The Magic Johnson Instagram photo that began the Donald Sterling racist freak out:

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The Magic Johnson Instagram photo that began the Donald Sterling racist freak out:
8:04 AM - 27 Apr 2014

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That Damn Calvin. @phive0phor
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Just waiting for Donald Sterling to say, "I'm not a racist. Why, some of my best friends are not allowed to come to Clippers games!"
4:59 PM - 26 Apr 2014
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Complete transcript of LeBron's response on Donald Sterling. So powerful. So raw. (Read to very last sentence)

What are your thoughts on Donald Sterling’s comments?

“If the reports are true, it’s unacceptable.

It’s unacceptable in our league. It doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, Hispanic, whatever, all across the races. It’s unacceptable and as a commissioner in our league, they have to make a stand, and they have to be very aggressive with it. I don’t know what it’s going to be, but you just can’t have that in our league. We’re the model citizens of all sports around the world and because we’re the most recognizable, I mean, it figures. You see us all the time, you see our logos, you see our players, and for an owner to come out and say the things that he said, it’s very disrespectful, it’s very appalling and one of my best friends and dear friends plays on his team in Chris Paul and I haven’t had an opportunity to talk to him but I can only imagine what’s going through his head.”

Continued..
http://blogs.herald.com/miami_heat/2014/04/complete-transcript-of-lebrons-response-on-donald-sterling-so-powerful-so-raw-read-to-very-last-sent.html

TOD

[okaawhatever]

1. Michael Jordan, who always stays away from social issues and commenting publicly on things

like this has even spoken out. On top of being a racist, Sterling is just a wackadoo. Even if you could take the racism out of that man, he still wouldn't be right.

[Cha]

2. Really.. that's interesting about Michael Jordon. I'm going

to go find out what he said about it.

thanks okaawhatever~

[Mosby]

6. jordan quote

Jordan, now the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, released a statement Sunday addressing the matter. He said that as an owner, "I'm completely disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views."

As a former player, Jordan says "I'm completely outraged."

Jordan said he is confident that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver will investigate the matter fully and "take appropriate action quickly."

"There is no room in the NBA — or anywhere else — for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed," Jordan said. "I am appalled that this type of ignorance still exists within our country and at the highest levels of our sport. In a league where the majority of players are African-American, we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level."

I think the team owners might be able to make him sell his team but I'm not sure.

[Cha]

9. Thank you for this, Mosby.. An Excellent statement from Michael Jordon!

I think I read there was a precident for a team owner having to sell or something.. let me see if I can find that again.

[Mosby]

23. you might be thinking of marge schott.

[Cha]

26. I was.. thanks, but I couldn't remember the name until you told me.. interesting article..

Donald Sterling evokes Marge Schott memories

"We have seen Donald Sterling before. The Los Angeles Clippers owner is entirely familiar to us. He looks like the woman who sat in the front row behind the home dugout at Riverfront Stadium.

He is old, rich, public and powerful and for some reason, people pay attention to him. Same as the woman who signed pawprints on scorecards. I don't know if Sterling feels his wealth isolates him from civility, or if he just refuses to know any better. Having dealt with Marge Schott for a decade, I'd suggest she embodied the latter.

Marge was recklessly clueless, and didn't give a damn if you knew it. Marge didn't limit her ugliness to blacks. She spread it like buckshot. Schott offended everyone from scouts to Jews, gays to blacks. The litany of her indiscretions was comprehensive and impressive. No need to amplify here. You remember what she said."

MOre..
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2014/04/27/clippers-owner-evokes-marge-schott-memories/8284791/

[Cha]

3. K

[sheshe2]

4. DS's opinion is BS!!!!1!

Nerdy Wonka
April 27, 2014 at 4:28 pm



The Obama Diary

Cha~

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8. UnFreakingReal, she! I say the Players make

the game. If he wants to be that way about it.

Mahalo she~

[tarheelsunc]

21. No question.

People aren't going to the Staples Center or the American Airlines Arena because Donald Sterling owns the team. But if they trade away Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, they'll definitely suffer from poor attendance just like they did before those two were on the team. If the owners really made the game, like Sterling seems to think, they'd never negotiate with the players' union at all, because they could just pick random guys up off the street and the game wouldn't suffer. Likewise, the players' union could leave the NBA and create their own league, and the NBA would cease to exist.

