Donald Sterling is a Democrat

Discussion in 'Politics' started by CaptainObvious, Apr 27, 2014.

  1. jem

    jem

    I can tell you from my limited time in LA. fat old scaly guys with hot young women / prostitutes is pretty normal in expensive L.A. restaurants and bars. It seems to be part of the culture there more than anywhere else. (except congressional offices.)
     
    #141     Apr 30, 2014
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    CNN: The NAACP needs to sit down
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/opinion/granderson-naacp-sterling/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

    The NAACP needs to sit down.

    Though it's debatable how effective a punishment Donald Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA will be -- considering that for the time being, he still owns and thus profits from the L.A. Clippers -- the one voice that should not be involved in this discussion is that of the NAACP. Not after news that the Los Angeles chapter was prepared to bestow upon the disgraced Sterling -- whose racist behavior has long been known -- a second lifetime achievement award next month. (The offer, not surprisingly, has been withdrawn.)

    On Tuesday, after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought down punishment on Sterling, the NAACP added its voice to a joint statement with the National Urban League, the National Action Network and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation that said "Sterling's long-established pattern of bigotry and racist comments have not been a secret in the NBA ... yet until now, they have been tolerated and met with a gentle hand and a blind eye."

    Say what?

    Tax records accessed on CitizenAudit.org, according to an article in the Huffington Post, revealed that the NAACP's L.A. branch had been party to the sanitizing of Sterling's legacy. How? The group has received $45,000 from Sterling's foundations, which, given the real-estate mogul's net worth of nearly $2 billion, is peanuts.

    The phrase "sell out" is one that gets tossed around, but for some reason, it doesn't quite cover the NAACP's L.A. chapter in this case.

    The first time Sterling was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the group was in the midst of a lawsuit for housing discrimination based upon race. To decide to honor him with the award a second time, after he had paid millions to settle multiple discrimination suits, after learning that he allegedly said that "all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean" and "Mexicans ... just sit around and smoke and drink all day ... so we have to get them out of here," is not selling out.

    Selling out makes financial sense.


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    #142     Apr 30, 2014
  3. I am personally offended by Mr Sterlings insensitive comments.


    lololololololololololoololololololololololoolololololololololololololololoololololololoolololololo

    I only have one problem with Mr S.

    That he hooked up with that skank

    Very bad judgement

    Sorry if Im just repeating what was already said, I see others noticed this whole thing don't smell right.

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    He could have bought better with 3 cereal boxtops on any streetcorner , and he can afford a LOT better.
     
    #143     Apr 30, 2014
  4. fhl

    fhl

    #144     May 1, 2014
  5. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    I said it before and I will again. Eventually, all these racist claims will end up numbing us to the idea of it, and all the race card players will eventually screw themselves as people just give up on it.
     
    #145     May 1, 2014
  6. Ricter

    Ricter

    What "claim" are you referring to?
     
    #146     May 1, 2014
  7. I was wondering the same thing.
     
    #147     May 1, 2014
  8. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Dear dumb and dumber,
    He said claims not claim.
    As in all the race card nonsense we're constantly bombarded with.
     
    #148     May 1, 2014
  9. Ricter

    Ricter

    Just like the delight you righties feel when Obama appears to be making a foreign policy error which hurts America.
     
    #149     May 1, 2014
  10. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    No rectum, apples to oranges.
    Obama IS hurting America. "Racist" words hurt no one.
     
    #150     May 1, 2014