<div dir="ltr">Kareem Abdul Jabbar spoke my feelings. <br><blockquote>I loved this: <p>"What bothers me about this whole Donald Sterling affair isn’t just his racism. I’m bothered that everyone acts as if it’s a huge surprise. Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers season tickets. Really? All this other stuff I listed above has been going on for years and this ridiculous conversation with his girlfriend is what puts you over the edge? That’s the smoking gun? </p>
<p><br>He was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for years, preventing them from getting housing. It was public record. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation back then? <br>
... <br>Make no mistake: Donald Sterling is the villain of this story. But he’s just a handmaiden to the bigger evil. In our quest for social justice, we shouldn’t lose sight that racism is the true enemy. He’s just another jerk with more money than brains. <br>
</p><p>So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when his racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars." </p>
<p><a href="http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/">http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/</a></p><p>Janesta<br></p></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Crabtree <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moscowlocksmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">moscowlocksmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>The guy should be thanking his lucky stars that he wasn't illegally taped stating that he believed that marriage should be between a man and a women exclusively. They would be calling for a total confiscation of all his worldly goods and a summary execution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>g</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Paul Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Donald Sterling has now been banned for life from games and practices by the NBA and fined $2.5 million dollars. Why? Because he was recorded saying bad things about black people in a PRIVATE conversation he was having with his girlfriend. One that was very likely recorded illegally. Does this strike anyone here as being over-the-top? Or am I the only one not on the "OMG! He said bad things about black people!" bandwagon?<div class="">
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I hate that we have become a nation of nattering ninnies.<br>
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