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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Levenson Isn’t a Racist, He’s a Businessman
TIME ^ | 09/08/2014 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted on 09/08/2014 1:23:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: nickcarraway

Would you take your young wife and preteen son to a game that was 90% black?

Look - See:

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/07/Gang-of-Black-Teens-Chanting-Fan-Mob-Beat-Memphis-Grocery-Store-Employee-Customer


41 posted on 09/08/2014 2:30:31 PM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: nickcarraway

if you really did see reality, you wouldn’t have written your last number of posts about this subject.


42 posted on 09/08/2014 2:30:43 PM PDT by roofgoat
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To: dfwgator

“Maybe we can get Jerry Jones to write a racist email.”

I’m sure he has. And at the right time those emails will come to light.

Racist emails with comments like...

“I’m not a fan of collard greens”

“I don’t like the new JayZ CD”.

“The President is playing too much golf”


43 posted on 09/08/2014 2:35:09 PM PDT by roofgoat
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To: SeekAndFind
Muhammad Ali gets mad when they call him Cassius Clay...

Cassius Clay was a great American and a great Republican.

I admire his daughter as well. While she campaigned for women's suffrage, she was opposed to a Constitutional amendment to achieve it. She believed the franchise was a state issue, and that women's suffrage should have been achieved on a state-by-state basis.

44 posted on 09/08/2014 2:37:28 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: GOPJ

Yes, I would. Enjoy your closet.


45 posted on 09/08/2014 2:37:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree. Email was all about an owner trying to figure out why they aren’t selling more tickets. It wasn’t racist. He was laying out the facts.


46 posted on 09/08/2014 2:41:30 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: nickcarraway
Nick, I think you misread Levenson's email. He isn't trying to get rid of any paying customers, but lamenting the low number of season ticket sales and empty seats. His market analysis reveals that the staple demographic of pro sports ticket buyers (white males aged 35-55) is underrepresented at Atlanta Hawks games and that their absence is hurting the franchise.

From my experience, Levenson correctly assesses that the overall Hawks game experience is aimed solely at black fans and is not attractive to the white males that are largely missing from the stands. It's not because white males are afraid to go to a Hawks game, but because it's just not a pleasant experience for most whites and they just don't want to go. It is an entirely different culture from mine, and not an attractive one at that. I am simply not interested. Levenson hit the nail on the head.

47 posted on 09/08/2014 2:49:15 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: SeekAndFind

A reasonable muslim?

Where would he come down if sharia came to the fore?


48 posted on 09/08/2014 2:53:47 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Zionist Conspirator

RE: Cassius Clay was a great American and a great Republican.

It’s ironic that Muhammad Ali would call being named after a Kentucky planter and politician who worked for abolition of slavery as having a “slave name”.


49 posted on 09/08/2014 2:54:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: onedoug

RE: A reasonable muslim?

I have a very strong feeling that this Muslim does not know the Koran very well.

Which in my opinion, is a GOOD THING.

The farther a Muslim is from the book, the more reasonable he becomes and vice versa.


50 posted on 09/08/2014 2:57:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe he’s just opening the market to a billion dollar deal???


51 posted on 09/08/2014 3:04:01 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: nickcarraway
Wanting to attract a wider audience is understandable. Blaming you ACTUAL paying customers is STUPID. Show me one business-owning Freeper who would do that. This guy has zero understanding of business.

Hell, in most cases his so called paying customers can't read...so they won't know! This guy is smart like a fox.....

52 posted on 09/08/2014 3:47:43 PM PDT by StraysDaddy (Don't call me a racist....I'm not a fan of Joe the fool either....)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Dont you mean Lew Alcindor?


53 posted on 09/08/2014 4:31:51 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

You mean Roger Murdock?


54 posted on 09/08/2014 4:32:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

You obviously have a lot of fight in you, but only for the wrong people.


55 posted on 09/08/2014 4:39:42 PM PDT by Williams
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To: dfwgator

Roger roger whats the vector Victor?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=ykAOVObnOtLJgwSM8IH4Cw&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DShrV43xB6yY&cd=1&ved=0CB0QtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNGack0X96QuMoAc2tawvvCdCL6oiA


56 posted on 09/08/2014 4:50:18 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: EveningStar

The Hawks are a perennial playoff team and constantly near the bottom in attendance. Levenson will take the money and lol all the way to the bank all the while patting himself on the back for copping to his white guilt. You can not make this stuff up! :-)


57 posted on 09/08/2014 6:03:02 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07; SeekAndFind

Forbes has Levenson paying 208 million for the team in 2004. The valuation now is supposedly 425 million.


58 posted on 09/08/2014 8:59:02 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rockpile

Whatever it is, I don’t think he’s going to get the jackpot that Donald Sterling got.

... And if he does, you’ll see more team owners self confessing to be racists.


59 posted on 09/09/2014 5:37:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: ro_dreaming

I thought of that, but I figure if it’s ok to call Cassius Clay Ali, Kareem can be called whatever he wants, too.


60 posted on 09/09/2014 6:23:07 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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