Donald Sterling is a Democrat
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CNN: The NAACP needs to sit down
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/opinion/granderson-naacp-sterling/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
The NAACP needs to sit down.
Though it's debatable how effective a punishment Donald Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA will be -- considering that for the time being, he still owns and thus profits from the L.A. Clippers -- the one voice that should not be involved in this discussion is that of the NAACP. Not after news that the Los Angeles chapter was prepared to bestow upon the disgraced Sterling -- whose racist behavior has long been known -- a second lifetime achievement award next month. (The offer, not surprisingly, has been withdrawn.)
On Tuesday, after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought down punishment on Sterling, the NAACP added its voice to a joint statement with the National Urban League, the National Action Network and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation that said "Sterling's long-established pattern of bigotry and racist comments have not been a secret in the NBA ... yet until now, they have been tolerated and met with a gentle hand and a blind eye."
Say what?
Tax records accessed on CitizenAudit.org, according to an article in the Huffington Post, revealed that the NAACP's L.A. branch had been party to the sanitizing of Sterling's legacy. How? The group has received $45,000 from Sterling's foundations, which, given the real-estate mogul's net worth of nearly $2 billion, is peanuts.
The phrase "sell out" is one that gets tossed around, but for some reason, it doesn't quite cover the NAACP's L.A. chapter in this case.
The first time Sterling was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the group was in the midst of a lawsuit for housing discrimination based upon race. To decide to honor him with the award a second time, after he had paid millions to settle multiple discrimination suits, after learning that he allegedly said that "all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean" and "Mexicans ... just sit around and smoke and drink all day ... so we have to get them out of here," is not selling out.
Selling out makes financial sense.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/opinion/granderson-naacp-sterling/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
The NAACP needs to sit down.
Though it's debatable how effective a punishment Donald Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA will be -- considering that for the time being, he still owns and thus profits from the L.A. Clippers -- the one voice that should not be involved in this discussion is that of the NAACP. Not after news that the Los Angeles chapter was prepared to bestow upon the disgraced Sterling -- whose racist behavior has long been known -- a second lifetime achievement award next month. (The offer, not surprisingly, has been withdrawn.)
On Tuesday, after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought down punishment on Sterling, the NAACP added its voice to a joint statement with the National Urban League, the National Action Network and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation that said "Sterling's long-established pattern of bigotry and racist comments have not been a secret in the NBA ... yet until now, they have been tolerated and met with a gentle hand and a blind eye."
Say what?
Tax records accessed on CitizenAudit.org, according to an article in the Huffington Post, revealed that the NAACP's L.A. branch had been party to the sanitizing of Sterling's legacy. How? The group has received $45,000 from Sterling's foundations, which, given the real-estate mogul's net worth of nearly $2 billion, is peanuts.
The phrase "sell out" is one that gets tossed around, but for some reason, it doesn't quite cover the NAACP's L.A. chapter in this case.
The first time Sterling was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the group was in the midst of a lawsuit for housing discrimination based upon race. To decide to honor him with the award a second time, after he had paid millions to settle multiple discrimination suits, after learning that he allegedly said that "all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean" and "Mexicans ... just sit around and smoke and drink all day ... so we have to get them out of here," is not selling out.
Selling out makes financial sense.
(More at above url)
I am personally offended by Mr Sterlings insensitive comments.
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I only have one problem with Mr S.
That he hooked up with that skank
Very bad judgement
Sorry if Im just repeating what was already said, I see others noticed this whole thing don't smell right.
He could have bought better with 3 cereal boxtops on any streetcorner , and he can afford a LOT better.
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I only have one problem with Mr S.
That he hooked up with that skank
Very bad judgement
Sorry if Im just repeating what was already said, I see others noticed this whole thing don't smell right.
He could have bought better with 3 cereal boxtops on any streetcorner , and he can afford a LOT better.
An article from 1993 and how this is so similar to the marge schott episode.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/murray-n-rothbard/never-say-jap/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/murray-n-rothbard/never-say-jap/
What "claim" are you referring to?
I was wondering the same thing.
Dear dumb and dumber,
He said claims not claim.
As in all the race card nonsense we're constantly bombarded with.
Just like the delight you righties feel when Obama appears to be making a foreign policy error which hurts America.
No rectum, apples to oranges.
Obama IS hurting America. "Racist" words hurt no one.