Posted on 04/29/2014 5:24:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Researchers at UCLA will return a portion of a $3 million pledge that Clippers owner Donald Sterling made to support kidney research, school officials announced Tuesday.
The university is returning the initial $425,000 payment from the Donald T. Sterling Foundation made earlier this month, and will not accept the balance of the money, calling the comments he made in a recorded conversation “divisive and hurtful,” according to spokesperson Phil Hampton.
Dr. Ira Kurtz, a professor of medicine in UCLA’s Division of Nephrology was awarded the gift earlier this month to fund research on the structural properties of key proteins in the kidney that affect its function in health and disease.
KNX 1070′s Ed Mertz reports the project’s ultimate goal is to aid in the development of drugs to treat patients with kidney disorders.
The school issued the following statement: “Mr. Sterling’s divisive and hurtful comments demonstrate that he does not share UCLA’s core values as a public university that fosters diversity, inclusion and respect. For those reasons, UCLA has decided to return Mr. Sterling’s initial payment of $425,000 and reject the remainder of a $3 million pledge he recently made to support basic kidney research by the UCLA Division of Nephrology.”
UCLA officials also addressed inquiries about an advertisement that appeared in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times “falsely suggesting that it was UCLA publicly thanking him for the gift.”
The ad was placed by Sterling, not the university, according to Hampton.
UCLA hates people with kidney disease
Hey Donald, I’ll take it!
I’ll show that sergeant, I won’t eat.
How “hurtful” is it going to be if that money would have made a difference in kidney research? How hurtful to those that would have benefited?
Wow. This man is being shunned.
Isn’t there a high rate of kidney disease in black community? this is just stupid
did he murder someone?...no
did he rape someone?...no
this culture of ours....
we're in a dicktatorship and we're not supposed to speak our opinions....
That’ll teach him.
He can use it to pay his fine.
UCLA is kidney beans.
More PC stupidity on display. This time it’ll cost some people their lives.
We always hear this kind of crap from liberal organizations and politicians. If you think these maggots actually give any of this money back to their maggot donors, you need to buy a bridge. Once you throw money in a sewer, it’s gone and you aren’t getting it back no matter who you offend.
UCLA hates black people with kidney disease
and kidney disease affects black people in huge numbers....that’ll show em UCLA...let more of them die....geez the stupidity...
This is really, really stupid.
You just watch..if ANY NBA owner EVER is caught on tape or comes out for traditional marriage, the same thing will happen to him. Not agreeing with anything that Sterling said, Ive always known him to be a giant douche bag, but this is ridiculous. He said stupid things to a gold digger, he should have known better, but he did not murder anyone..when you go against the liberal mindset this is what happens to you, you lose your job, your dignity, your livelihood
I know a few threads on this have said this is not a freedom of speech issue as such, because government is not denying him any rights here.
Is this a reflection of what a politically correct world we live in? Anybody who says anything which can be perceived as dissing officially recognized grievance groups, will be targeted for destruction.
Then there is the issue of consequences for exercising freedom of speech. Government is not going to punish him, but others are going to.
Can’t they just execute Sterling and get it over with?
I guess the only thing left for the only guy in America who ever made racially insensitive statements to do is commit suicide.
The God of Politically Correct must have a sacrifice every now and then to remind Americans what a horribly racist, homophobic, sexist country we are. (sarcasm)
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