[Cha]

22. I know, tarheelsunc.. Sterling is so ignorantly arrogant!

[treestar]

46. He doesn't give them anything, he pays them

and gets their playing in return.

[okaawhatever]

5. Funny Tweet on this from LOLGOP:

LOLGOP ?@LOLGOP 40m
The Republican urge to spin Sterling's 3 donations in the 80s into him being a Democrat suggests they assumed he was a Republican.

[Cha]

10. Yeah, but what has he done for us lately?!

[Cha]

13. Further more.. this doesn't sound like no rich Dem I ever heard of.. they actually follow through..

Skid Row homeless assistance pledge

Despite a June 26, 2006 Los Angeles Times article, detailing the Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation's pledge to spend $50 million on a site on the eastern end of Downtown Los Angeles to provide services for Los Angeles' homeless population, nothing has been built. According to an LA Weekly article from February 19, 2008, critics were skeptical that the homeless center would ever be built, and surmised that Sterling bought the property purely for its real-estate value. A follow up article from the LA Weekly states that the foundation has yet to even start attempting to deliver on its promises but continues to run full-page ads trumpeting its pledge in the LA Times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling

Sarah Ibarruri

[okaawhatever]

24. His son died of a drug overdose last year. You'd think he'd be more sympathetic to the homeless.

Clearly he's learned first hand how sometimes life can just kick your ass.
I don't think the guy is really a Dem. One of the two candidates he supported was a former basketball player and the other was someone I think he knew, also. It's probably a good thing this guy hasn't been doling out money to politicians. I shudder to think who he'd be aligned with.

[Cha]

32. I didn't know that.. I found this though..

Donald Sterling's Son, Who Got Away With Shooting His Childhood Friend In 1999, Found Dead Of Apparent Drug Overdose

http://deadspin.com/5972513/donald-sterlings-son-who-got-away-with-shooting-his-childhood-friend-in-1999-found-dead-of-apparent-drug-overdose

That is really sad.

[okaawhatever]

34. Dang, I didn't know he had killed his childhood friend. It's getting curiouser and curiouser...nt

[Cha]

35. Really.. :( and, he got off even though the kid was

evidently running away.

[LTR]

41. +1

DU needs a like button for individual posts.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Donald Sterling is a total pig...

He even lies about charity:

Skid Row homeless assistance pledge
Despite a June 26, 2006 Los Angeles Times article,[25] detailing the Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation's pledge to spend $50 million on a site on the eastern end of Downtown Los Angeles to provide services for Los Angeles' homeless population, nothing has been built. According to an LA Weekly article[26] from February 19, 2008, critics were skeptical that the homeless center would ever be built, and surmised that Sterling bought the property purely for its real-estate value. A follow up article from the LA Weekly[27] states that the foundation has yet to even start attempting to deliver on its promises but continues to run full-page ads trumpeting its pledge in the LA Times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling

[Cha]

12. Wow! Did he ever step in it.. that is if he didn't want all his

atrociously dirty laundry aired in the public forum.

I'm still wondering how the tape got released.. did his GF release it? Can't imagine she's still his GF.

thanks Sarah!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. Maybe she did. I hope so. nt

[alittlelark]

17. After listening to it I think she recorded him...

She wanted the world to see what a F'ed up piece of sh*t he really is.

[Cha]

18. Ooops.. good for her!

[okaawhatever]

27. The wife was suing the mistress for alienation of affection or something like that & the g'friend

swore she'd get even (the getting even part is rumor. The lawsuit is public info.) From NY Daily News:

Shelly Sterling told Salters that she does “not condone those statements that you heard” and added “I am not a racist ... the team is the most important thing to my family.”
Sterling’s wife is embroiled in a bitter lawsuit against V. Stiviano, who she alleges in the suit, “engages in conduct designed to target, befriend, seduce, and then entice, cajole, borrow from, cheat, and/or receive as gifts transfers of wealth from wealthy older men whom she targets for such purpose. Plaintiff is informed and believes and theron alleges that One such target was D. Sterling.”
The lawsuit, filed on by Rochelle H. Sterling on March 7 of this year, lists the defendant as V. Stiviano, aka Vanessa Maria Perez, aka Monica Gallegos, aka Maria Monica Perez Gallegos, aka Maria Valdez.
The suit claims Sterling bought Stiviano a 2012 Ferrari, two Bentleys and a 2013 Range Rover, with a total exceeding $500,000.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/sterling-wife-locked-lawsuit-clippers-owner-mistress-article-1.1770819#ixzz308owrIJE

[Cha]

29. WOW.. you cannot make this shit up@! thanks for this, okaawhatever.. shades of

Marge Schott .. the racist part anyway..

