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NAACP Willing to 'Forgive' Clippers' Donald Sterling After Yanking Award
ABC News ^ | April 28, 2014 | By Colleen Curry

Posted on 04/28/2014 4:47:26 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The NAACP said today they are still willing to work with Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling despite yanking an offer of a lifetime achievement award over an audio tape containing racist comments that Sterling allegedly made.

At a news conference today, NAACP Los Angeles president Leon Jenkins said that an audio recording that surfaced this weekend on TMZ, which purportedly had Sterling's voice recorded making racist comments, was "devastating."

But the organization would be open to talking to Sterling, with whom they've worked for nearly 20 years.

"God teaches us to forgive, and the way I look at it, after a sustained period of proof to the African American community that those words don't reflect his heart, I think there's room for forgiveness. I wouldn't be a Christian if I said there wasn't," Jenkins said.

"We are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African American students at UCLA, and so we are in preliminary discussions," Jenkins said. He also noted, however, they had not spoken since the scandal broke. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; clippers; donaldsterling; donsterling; losangeles; losangelesclippers; naacp; nba; rochellesterling; vanessastiviano
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Could prove to be interesting if someone could get a hold of the official NAACP “pecuniary penance price list”!


21 posted on 04/28/2014 5:15:45 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Watching MSM news readers pimping His Arrogance is like watching a dog eat its own vomit!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

But its gonna cost him...


22 posted on 04/28/2014 5:17:50 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Are Whites COLORED..?


23 posted on 04/28/2014 5:19:26 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: caver

Money for forgiveness. Nice philosophy.


24 posted on 04/28/2014 5:19:30 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"God teaches us to forgive, and the way I look at it, after a sustained period of proof to the African American community that those words don't reflect his heart, I think there's room for forgiveness. I wouldn't be a Christian if I said there wasn't," Jenkins said.

What about Paula Deen? Her words were from 20 years ago, but they still destroyed her.

Not rich enough, I guess.

-PJ

25 posted on 04/28/2014 5:22:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: windcliff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag


26 posted on 04/28/2014 5:22:48 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Ok, let me try to. Sort this garbage out. Some incredibly naive and stupi moronic white guy makes a lot of money and wants to be Jerry Buss. So he takes his money earned on the sweat of colored people and decides to buy himself an NBA FRANCHISE.

But because he's a complete idiot he doesn't realize that all he's bought are a bunch of illiterate negro thugs who have left a trail of illegitimate kids all across America, carry illegal guns, beat up women, and lust after ho's! They also can't play defense, shoot from downtown, and cause riots when they release their new sneakers that every negroid must have, even if they must kill to get them rather than pay 400 dollars.< p> So on an off-chance the owner openl complains about paying orangutan negroids millions of dollars to half-ass it on the court, that is when they're not in COURT! The reality is that NO ONE except cretins pay any attention to the NBA (Nothing But Asswipes) I suspect Cage Fighting and Hoarders have bigger audiences.< p> So the end result will be this. Jesse Jerkson will get 100,000,000 to cool things over. He'll split it with Sharpton. There will be faux race riots, LA will burn, looting will score big, thousands will die and then ESPN can do the retrospective video on white racism in a nothing to see here sport!

27 posted on 04/28/2014 5:27:40 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: skeeter

Oh yes. He will probably sell.


28 posted on 04/28/2014 5:32:34 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Wow...isn’t that like a form of blackmail?


29 posted on 04/28/2014 5:33:16 PM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3uipTO-4A


30 posted on 04/28/2014 5:33:24 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: caver

Same thing I was thinking.


31 posted on 04/28/2014 5:33:46 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Obamacare)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Did I just hear the checkbook open?


32 posted on 04/28/2014 5:46:12 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Fred Nerks

What we are seeing is the rise of the Black Nation inside of the USA. This is black nationalism.

The tape was a private discussion between Stirling and his “Girl Friend” about he preference for black men. He told her she could have them in provate but not to bring her spare boy friends to his games or to the team, Stirling was upset with her infidelity , telling her to keep it private. He spoke with emotion, and in rascist terms which were never meant to be public.

Now Stirling is being assassinated by the press, and black nationalist basket ball players are saying the NBA is a “black” league with 84% of the players being black. What if Wayne Gretsky come out and said the NHL was a white league? He would be crucified in the press.

The double standard is amazing and horribly unjust.

Stirling is an old man, a soon to be has been who clearly is not a racist, he has a girl friend who is a person of color.Being upset, he revealed his anger about his GF’s black friends.Hardly cause for crucifying the man. The LA Clippers are done as a team......kaput, not just because of Storling, but because of the press, which is polarizing the
people and ramping up black nationalism one more notch....it WILL eventually lead to civil unrest and perhaps a race war, if it continues.

Old ignorant rascists should not be used to increase polarization between blacks and whites in America.We should be too sophistiated to allow that. And we should have enough class to allow even racists to have their privacy, because if he has none, neither do any of us.


33 posted on 04/28/2014 6:00:03 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Brad from Tennessee

That’s awfully White of them.


34 posted on 04/28/2014 6:10:06 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
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To: Candor7

How can he be racist if he has a black girlfriend?

I guess it is like the guy from the KKK who just shot and killed the people recently in Kansas and it was reveled he was busted having sex with a black male prostitute.

Nothing makes much sense anymore.


35 posted on 04/28/2014 6:10:12 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Dear Mr. $terling,

We know what you $aid on tbo$e recording$ doe$ not reflect what truly i$ in your heart. We, the Lo$ Angele$ Chapter of the NAALCP, are open to meeting with you to $ee how we might re$olve thi$ i$$ue amicably. Plea$e call our office at your earlie$t convenience.

$incerely your$,
Ima H. Uck$ter


36 posted on 04/28/2014 7:31:36 PM PDT by twister881
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To: funfan
How can he be racist if he has a black girlfriend?

He could think he is racially superior to blacks (the classic definition of racism) and still think she is fun for a couple laps around the mattress.

37 posted on 04/28/2014 7:32:21 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Operation Shakedown is in effect.


38 posted on 04/28/2014 7:35:01 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: KarlInOhio

Agree. Thomas Jefferson, Strom Thurmond, Barack Obama, Sr.

Sterling deserves what’s coming to him. But while he personally despises Negroes, at the same time he’s shoveling millions into their bank accounts. The most rabid, virulent racists are the hucksters in the black community and in politics — Jesse Jackson, All Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, The New Black Panther Party, The Nation of Islam, Eric Holder, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama. They are far more dangerous than a shriveled up old rich Jew with the Jones for a mixed race whore. When are we going to ostracize them?


39 posted on 04/28/2014 7:42:56 PM PDT by twister881
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To: nickcarraway

“Don’t they have a lot to answer for, in giving an award to him?”

And hugh hewitt was doing his whole show on this, he had some black minister on, and I didn’t hear them mention this award once.

Now I’m not saying they didn’t discuss it because I didn’t hear all that much of the show.

But I would like to know why he was getting the award, I had read elsewhere that Sterling was kind of well known as a “bigot” I think was the word used, but it wasn’t clear to me exactly what that meant either.

The guy is slime, but it bothers me to see a person ruined by having a PRIVATE conversation revealed like this.

I read a piece on cuba the other day and the author said the worst thing about cuba was that people don’t even trust their own families.


40 posted on 04/28/2014 7:44:20 PM PDT by jocon307
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