By Rich Kozlovich
Let’s start out by saying Donald Tokowitz, now known as Donald Sterling, is a slime ball, but
not because of the claims about his alleged racism. He’s a slime ball because he treats everyone
equally bad. He clearly paid Elgin
Baylor far lower than he did a white executive, but did he do that because he
was being a racist or because he could get away with it because he “was paying
a poor black kid a lot of money”. Was he
merely defining the parameters for his negotiations because he understood Baylor
was negotiating from a weaker position than he, and the fact he was black was a
part of that situation. Was that fair?
According to whom? He certainly thought
it was, just as he thought it was fair to stick the white manager who replaced
Baylor for the money he was owed.
Baylor’s coaching career wasn’t one that sets the record
books on fire. He had a 86–135 record
with the New Orleans Jazz and had a 607 and 1153 record with the Clippers,
where was the team’s vice president of basketball operations - for 22 years. Wow, the racism must have been unbearable
because he could only stand it until he was 74 years old. Sure, in the case with Baylor it was about money and race - but was it about money
and racism?
Although the race
baiters would tell everyone otherwise, there is a difference, just as it was
when he stiffed the white manager. The
more you read about “Sterling” the more you realize he was more than willing to
stiff everyone, including his wife. Is
he a racist? I don’t think so. He just
doesn’t like blacks. Even though race
baiters will say it all the same thing, it isn’t! Sterling is an equal opportunity discriminator. But is this really isn’t about Sterling and
his views? We shall see.
April 29, 2014 By Harry Siegel
How generous of
this modern-day plantation owner, who, according to NBA great and longtime team
executive Elgin Baylor, would bring women into the locker room to see players
showering, saying things like “look at these beautiful black bodies.” New NBA Commissioner Adam Silver did the
right thing both morally and tactically by heeding The News’ front-page advice
Tuesday and booting this bum, whose obscene behavior both as a landlord and in
his 33 years owning the Clippers has been well documented, after leaked
recordings of him waxing racist to his young mistress sparked widespread
outrage..... A league where the 360 or so athletes who, in fact, make the game,
split its proceeds about 50-50 with ownership.......I doubt most NBA owners are
blatant racists who privately spew the same sort of bile as Sterling. I’m sure,
though, that he’s not the only owner whose private thoughts are publicly toxic
— and that others share his precisely backward view that they make the game,
and provide for their players. Wealthy men, especially the sort inclined to
purchase sports teams, tend to think highly of their own contributions.....LeBron
James.....put it plainly: “There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league.” But for decades, there definitively was room
for him.....To Read More.....My Take – This is another whine about ownership being too white and as a result it’s unfair to be paid millions of dollars a year to play children’s games while claiming they’re being disrespected by these white owners and executives because it’s like a plantation. I can remember nine years ago when Latrelle Sprewell refused a $21-million three-year contract because it wasn’t enough to feed his children. Some plantation!
Then there’s LeBron James claiming “There is
no room for Donald Sterling in our league” because he says unpleasant things. I have
to ask; who are these “our” he’s talking about.
If he and his fellow players don’t own stock in one of these teams then
they’re just way overpaid and way over pampered hired help. And if that’s the case, it isn’t his or the
other players league.
Now……If he does own stock then I want him
barred for life from basketball and forced to sell his stock because he told
the world he hated Cleveland. I’m offended and want him barred for life. I don’t
even like or watch basketball, but clearly this an issue of discrimination, and
as a result there’s no room for Lebron in my league. Oh…I don’t own any stock either by the way!
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 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.”
My Take – What absolute
hypocrisy, but UCLA isn’t alone as the following articles demonstrate!
"We have a high tolerance for racism." As the fallout continued regarding the NBA’s decision to ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life based on racist comments made in private and leaked on tape, Jesse Jackson showed up on court before Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.
Earlier in the
day, race-baiter extraordinaire Jackson appeared
at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where he stated
that Sterling’s comments showed “why we need affirmative action. People in high
places have no will toward goodness unless the law is there to force it.”
Jackson continued by stating that Sterling “should apologize, he should resign
and he should sell the team. We have a high tolerance for racism. His past is
very well known. It took this over-the-hill statement…to get to this point.” .
In 2008,
Jackson was caught on tape
stating that he would like to “cut off [President Obama’s] nuts” for “talking
down to black people…telling n****** how to behave.” In the 1980s, Jackson
referred to New York City as “Hymietown.” He called Ward Connerly of the California
Board of Regents a “house slave” and “puppet of the white man,” and according
to James Mtume, stated in 2008 that Barack Obama was a “half-breed
n*****.” ………
April 30, 2014
Several civil rights organizations are applauding the NBA for its lifetime ban of Clippers owner Donald Sterling because of racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation. However, those groups still want to meet with NBA commissioner Adam Silver to discuss diversity in the executive ranks of the professional basketball league and to figure out ways to ensure such situations don’t happen again…..But Sterling’s suspension isn’t enough, the groups said, calling for Silver to meet with them to ensure Sterling “remains an anomaly among the owners and executives in the league.”…….The groups want Silver to talk with them about diversifying the executive ranks of the NBA, similar to efforts in other sports……the NAACP’s Los Angeles chapter withdrew its decision to give Sterling a lifetime achievement award, and returned money he donated……He had been chosen to receive the award because of his long history of donating to minority charities and giving game tickets to inner city children. The NAACP has honored Sterling several times in the past…….
