Well, what else do you expect from Fox? This is their message – that racism is dead and whatever little slither there is left, belongs to that slither along. This message is supported by racists and further underlined by the Supreme Court in last week’s Affirmative Action ruling. These folks really think racism is dead!
The NBA has banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racial comments he made to his reported girlfriend. The NBA will immediately begin working to try to force him to sell the team.
“The hateful opinions voiced by that of the man [on the tape] are those of Donald Sterling,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. “…I’m personally distraught the views expressed by Mr. Sterling came from within an institution that has historically taken such a leadership role in matters of race relations.”
As part of the ban, Sterling is not allowed “to attend any NBA games or practices, be present at any Clippers office or facility, or participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team.” Sterling also will be barred from attending any Board of Governors meetings and participating in any other league activity.
The fine is the maximum the NBA can issue under the NBA constitution, Silver said. Seventy-five percent of the NBA’s owners must vote to oust Sterling to force him to sell.
“I fully expect to get the support needed,” Silver said.
Several groups hoping to purchase the Clippers are already stepping forward with a bidding war expected to exceed $1 billion for the franchise, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Among those groups, Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners will be front and center in pursuit of the Clippers.
h/t – yahoo
R&B singer Tank has decided not to go ahead with performing the national anthem at Tuesday’s LA Clippers game. You see, Tank is black and based on what the Clippers owner Donald Sterling said, Tank – because of his color – is not allowed.
In explaining his decision to TMZ, Tank said;
“As an African-American man and artist, I must take a stand on a matter that is so deeply personal to me.
“In light of the recent disturbing and offensive allegations, in good conscience, I cannot move forward with my scheduled appearance at Tuesday’s Los Angeles Clippers game.”
The big story over the weekend was the racist comments allegedly made by the owner of the LA Clippers. Donald Sterling.
In a story that was originally reported by TMZ sports, Sterling is heard on audio in a very angry tone, saying that he doesn’t want black people brought to his games. One of the black people he was referring to, was magic Johnson. After hearing that he was a direct target of Sterling’s racism, Magic Johnson vowed never to step foot in the Clippers arena again.
But what if, just go with me on this one, but what if Magic Johnson wants to buy the LA Clippers? How great of a story would that be?
Well the story might really happen. According to report Yahoo Sports, Magic Johnson is looking into the possibility of buying the Clippers.
Magic Johnson and his billionaire backers, the Guggenheim Partners, want a chance to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers, league sources told Yahoo Sports. “Magic’s absolutely interested,” one source closely connected to Johnson’s business interests told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night.
To bail themselves out of the NBA’s worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Make no mistake: Magic’s Dodgers group is angling for a Southern California sports empire. Magic Johnson and Guggenheim had been aggressive in pursuing a purchase of the Los Angeles Lakers – only to have the Buss family make clear to them the franchise isn’t for sale, sources told Yahoo Sports.
“This is 100 percent Magic’s plan,” a league official intimately involved in the buying and selling of franchises told Yahoo Sports.
Howard Kurtz built a name for himself as a media critic when he was employed at CNN. So his decision to work for the pits at Fox News was mind-boggling to say the least. But something happened over at Fox that has Howard pointing fingers and naming names, reminiscent of his days at CNN. And that something is Cliven Bundy!
Clive Bundy it seemed had an open invitation to appear on any Fox News show he chose, at any time he wanted. Bundy you may recall, is the Navada rancher who has broken the law for over 20 years and just because he broke the laws, was crowned a hero by Fox News and the Republican party. Bundy then got the support of militia groups calling themselves “Patriots.” These “patriots” came armed with guns with one goal – to make sure Bundy continue breaking the law.
But as fate would have it, Bundy is also a racist.
According to the New York Times and verified by a video of the man himself talking, Bundy has some rather racist views about black people. On the video, Bundy was seen and heard saying that blacks would have been better off under slavery, because all they do nowadays is sit on their porch waiting for a government handout and aborting their babies… and putting their men in jail!
After his views were publicized, Fox News – the same folks who had Bundy on camera so much, he could have shared office space with Bill O’ Reilly – Fox decided that the best way to handle their racist hero was to ignore the story.
For over 9 hours after the Bundy’s racism surfaced, Fox News stayed silent. Even shutting down a Democrat when he tried to mention Bundy’s name on air.
Howard Kurtz decided that he would be the voice of reason and pointed out the hypocrisy of his employer and his fellow co workers for trying to keep the story from their loyal viewers. On his Sunday show, Kurtz took them to task!
“In my view, Fox News fell seriously short on this story on Thursday,” Kurtz said. “All day long until Special Report at 6 p.m. ET, there was virtually no mention of these racist remarks by Cliven Bundy when everybody else was covering it.”
“And I think that to ignore a major story that was on the front page of The New York Times at a time when the network, among others, had devoted a lot of time to covering this story and to building up Cliven Bundy, I think that gives ammunition to Fox’s detractors.”
