $3Million gift from sterling.

    UCLA cancels $3-million research gift from Sterling Foundation - latimes.com

    AND, for what it is worth, until the talk of this incident, I don't think I ever even heard of sterling. As I said earlier, I just am not obsessed with sports, etc...

    steve
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    FYI...


    Sterling says he's not selling Clippers.

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...lling-clippers

    Also...


    Nevada's Bunny Ranch Brothel Bans Donald Sterling For Life
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
      Banned
      Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator View Post

      That's hilarious. Oh no, not the bunny ranch!

      Just read that Oprah and Mayweather are thinking about making an offer for the Clippers.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        "At any given time, 20 to 23 percent of the prostitutes here are African-American," Hof said. "And they're smoking hot. Some of them were crying this morning so we're doing this for them as well. We don't need racists or bigots at the Bunny Ranch."
        And his "girlfriend"

        his estranged girlfriend, V. Staviano, now has a free lifetime pass.
        Give me a break! Talk about scrabbling for a headline and exposure. What's next "Viagra prescription canceled"?

        I think the level of hysteria will rise for a while as everyone jumps in front of cameras and microphones to have their say.

        But I don't think Sterling is going to fold his tent and walk away. My view has been:

        He's 83. he's rich, he's got no reputation left to lose...and he's pissed off. I expect he is furious over two things: A girlfriend he's spent a couple million on who he thinks stabbed him in the back.....AND public condemnation of views he's held and publicly shown for years. All of a sudden his bigotry - which has been totally ignored in the past - is NOT OK.

        If he loves the game he'll save the team. If he loves himself more - he'll take the team down with him for spite.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by TLTheLiberator View Post

      So why are YOU helping them to advertise?

      Yeah, they ALSO banned the duck dynasty guys. GEE, you would think they would LOVE those guys to go there and be a part in ruining their reputation! BESIDES, banning doesn't mean much if they have never been there before.

      The league said they want him to profit by MORE than forbes said he could. If I were sterling, I would GLADLY accept and laugh on the way to the bank. If the NBA didn't want to protect the value, sterling could have lost his shirt!

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    I think the players' union has some say as well.
    The team owners can vote him out and this article
    seems to cover the basics regarding forcing Silver
    to sell and the potential harm he can do to the Clippers
    and the league if he tries to stay.

    Should NBA Constitution Prevent Forced Sale Of Donald Sterling's Los Angeles Clippers? - Forbes
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by bizgrower View Post

      I think the players' union has some say as well.
      The team owners can vote him out and this article
      seems to cover the basics regarding forcing Silver
      to sell and the potential harm he can do to the Clippers
      and the league if he tries to stay.

      Should NBA Constitution Prevent Forced Sale Of Donald Sterling's Los Angeles Clippers? - Forbes
      Well, union or NO, the players ALWAYS had the right to leave. If there is some sort of limit like a non compete agreement, people can forgive them for a circumstance like this. The owners job should ultimately be to:

      1. provide venues that are profitable
      2. provide adequate and proper practice.
      3. pay for and provide proper accommodations and travel.

      There may be more, but STILL. This guy can no longer provide that first item. That is important because it supports everything else. Regardless of how you feel about the guy. I mean EVEN if you were a KKK member, you should agree with THAT.

      Steve
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