Posted on 04/30/2014 3:17:10 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A FEW thoughts on the Donald Sterling scandal....
....My sympathy for Sterling is nonexistent. His racist remarks are odious, and they couldn’t have come as a shock to anyone who has followed his career. Yet the most alarming part of this story has less to do with basketball or the racial prejudices of an 80-year-old plutocrat than with what it says about the rapidly disappearing presumption that things we say in our personal lives will stay personal.
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LOL - that's what men think. I don't think you'd find many women who would think that way.
Sex is a big part of a relationship for men. Romance is the big component for women.
Let’s try recording locker room talk and then see how many brothers get banned for “racist” jive.-—Or would recording them without their knowledge be illegal?/s
Wall Street: Biggest quarter ever for Victims' Industry, "Unbelievable!" Concerns surface as Victims' Industry companies refuse to sell shares to whites. "Not racism," says the Street. Prices could go up tenfold, earnings even more.
Celebrating 100 years!
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
Punishing people for exercising their First Amendment rights flies in the face of the meaning of the First Amendment.
What rights are inviolable then?
Maybe there is some clause in the “NBA Owners Agreement” wherein he surrendered his Rights, but is such a clause legal in a business contract? Probably not.
All party consent required for recording surrendered, too?
Expectation of privacy in private conversations surrendered, too?
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts, that when the smoke clears we will find out that little Miss Shanktail goaded him with her behavior and set him up for someone else to buy him out — maybe Magic Johnson?
The Old Testament is rife with tales of the downfall of almost every great man because of little Ms. Skanktails... some who wanted to even cost you your soul, not just a basketball team! But, we never seem to learn.
Ironic, since the 'right to privacy' is the linchpin of the left's most sacred cow ... abortion.
Did you read the response of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? A remarkably measured and thoughtful piece. He is bothered, if course, by the racism but also deeply disturbed by the invasion of privacy.
And he is a black man who used to work for the Clippers.
Yep, I resorted to Name Calling just like Sterling and got removed just like he did! This is not right is it? I did this all wrong because you guys missed my point. This is not about legal or illegal. This is about Jim's moderator having the authority to remove my comment because I'm in Jim's club and I've agreed to the club rules and basically broke them. (Are you seeing my point now?)
Sterling was in the NBA club, they have decided to kick his sorry racist ass out because he broke the rules. The NBA did not seek his private conversation, but he was the one who recorded it and he was the one who made racist remarks. Just because what he said was private doesn't make his comment less racist. The NBA has not only the RIGHT to kick him out, but the obligation because tolerating racism is wrong. Our constitution spirit does not allow for it.
How ironic my post gets removed (as planned, sorry clearcase_guy.) when most of you are trying to argue freedom of opinion here without consequences.
You maybe have the FREEDOM to think and speak like you want, but you also have to take the responsibility for what you say private or public.
Yes, definitely. Isn’t saying, “Don’t bring black people to my game,” racist?
We know this guy has a pattern, yes—he’s racist. Shall we have a stoning?
I thinking banning him for life from the NBA is the appropriate response. I'll agree anything other than that goes overboard. But...keeping him around as an owner would be BAD for the NBA. Who would play for him knowing who this guy is, would you?
Play for him? No. I wouldn't play for any of the teams and further I wouldn't attend any of most professional sports games of any sort. People are getting too wrapped up in the games and are doing really stupid stuff after the game ends.
I am more concerned that the TSA is now authorized and encouraged to go around to any business on airport property and subject you and your vehicle to a TSA search. Sitting at your desk doing your job and TSA can come and take you out for a search. What's the point? Certainly there are things at these businesses that would never be allowed onto a plane, so why search a person when tools and such that could be harmful are accessible to them to carry out their jobs?
Some racist, rich, old man that has gone 80 years being the same person he's always been and suddenly has the rage of the country after a whore leads him on in a private conversation...I'd say his ego and this wench is pretty good punishment. He will have lost most any friend he ever had, nobody will want to be around him. He will die the same as any of us and at 80, that isn't too far off for him.
I just can't find huge anger over the hurtful words of an old man-- disgust, yes. Words can't do to me or others what our government is trying to do to us all and it's a helluva alot more harmful and dangerous than ugly, hurtful words.
You can't even say "sexual preference" now without offending some homosexuals because the militants and MSM are trying to force people to accept being gay is not a choice, but genetic. This is where the war will be lost or won by conservatives, so we need to be BETTER prepared to fight this cultural insurrection.
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