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[NBA Gossip] Donald Sterling Hates the Blacks, Including Magic

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Haymitch said: ↑

Must be a racist.

To show my support, I removed my shirt when I walked in to the lobby at work today and laid it on the floor of the elevator.
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There's this cute intern I've been eyeing lately. Tomorrow I shall take off my shirt and show her my muscles.

#821 krnxsnoopy, Apr 28, 2014

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>just a reminder that clippers owner donald sterling has the funniest deposition in the history of law: <a href="http://t.co/2RNqx3wY2k">pic.twitter.com/2RNqx3wY2k</a></p>— josh androsky (@ShutUpAndrosky) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShutUpAndrosky/statuses/457626295715635201">April 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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noone said: ↑

Talking to you is as worthless as you are.
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I'm worthless because I disagree with you? Many of the most valuable life experiences I've had were the result of disagreements I had with another person. I'm sorry you've not found our discussion worthwhile.

#823 Willard Decker, Apr 28, 2014
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Ziggy said: ↑

That doesn't even make sense to me.
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Yeah, the black socks thing Aldridge organized made some sense but this doesn't. The Heat owner hasn't done anything wrong.

#824 pmac, Apr 28, 2014
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noone said: ↑

Where Have you been the past 15 years? under a rock. Government doesn't abuse it's power, DAs and cops don't lie. I don't like sterling but I rather put up with him than the paranoia that someone is making up something I said in a conversation or recording me over the phone to advance their career or get something.
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Simple solution is not to say racist things on the phone if you don't believe them.

And this has nothing to do with government - this is about privately owned business and the court of public opinion. How the information got out is irrelevant.

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Lmao why did the Heat players turn their jerseys around?

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pmac said: ↑

Yeah, the black socks thing Aldridge organized made some sense but this doesn't. The Heat owner hasn't done anything wrong.
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Their display isn't about Heat ownership so much as it's their way of showing support for their colleagues. Sterling's comments are a black eye for the entire league, not just the Clippers organization.

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pmac said: ↑

Yeah, the black socks thing Aldridge organized made some sense but this doesn't. The Heat owner hasn't done anything wrong.
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They did that in honor of the Clipps players silent protest and also wore the black socks as well as the Bobcats as you can see right now.

Mickey Arison has been one of the more outspoken of the owners about this.

Thing about a bad apple is that it spoils the whole bunch. Its going to take collective efforts to get this guy out because I think this is really the motor behind the whole "outrage" thing if you will

Everyone knows its been an issue and its not going to change and something needs to be done

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tallanvor said: ↑

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>just a reminder that clippers owner donald sterling has the funniest deposition in the history of law: <a href="http://t.co/2RNqx3wY2k">pic.twitter.com/2RNqx3wY2k</a></p>— josh androsky (@ShutUpAndrosky) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShutUpAndrosky/statuses/457626295715635201">April 19, 2014</a></blockquote>
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This can't be real can it?

#829 percicles, Apr 28, 2014
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percicles said: ↑

This can't be real can it?
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no idea. I can find references to it on the internet for whatever thats worth

http://www.talkradionews.com/news-notes/2014/04/28/trns-news-notes-42814.html#.U17vwPldXuM

But Wait: More Sleaze Oozes
• This is from a deposition. Sterling is suing a former mistress to get back the house he gave her. But here in the context of being asked whether handwriting is his handwriting, he sort of wanders off topic – it’s priceless (The Classical, The Smoking Gun, TPM, me)
• Sterling: Well, I fool around sometimes. I do. A girl seduces me and tells me all of these hot stories and dirty things and how much she wants to suck on me and takes my shoes off and licks my feet and touches me
• Sterling (continues): When I’m in a limousine, she takes all of her clothes. The limo driver said, what is going on and she started sucking me on the way to Mr Koon’s house. And I thank her. I thank her for making me feel good. / Lawyer: Sir, the question was, is this your handwriting?&&&
• Sterling: …for that purpose. I wouldn’t have a child and certainly not with that piece of trash. Come on. This girl is the lowest form. Wait until the men testify as to – - she is a freak. A total freak
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EDIT here is the full deposition and its on the first page . so very real and very awesome.

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This can't be real can it?
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Yeah its real man.. The rest of the testimony on the stand is even worse.

You used to be able to look at the entire case online but I think its been pulled down since its been a few years but yes man he said those things.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>All the strong admonishments from the owners regarding Sterling makes you wonder why no one ever said anything before about him.</p>— Paul Flannery (@Pflanns) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pflanns/statuses/460926684955697152">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>All the strong admonishments from the owners regarding Sterling makes you wonder why no one ever said anything before about him.</p>— Paul Flannery (@Pflanns) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pflanns/statuses/460926684955697152">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I've wondered the same thing, as this isn't an isolated incident. That Sterling has been allowed to remain an owner despite prior allegations of misconduct--substantiated or otherwise--is partly because his peers looked the other way rather than take the fight to him as they should have. Without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, part of me wonders if there's more information pertaining to this situation that we've not yet been aware of.

