Why are "WE" mad at Donald Sterling?

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Stillriledup

the NBA players would have basically boycotted the games and refused to play (that's my theory) so you can't take that chance, action needed to be swift and severe.

No way in hell that would have happened.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by GaryG

He should have broke her arms and legs instead. Then the penalty would have been less severe.

Yeah, I agree. A couple years in prison for an old man is much better than being forced to sit at home to watch the games on your giant TV screen and bank mega-millions in profit from the sale of your team.

They really showed him...

What a ridiculous statement you made Gary.

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

No way in hell that would have happened.

100 percent it would have. If Sterling was the owner next year, no way anyone would have played for him. No chance, no how.

You seem to not be grasping how deep the African American community took these comments, this was the straw that broke the camels back and the response by the league office and all other owners is proof that i'm right (as usual. )

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Stillriledup

100 percent it would have. If Sterling was the owner next year, no way anyone would have played for him. No chance, no how.

You seem to not be grasping how deep the African American community took these comments, this was the straw that broke the camels back and the response by the league office and all other owners is proof that i'm right (as usual. )

First off, I thought you were implying there would be a LEAGUE-WIDE strike.

Now I know you were confining your remarks to the Clippers. I still don't agree with you, but at least your theory is more plausible.

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

First off, I thought you were implying there would be a LEAGUE-WIDE strike.

Now I know you were confining your remarks to the Clippers. I still don't agree with you, but at least your theory is more plausible.

I think that nobody would have played for the Clippers, but you have to understand that the players assn would have been involved and its pretty likely that the players of the other teams would have stood by the Clippers players w solidarity. It would have been a mess.

[Lefty]

Tom said:
Can you imagine the outcry if we got hold of a private Al Sharpton conversation?

Tom, probanly would be no different than his public ones. :

Commentating on Sterling Charles Barclay said the NBA was a black league. Hmm, wonder what the white players thought about HIS comments?

[Stillriledup]

Originally Posted by Lefty

Tom said:
Can you imagine the outcry if we got hold of a private Al Sharpton conversation?

Tom, probanly would be no different than his public ones. :

Commentating on Sterling Charles Barclay said the NBA was a black league. Hmm, wonder what the white players thought about HIS comments?

Must be nice to be able to say anything you want about race and nobody will ever question you. Must be Nice to be able to get a pass on what you say.

Maybe he "gets a pass" because whites and other races arent as sensitive as African Americans?

I think if an owner came out and said "i dont want whitey at my games" whitey would laugh in his face and sort of get a kick out of it, i know i would think it was pretty funny myself....but for some reason, blacks are highly sensitive, even though it wasnt them personally he was calling out.

[Dark Horse]

Originally Posted by Stillriledup

Must be nice to be able to say anything you want about race and nobody will ever question you. Must be Nice to be able to get a pass on what you say.

Maybe he "gets a pass" because whites and other races arent as sensitive as African Americans?

I think if an owner came out and said "i dont want whitey at my games" whitey would laugh in his face and sort of get a kick out of it, i know i would think it was pretty funny myself....but for some reason, blacks are highly sensitive, even though it wasnt them personally he was calling out.

Yes, but many white people are as sensitive to accusations of racism. They will go out of their way to avoid that impression, and become accommodating to a fault. True racists are very open about that. They seem proud of it. Most people may say a racist thing here or there, but that doesn't make them racists. Most people use foul language here and there. It doesn't mean they are foul people. This Sterling thing was a witch hunt. He may or may not have been a witch. Doesn't change the fact that this was a lynch mob.

[Tom]

How many of the outraged, injured parties here previously voted for and supported that KKK senator the Dems were so proud of?

How about this ex B Ball players calling for an all Black league?
The one who referred to the players as slaved in 1999?

Yes, racism exists today - but not exactly where they want you to think it is.

[TheEdge07]

If Sterlings statements were about jews and gays...are the black-african players boycotting?

[HUSKER55]

and of coarse blacks don't use racist remarks.

[tucker6]

This will have ZERO impact on societal values regarding race. None. Zilch. Someone was able to catch a known racist on tape in the privacy of his own home saying racist things. Sorry, but that doesn't move my dial. I bet if we had the NSA tapes of the Obama private quarters, we'd hear worse, and his job/life impacts me. As has been said, it's a slippery slope, and will boomerang back onto blacks when one of their racists is caught on tape being racist.

[HUSKER55]

YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT?

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by HUSKER55

YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THAT?

can you be more specific

[badcompany]

Originally Posted by tucker6

can you be more specific

Apparently, you're unfamiliar with "Moral Relativism."

When you're part of an "oppressed" group, standards don't apply.