racism is dead ... so they say
POSTED BY: 1kiki
UPDATED: Thursday, June 25, 2026 12:55
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notice the applause - because slavery is apparently about taking people's choices away, not buying, owning and selling people as property
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Donald Sterling To Receive NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award
Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner who was reportedly caught on tape making racist comments to his girlfriend, is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP in May, according to the organization's website.
Or, he WAS , until this latest fiasco.
But even BEFORE his ( illegally ? ) taped remarks, this guy had a track record of racist views and actions.
So, how much $ had he given to the naacp to buy their blessing?
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Preserving this weasel for posterity:
"Mr. Sterling is emphatic that what is reflected on that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs or feelings. Because, apparently, someone else's brain was moving his lips. It is the antithesis of who he is, what he believes and how he has lived his life. He feels terrible that such sentiments are being attributed to him because, even though they came out of his mouth, they must have been someone else's words and apologizes to anyone who might have been hurt by them.
"He is also upset and apologizes for sentiments attributed to him about Earvin Johnson. He has long considered Magic a friend who really should not be seen IN PUBLIC with his family or REAL friends and has only the utmost respect and admiration for him -- both in terms of who he is and what he has achieved. We are investigating this matter to try and figure out damage control."
OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
"You, who live in any kind of comfort or convenience, do not know how these people can survive these things, do you? They will endure because there is no immediate escape from endurance. Some will die, the rest must live."
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Pretty sure your effort isn't required here.
Thanks bunches though.
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Didja see the thing about the black soccer player? Some fan threw a banana at him-- a racist insult, it implies, "You're a monkey." So he picked it up, peeled it, took a bite, and then kicked the ball.
We are all monkeys, as he said.
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Sterling has done far worse before. -- www.vox.com/cards/donald-sterling/what-other-awful-things-has-sterling
-done-in-the-past
Sterling is a major advertiser in the LA Times. He gives away lots of money, and when he does he makes sure everyone knows about it by purchasing ads thanking himself for his good deeds. From the amateur looks of it, he does his own Photoshopping for the ads. -- http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/search/label/Donald%20Sterling
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Interestingly, Kiki...as I was driving home from running the dogs this morning, and heard some of the shit about Sterling on the radio, my thoughts turned to posting pretty much exactly what you did about both him and Bundy, with a similar title. Given how we've discussed this here before, and how often some of our right wingers adamantly insist racism IS "essentially" dead, it seemed apropos. Thank you for saving me the trouble.
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I just listened to the tape. Wow. Amazing. The whole thing revolves, for him, around his girlfriend posting pictures of herself and "black people" on Instagram, or bringing them to the games. SHE's black/latino, and he says she can do anything she wants with black people PRIVATELY, but on Instagram and at his games... Quote:
…. that recording is not consistent with, nor does it reflect his views, beliefs or feelings…
Then what DOES it reflect, I wonder? Quote:
…attributed to him…
How does one "attribute" words that come out of a person's mouth? Very weird…
The convolutions of his thinking completely, absolutely escape me...
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I see The Donald says Sterling was "set up" by the girlfriend from hell: "It's terrible. He got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend, let's face it," Trump said on Fox & Friends. ( http://politix.topix.com/story/11770-this-celebrity-says-donald-sterli
ng-isnt-the-only-one-to-blame-in-race-remarks-fiasco)
How does one get "set up" into saying things like this:Quote:
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?”
“You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”
Don’t put him [Johnson] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” http://nba.si.com/2014/04/26/donald-sterling-nba-investigation-racist-
comments-clippers/
And Rushbo is sure Sterling's only 'in trouble' because he didn't donate enough to Obama: "...this guy's a big Democrat. The only reason he's in trouble right now is he did not give enough money to Obama." ( http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/04/28/mock_shock_donald_sterlin
g_is_a_typical_hollywood_racist_and_everyone_knew_it)
Except, he isn't. According to the Los Angeles Board of Elections, Sterling is a registered Republican, who first registered in California in 1974. The state database's records have listed him as a Republican since 2002. He voted in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/28/donald-sterl
ing-is-a-republican-and-has-given-money-to-democrats-this-does-nothing-to-explain-his-history-of-discrimination/)
Then there's Bill Kristol, who thinks everyone's going "hysterical" over what Sterling said: "I mean, everyone goes hysterical over two or three sentences, but let's look at the actual deeds of people." ( http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/04/of-course-donald-trump-and-ale
x-jones-have-joined-the-defenders-of-donald-sterling/361319/)
Well, let's see, while I saw a lot of anger and disgust from quite a few people, I must have missed the "hysteria". And from what I read, it's a bit more than two or three sentences, but let's not quibble. Let's look at "deeds":Quote:
In 2009, Sterling, who also owns a slew of apartment buildings in the Los Angeles area, agreed to pay $2.725 million settlement — the largest monetary payment ever obtained by the Department of Justice — to settle a housing discrimination suit. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/November/09-crt-1187.html
That's a start, I guess...and there's the employment discrimination lawsuit by the former longtime Clippers executive, wherein Sterling allegedly said he wanted to fill his team with "poor black boys from the South and a white head coach". But of course, that's just words again... Or there's all the past racist behavior, which the League has carefully ignored, at http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-sterling-racist-history-2014-4
Oh, and then of course Alex Jones, over there at Infowars, wants to see Sterling convicted in a court of law as a racist before anyone calls him one: "Keep in mind Sterling is so far an alleged racist". ( http://www.infowars.com/obama-sharpton-magic-johnson-gang-up-on-nba-ow
ner-sterling/) How does one become a "proven" racist (or would that be "convicted" racist I guess), since saying racist things isn't illegal, I wonder?
The contortions of these people are amazing...ridiculous, but amazing.
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
We are all monkeys, as he said.
Or , as Simon put it...
" You're like a trained ape, with out the training "
Ain't we just!
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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