Posted on 05/22/2014 7:51:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban talked about the NBA's decision to ban Donald Sterling and force him to sell the Clippers in a new interview at Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Nashville.
While he acknowledged that NBA commissioner Adam Silver "had to do it," he reiterated his statement that forcing Sterling to sell the team for making racist comments is "a slippery slope."
In a supplemental interview on Inc.com, he said that everyone, including himself, holds prejudices:
"We're all prejudiced in one way or the other. If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And on that side of the street there's a guy who has tattoos all over his face — white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere — I'm walking back to the other side of the street ... I know that I'm not perfect. I know I live in a glass house and it's not appropriate for me to throw stones."
Instead of kicking people to the curb, Cuban says those with racist or bigoted views should be rehabilitated with things like sensitivity training:
"It's part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road. It does my company no good, it does my customers no good, it does society no good if my response to somebody and their racism or bigotry is to say, 'It's not right for you to be here, go take your attitude somewhere else.'"
Cuban wasn't talking strictly in the context of the Sterling issue here, but his comments certainly apply to what's going on with the disgraced Clippers owner.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
If you described someone as having discriminating taste, it would be a compliment.
But wouldn’t that be acceptable for elitists and not for common folks? /s
He is still a leftist of course.
I am not racist or bigoted, I simply use discretion.
leaners...
“If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street.”
Seeing as black males are STATISTICALLY almost 10 times more likely than white males to commit a violent crime this is a perfectly logical survival strategy.
BUT THEN as Orwell said “During times of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” And we are in such a time.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
( Jesse Jackson 27 November 1993).
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