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Thank you. Everyone has a right to his beliefs. Honestly, the Totalitarian Thought Police seem to have made up new rules. If you don’t toe the line exactly, walk on eggshells, choose your words with care - you, too, could be hounded out of your job.

Starting to be a place I don’t much want to live. Should keep the ‘immigrants yearning to be free’ population down pretty soon. Why would you leave everything to come to a ‘Land of the PC.”??

Sterling has a long history of not liking black people, and that’s his right..but all Ive been hearing all day is how he should lose ownership of the Clippers and be suspended..its HIS team, he owns it..he can do what he pleases..he obviously doesn’t hate all blacks since the majority of his team IS black..if black players have a problem with him they don’t have to play for him, there are what, 30 NBA teams, many to choose from, no one is putting a gun to their head forcing them to join the Clippers.
Also, this “Girlfriend” of his is quite the character, she is known for being a gold digger and she had no right to tape record him, isn’t that illegal? You can tape someone without their consent?

Thank you. Everyone has a right to his beliefs.

Of course they do. And they also have the right to express those beliefs, without fear of punishment by the government. They don't have the right to expect everyone else to like their beliefs or to agree with them. If Donald Stirling wants to tell his half-black girlfriend that he doesn't want her associating with black people, that's between them - unless one of them chooses to air it publicly, as seems to have happened.

At that point, it's public news, and the rest of us have the right to react to that news in any lawful way we choose. His players, nearly all black, have the right to be offended and angry. His customers have the right to consider boycotting his team. And the league in which he owns a franchise have the right to impose sanctions on him in accordance with their contracts with him.

That's all that is happening. Seems very American to me - I'm fine living in a place in which some jackass can run his mouth and those who don't like his views can tell him so and refuse to do business with him. Worked for the Dixie Chicks, it'll work for Donald Stirling too.