Donald Sterling evokes Marge Schott memories

"We have seen Donald Sterling before. The Los Angeles Clippers owner is entirely familiar to us. He looks like the woman who sat in the front row behind the home dugout at Riverfront Stadium.

He is old, rich, public and powerful and for some reason, people pay attention to him. Same as the woman who signed pawprints on scorecards. I don't know if Sterling feels his wealth isolates him from civility, or if he just refuses to know any better. Having dealt with Marge Schott for a decade, I'd suggest she embodied the latter.

Marge was recklessly clueless, and didn't give a damn if you knew it. Marge didn't limit her ugliness to blacks. She spread it like buckshot. Schott offended everyone from scouts to Jews, gays to blacks. The litany of her indiscretions was comprehensive and impressive. No need to amplify here. You remember what she said."

MOre..
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/columnists/paul-daugherty/2014/04/27/clippers-owner-evokes-marge-schott-memories/8284791/

[Cha]

19. Tweet: ... this is the world we live in now..

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Hey Donald Sterling this is the world we live in now2014 get over it
2:29 PM - 26 Apr 2014
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[etherealtruth]

28. ... and a beautiful world it is!

[Cha]

30. Yes indeed, etherealthruth~

[arely staircase]

11. Rapid mass communication is making it harder and harder to be a racist POS. nt

[Cha]

15. I was just wondering again.. how that tape got released?

Amazing the things that get out about some people who would have not wanted it so!

[Cha]

16. Your Complete Quotable Guide To Decades Of Donald Sterling's Racism.. DAMN!

http://deadspin.com/your-complete-quotable-guide-to-decades-of-donald-sterl-1568047212

[Cha]

20. Pres Obama's response when chuck todd asks about Sterling..

Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
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Chuck Todd asks Pres. Obama about Sterling: "I don't think I have to interpret those statements for you. They kind of speak for themselves"
8:03 PM - 26 Apr 2014

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[HipChick]

25. Disagree...It wa not a freakout

It has always been this way....

[Cha]

31. Whatever it was.. Donald Sterling's history of racism is now in the public view.

[Sunlei]

33. nice pic! a shame any woman would want to be the 'girl friend' of a person like Donald Sterling.

[lululu]

37. any number of people in the world put themselves up for sale.

Why is no one commenting on the fact that she says she's half Mexican/half Black. I mean, does Sterling think she spends a lot of time in tanning salons?

[bluemarkers]

40. what's the age difference? 100?

I mean it's like grandpa talking about the "instagram"

Once you get over the arrogant pos - I dare say the athletes who work for the Clippers earned their money, it's not given to them....

The whole rant was a twisted bowl of logic and entitlement

oh and wait, "attack the girlfriend" has already started

[Cha]

38. I love that pic.. it is so surreal that an owner of a Basketball team would

not want his gf to be seen with a Basketball player. Oh it's 'cause he's Black you say?!

[Iliyah]

36. Picking cotton (not paid for it) but being paid for it re laws

The mentality have not changed just money pays for it

[Cha]

39. Yes, the mentality has unfortunately not changed for some, Iliyah. :(

[Cha]

42. Kick for Light!

[Cha]

43. We know @MagicJohnson has loftier platforms and stadiums where he's always welcome with

empowerment message.

Ambassador Gaspard @patrickgaspard

[Cha]

44. Ha! Also, this article says Stiviano didn't release the tape.. so who did?!

On CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, Obama got rare support from Sen. Bob Corker, R.-Tenn., on the issue.
"It's just outrageous in 2014 that comments like these are being made," Corker said. "So I thought the president's response was appropriate. It's beyond belief."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-sterling-naacp-drops-plans-to-award-la-clippers-owner/

repubs are flying away from sterling and bundy..

[Cha]

45. Oh it's time..