#833 Willard Decker, Apr 28, 2014

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This whole story is bizarre. From the way she talks, she's provoking him to try and say something negative. Perhaps Sterling p/o the wrong people and now they're trying to take him down.

#834 chow_yun_fat, Apr 28, 2014
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"The loudest statement that they can make as fans is to not show up to the game." - Mark Jackson on Game 5.

<a href="http://t.co/AWwBj9h52M">http://t.co/AWwBj9h52M</a></p>— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/statuses/460886328872140803">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Who does he think he's fooling? lol, trying to take away their home court advantage.
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LMAOOOOOOO NICE TRY MARK JACKSON

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http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/

It's time to look at ourselves — and our collective moral outrage — in the mirror, says former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking. All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the racist closet. (Was it only a couple days ago that Cliven Bundy said blacks would be better off picking cotton as slaves? And only last June Paula Deen admitted using the “N” word?)

Yes, I’m angry, too, but not just about the sins of Donald Sterling. I’ve got a list. But let’s start with Sterling. I used to work for him, back in 2000 when I coached for the Clippers for three months. He was congenial, even inviting me to his daughter’s wedding. Nothing happened or was said to indicate he suffered from IPMS (Irritable Plantation Master Syndrome). Since then, a lot has been revealed about Sterling’s business practices:

2006: U.S. Dept. of Justice sued Sterling for housing discrimination. Allegedly, he said, “Black tenants smell and attract vermin.”
2009: He reportedly paid $2.73 million in a Justice Dept. suit alleging he discriminated against blacks, Hispanics, and families with children in his rentals. (He also had to pay an additional nearly $5 million in attorneys fees and costs due to his counsel’s “sometimes outrageous conduct.”)
2009: Clippers executive (and one of the greatest NBA players in history) sued for employment discrimination based on age and race.
And now the poor guy’s girlfriend (undoubtedly ex-girlfriend now) is on tape cajoling him into revealing his racism. Man, what a winding road she led him down to get all of that out. She was like a sexy nanny playing “pin the fried chicken on the Sambo.” She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent racist sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.

They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.

I don’t blame them. I’m doing some whooping right now. Racists deserve to be paraded around the modern town square of the television screen so that the rest of us who believe in the American ideals of equality can be reminded that racism is still a disease that we haven’t yet licked.

What bothers me about this whole Donald Sterling affair isn’t just his racism. I’m bothered that everyone acts as if it’s a huge surprise. Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers season tickets. Really? All this other stuff I listed above has been going on for years and this ridiculous conversation with his girlfriend is what puts you over the edge? That’s the smoking gun?

He was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for years, preventing them from getting housing. It was public record. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation back then?

Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.

Make no mistake: Donald Sterling is the villain of this story. But he’s just a handmaiden to the bigger evil. In our quest for social justice, we shouldn’t lose sight that racism is the true enemy. He’s just another jerk with more money than brains.

So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when his racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars.

The big question is “What should be done next?” I hope Sterling loses his franchise. I hope whoever made this illegal tape is sent to prison. I hope the Clippers continue to be unconditionally supported by their fans. I hope the Clippers realize that the ramblings of an 80-year-old man jealous of his young girlfriend don’t define who they are as individual players or as a team. They aren’t playing for Sterling—they’re playing for themselves, for the fans, for showing the world that neither basketball, nor our American ideals, are defined by a few pathetic men or women.

Let’s use this tawdry incident to remind ourselves of the old saying: “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Instead of being content to punish Sterling and go back to sleep, we need to be inspired to vigilantly seek out, expose, and eliminate racism at its first signs
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Not at all. It is a big deal when someone of Sterling's stature makes such inappropriate and ill-timed comments. Even President Obama has weighed in and encouraged Adam Silver to find a quick solution to this matter, precisely because he knows the potential for harm that Sterling's comments represent.
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He didn't make it. It was between him and the GF. From the tape, you could tell that. Very very disturbing indeed. But on the other end, that's his one personal fart, which has to be put in proportion.

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lol @ Mark Jackson.

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Haha Mark Jackson's quote and Les calling for Clippers Free Agents..

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He didn't make it. It was between him and the GF. From the tape, you could tell that.
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The conversation was between Sterling and his girlfriend, but he made comments during the course of that discussion that are now public knowledge because they were recorded and subsequently released.

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But on the other end, that's his one personal fart, which has to be put in proportion.
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No, it's not. Sterling has been accused of misconduct before and has also been the target of multiple civil suits alleging that he made insensitive remarks about minorities. His conversation with his girlfriend wasn't the first time he's been involved in a situation like this.

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