By Debbie Schlussel
In the wake of this week’s NBA proposed lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine for
Donald Sterling, a longtime reader reminded me that I’d written about another
NBA owner, a Black man, who held a party in which Whites were refused entry and
turned away. And, yet, the NBA did nothing.
As I’ve already pointed out, Black racism and bigotry against Whites, Jews,
Mormons, and gays is tolerated by the NBA. But a private racist conversation by
a White owner is not. And here is an instance of a Black then-NBA owner whose
public, deliberate racism was tolerated and ignored. Jay-Z a/k/a Shawn Carter
was an owner of the Brooklyn Nets, an NBA Team, from 2003 through mid-April
2013. But, as I noted on this site, in February 2010, Jay-Z held a lavish party
at the Merah club in central London, and banned White people from attending……Bouncers
were instructed to refuse entry to Whites……To Read More…..
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