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N.B.A. Is Investigating Comments Attributed to Clippers’ Owner Donald Sterling
The New York Times ^
| 2/26/2014
| BILLY WITZ
Posted on 04/26/2014 2:42:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
The N.B.A. has started an investigation into remarks attributed to the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after the release Friday night of an audio recording on TMZ.com in which a person TMZ identified as Sterling admonished a female friend to avoid being seen in public with black people.
Reaction around the league, whose players are predominantly African-American, was swift. The Clippers, who are in San Francisco for their first-round playoff series with the Golden State Warriors, held a team meeting late Friday, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. Magic Johnson, the former Lakers star and minority owner, said on Twitter that he would not attend a Clippers game as long as Sterling remained owner.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: black; california; clippers; donaldsterling; donsterling; hispanic; laclippers; losangeles; losangelesclippers; nba; racism; white
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To: Beave Meister
The NAACP fete will be fun.
To: Beave Meister
To: Third Person
He’s also a slum lord, many years ago my sister rented an apt in one of his many buildings here in LA, in a nice neighborhood, he treated everyone like crap..I just think he hates everyone, he looks down on everyone
To: Beave Meister
but rest assured the liberal media Sh!t Storm is a coming. Seems like this is the only way the media knows how to "go after" someone nowadays.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:14:23 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: Sarah Barracuda
Jackson will go away for part ownership of the clips for himself or someone in his family.
To: Beave Meister
You don’t need a 1st amendment to protect POPULAR speech.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:16:37 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: windcliff
I thought for a moment that this was Robert Byrd’s outfit.
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:16:46 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: Beave Meister
To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
“I thought he said that it wasnt that he didnt like blacks but it was their culture.”
So, if blacks did not have their culture, he would have liked them?
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posted on
04/26/2014 3:17:47 PM PDT
by
sagar
To: Hot Tabasco
To: bboop
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.
To: Beave Meister
Where was this recorded? California has a "two party consent" law. She may find herself in legal trouble.
Calif. Recording Law
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:05:59 PM PDT
by
Duke C.
To: Beave Meister
Sterling’s young girlfriend is / was part Latin, part Negro. He wanted her to pass as white or a light-skinned Latina and not post pics of herself in the company of Negroes, including Earvin “AIDS” Johnson. Strange the old fart has / had a colored girlfriend who likely betrayed him, but he’s entitled to his choices & opinions and shouldn’t back down or apologize. Will only make it worse, with the race hucksters and leftist media swooping in to eat his vital organs.
To: Sarah Barracuda
Think Marge Schott. Former Cincinnati Reds owner...
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:15:02 PM PDT
by
BizBroker
(There is no "radical Islam", there is only Islam itself.)
To: Beave Meister
Actually Cliven Bundy was sitting in Sterling’s seat.
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
“I really dont get it.”
It’s about courage to speak the truth and not be controlled by political correctness, which is nothing more than old-fashioned fear.
To: BizBroker
Will MSNBC fire Al Sharpton over these comments: Larry Elder @larryelder 9s Boycott Clips? "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." --Sharpton Boycott MSNBC?
To: Duke C.
Where was this recorded? California has a "two party consent" law. She may find herself in legal trouble.Because of the content, she's immune.
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:30:27 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
“...isnt that illegal? You can tape someone without their consent?
I believe those laws vary from state to state.
But I’ve always wondered about people who were plotting to commit a crime, would it be illegal to record that, or would their own intended illegality trump that.
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:30:35 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: windcliff
Good lord,is that real?
It is VERY funny.
.
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posted on
04/26/2014 4:38:48 PM PDT
by
Mears
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