“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” ~ General George S. Patton
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Posted on 05/14/2014 7:07:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the wake of Donald Sterling's accusations against Magic Johnson on Monday that he was a bad role model for Los Angeles youth, the former NBA star issued a response saying that he would pray for the Clippers' owner.
Johnson, who called Sterling's remarks during an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN "disturbing," defended his body of work, and brushed off his claims, adding "I'm not going to sit here and let Donald Sterling disrupt my day, my year, my month. I'm a guy that's very secure with myself."
The former NBA great and current owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Sparks told TMZ on Tuesday that he had "invested over a billion dollars in urban America."
Additionally, Johnson said he was responsible for putting 50,000 minorities to work, building 18 technology centers nationwide to give students without computers access and sending 10,000 minorities to college through his foundation.
"I'm proud of my work," he said. "I know the things I've done in urban America and for people."
On Monday's broadcast, Sterling, 80, told the host that "If I said anything wrong, I'm sorry."
He added, "[Johnson's] a good person. I mean, what am I going to say? Has he done everything he can do to help minorities? I don't think so. But I'll say it, he's great. But I don't think he's a good example for the children of Los Angeles."
Johnson, who is HIV-positive, was also accused by Sterling of having AIDS.
"What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then catches HIV?" Sterling told Anderson Cooper. "I think he should be ashamed of himself."
After Sterling's interview last night, Johnson tweeted, "After this week, no more Sterling talk. Just the NBA Playoffs, my @Dodgers and my @LA_Sparks!"
Johnson was also interviewed by CNN, in an episode screened Tuesday night. In clips released Tuesday afternoon, Johnson characterized Sterling as a man "who's upset and he's reaching."
"He's reaching. He's trying to find something that he can grab on to help him save his team. And it's not going to happen. ... I'm a God-fearing man and I'm going to pray for him and hope things work out for him," he continued.
Johnson also told TMZ Tuesday morning that he had counseled Sterling after the fallout to apologize immediately and try to make the situation go away.
Sterling, a Jewish lawyer and real estate investor, was being banned for life from NBA proceedings by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver last month. After TMZ released audio of Sterling telling his alleged former mistress V. Stiviano not to associate with black people, the NBA fined him $2.5 million and said he was working to oust Sterling as owner of the Clippers, needing a 75 percent vote from other NBA team owners.
Yeah, right.
That’s rich - considering the source.
re: Magic Johnson: I Will Pray for Donald Sterling
I am not a Magic Johnson fan, Hell I don’t even like basketball but IMO this is maybe the best answer given for all this crap.
Whether he is or not he has the right response. Whoever let him be interviewed should be shot and if he made that decision himself it shows how impaired his judgment really is.
Sterling is a sick man, he’s 80, he has cancer, he didn’t get where he is by being the guy we’ve seen on TV.
Does “banned for life” mean that much to an 80 year old?
“I’ll pray for him but I still want him to suffer”.
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> I’m a God-fearing man...
Yeah, right.
Who uses gold digging hookers to setup the owner of a team you want to steal from him for pennies on the dollar and don’t mind dragging a guy’s name through the mud to do so. And is friend’s with the Anti-Christ.
Which god is it you fear, Magic?
NBA has gone to the dogs, who are returning to the vomit.
Psalm 26:11
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.”
The NBA rejects God, mocks God.
To Christians, the NBA should be anathema.
Leviticus 18:22-30
“22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.”
Those who further the spread of sodomy are doing the bidding of their “new world order” financial elite masters.
You could have warned us about that link. I didn’t need to see a bunch of semi naked taint ticklers before breakfast.
My thoughts, too. Typical self-serving BS. Millionaire racist.
There fixed it.
Maybe they will look into whether or not he kept infecting other people after he found out that he was HIV positive.
They’re not getting any of my money, unless they steal it, which, considering the alakazam of duplicitous taxation, they probably are.
The NBA is just one of various control mechanisms the financial elites use to control sheeple.
They say, in effect: Focus on the basketball instead of how you are a debt slave and your children are indoctrinated into new world order as unthinking slaves; and by the way, if we take a viewpoint on a moral issue, side with the NBA. Ignore the Bible, side with the NBA.
Falling for such lies is the path to eternal damnation. You reject and oppose God, you get what you asked for, eternal separation from God, and his wrath.
The only valid good purpose of sports, like other entertainments, is if they function in some way to edify, to teach fairness, hard work and preparation, humility, giving glory to God, etc. And they should not be played on the Lord’s Day.
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I wonder if he ever prayed for our Military?
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” ~ General George S. Patton
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