In wake of Sterling scandal, NAACP leader is under scrutiny
By Angel Jennings
The head of the
Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP is coming under scrutiny in the wake of the
organization's decision to give awards to Donald Sterling. The group granted Sterling an award in 2009, the same year the real
estate magnate and L.A. Clippers owner paid $2.73 million to settle U.S.
government claims that he refused to rent his apartments to Latinos and blacks
in Koreatown. The chapter was set to give Sterling a second award when a
recording emerged in which a man said to be Sterling asked a female friend not
to publicly associate with African Americans. Leon Jenkins, president
of the NAACP branch, has been a focus of attention in recent days. While a Detroit
judge, Jenkins in 1988 was indicted on federal bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud
and racketeering charges, according records from the State Bar of California.
Authorities at
the time alleged that Jenkins received gifts from those who appeared in his
court and committed perjury, the records show. He was acquitted of criminal
charges. But in 1994 the Michigan Supreme Court disbarred him, finding
"overwhelming evidence" that Jenkins "sold his office and his
public trust," according to the bar records……. The chapter was prepared to
honor Sterling at a gala in May. Newspaper ads for the event recently ran
featuring photos of Sterling and Jenkins with the headline: "Two leaders.
One unprecedented event." In the
wake of the controversy, an online
petition was launched to suspend the L.A. chapter……
NBA owners to hold 1st discussions on Sterling
Apr 30, 2014NBA owners to hold 1st discussions on Sterling
The NBA owners' advisory/finance committee will hold a meeting Thursday to discuss the next steps in the removal of Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. The 10-member committee will have a conference call two days after Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life from the league and fined him $2.5 million for making racist comments. Silver also said he would urge owners to use their power to force Sterling to sell the team. That would require the support of three-fourths of the league's owners in a vote. Silver said Tuesday during a news conference that he was confident he had the votes, which appears true given the numerous statements of support that were released by teams......
April 29, 2014
On Tuesday, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation, but what comes next? The other NBA owners need a 75 percent vote to have Donald Sterling removed as owner.
But Detroit
News columnist and 97-1 The Ticket co-host Terry Foster wonders if the other
owners may be worried about their own skeletons in their closets.......The one
thing about Donald Sterling, he loves to sue people, so I think the other
owners have to be careful, they definitely don’t want things coming out of
their closet,”.....Clipper coach Doc Rivers and the players are hypocrites
because they knew exactly what Sterling was all about when they signed their
contracts. “They knew what he stood for
before, don’t be surprised, don’t be outraged because you signed a contract to
work for this man and the whole league knew what he was about.”......
April 29, 2014
LA source is saying that current Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who was banned from the NBA for life by Commissioner Adam Silver earlier Tuesday, has said that he has no intention to sell the team…… “Effective immediately, I am banning Mr. Sterling for life with any association with the Clippers organization or the NBA,” Commissioner Silver said in the press conference on Tuesday. “… As for Mr. Sterling’s ownership interest in the Clippers, I will urge the Board of Governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything in my power to ensure that happens.”……
By Jack Cashill
As Esquire writer Charles Pierce and others have
commented in the wake of Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s sudden notoriety,
Sterling’s lady friend V. Stiviano “appears to have James O’Keefe’d him.” Pierce is referring to the work of
imaginative young journalist James O’Keefe. Not yet 30, O’Keefe has pioneered
the art of quietly recording the damning words of a range of duplicitous
individuals – from ACORN workers to NPR executives to union honchos to campaign
officials – and exposing those words to the light……O’Keefe, on the other hand,
has largely confined his work to states with one-party consent laws. When
working in two-party states like California, he has restricted his targets to
public subsidized entities like Planned Parenthood and ACORN.
Yet when O’Keefe first exposed the willingness of multiple
ACORN offices to facilitate the criminal schemes he posed, the media turned
their guns not on ACORN but on O’Keefe. To
be sure, no good case can be made for Sterling’s confused and confusing remarks
about race. But encouraging an individual to traffic in underage sex slaves
from El Salvador would seem to be a somewhat graver offense…….According to the
Times, O’Keefe’s was just another effort “to dig up dirt” on individuals and
“trumpet” that dirt on talk radio. He even unearthed the inevitable outraged
liberal to denounce O’Keefe’s tactics as “McCarthyite.
“The NBA is now on a slippery slope,” says Bright and then asks, “If illegal recordings and accusations without historical basis within the league are enough to get you banned as an owner, who is next?”
Unfortunately, it is not just the NBA that is on that
slippery slope. The fact that Sterling was scheduled to receive a lifetime
achievement award at an NAACP event honoring Al Sharpton as “man of the year”
shows just how corrupt is the Democrat-media-civil rights establishment that
condemns Sterling. The late blue-collar philosopher Eric Hoffer had it all
figured out years ago. Said Hoffer for the ages: “Every great cause begins as a
movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
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