So true Howard, but Fox’s silence on this matter is just one of thousands, maybe millions of other areas where ammunition presents itself for, as you say, “detractors.”
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Another famous black person is speaking out on the racist remarks allegedly made by the owner of the LA Clippers. In addition to Snoop and Labron James, President Obama, in a news conference with other leaders in Malaysia was asked to weigh in on the racist rants attributed to Donald Sterling, as broadcast by TMZ Sports. The president called the speaker in the audio ignorant, saying “when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t have to do anything, you just let them talk.”
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Personally, I think all the black players in the NBA including the ones playing for the LA Clippers and their fans, should boycott the LA Clippers. If the racism expressed by Donald Sterling turns out to be true and he prefer blacks not come to his games, then shouldn’t that include the players?
I think it should. The way you hurt rich racists is in their wallet. A black boycott of the Clippers will not end Sterling’s racism, but it may starve the bastard for the duration.
Snoop Dogg said his piece yesterday, and based on the anger he displayed I’m pretty sure he’s done with the Clippers. LeBron James is speaking out now.
Before taking on the Charlotte Bobcats in Game 3 of Miami’s first-round playoff series, James said that if the report is true, then “there is no room for Donald Sterling in our league.”
“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,” James said, via the Miami Herald. The four-time NBA MVP also said he even contemplated not playing. “I kind of wavered back and forth whether I would actually sit out. If our owner would come out and say the things that he said, I would really have to sit down with my teammates, talk to my family because at the end of the day, our family, and our teammates are way more important than that.”
James also wondered aloud what would happened to a player who “came out and said something of that stature” and called on NBA commissioner Adam Silver to “do something very fast and quickly before this really gets out of hand.”
LeBron was not alone. TNT analyst and former NBA star Charles Barkley said Silver”suspend [Sterling] and fine him immediately.” Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson described Sterling’s alleged remarks as a “black eye for the NBA.”
In case you haven’t heard, the owner of the LA Clippers is trying to outracist the racist Cliven Bundy. News today from TMZ Sports had audio of the owner, Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend, “don’t bring black people to my games!”
Well, black people have ears to hear and sometimes we use them well. BlackTwitter went nuts dogging the racist and they didn’t leave anything unsaid. But when it comes to dogging someone, no one does it better than the head DOGG himself, straight from the doggpound – Snoop Dogg!
In an instagram message, Snoop addressed the racist Sterling, calling him a “bitch A** redneck, white-bread, chicken sh*t mother fu*ker!” And that’s just part of what he had to say!
Snoop’s message – WARNING! STRONG LANGUAGE USED
L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been captured on tape going on a racist rant against Black people after his bi-racial girlfriend posted pictures of her and Black people on Instagram, reports TMZ.
Sterling’s girlfriend, V. Stiviano, who is Black and Mexican, posted a picture of herself with Magic Johnson, prompting Sterling to say that she was embarrassing him. He told Stiviano that she was supposed to be a “delicate” Latina and that he preferred not to think about her Blackness. He also told his girlfriend, who said that she could not be racist in her heart, that he does not want her to acknowledge Black people publicly.
Read more from TMZ:
– “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30)
– “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.” (5:15)
– “I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” (7:45)
– “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)
Magic Johnson called Sterling’s remarks a “shame.”
“It’s a shame that Donald Sterling feels that way about African-Americans,” Johnson told TMZ.
“He has a team full of amazing African-American basketball players that are working to bring a championship to Clippers fans. The Clippers also have a strong minority fan base.”
Sterling has a documented history of allegedly racist behavior — he’s been sued twice by the federal government for allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Blacks and Latinos.
ESPN reports:
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued [Sterling] for housing discrimination, claiming he refused to rent apartments to blacks and families with children.
Federal prosecutors contend that Sterling, his wife, Rochelle, and their family trust refused to rent to many prospective tenants, treated them poorly and misrepresented the availability of apartments to them in the city’s Koreatown section.
The defendants also are accused of refusing to rent to black prospective tenants in Beverly Hills as well as families with children looking to rent apartments that the defendants owned or managed in Los Angeles County.
“Here in Los Angeles, where housing is already at a premium, it is imperative that no one be denied housing simply because of their skin color, ethnic background or because they have children,” said U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang.
A message left with attorney Michael Kennick, who has represented Sterling in previous lawsuits, was not immediately returned Monday.
Claiming violations of the federal Fair Housing Act, the lawsuit seeks an end to “discriminating on account of race, national origin and familial status,” plus unspecified monetary damages and penalties. The lawsuit also names as defendants the Sterling Family Trust and the Korean Land Company, which owns multifamily rental properties throughout the county.
In November, a federal judge ordered Sterling to pay nearly $5 million in fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys in a lawsuit accusing him of discriminating against black and Hispanic tenants.
He was also sued by former Clippers exec Elgin Baylor for racial discrimination, TMZ reports.
Alan Keyes is a contributor for the conservative propaganda outlet called WorldNetDaily, and he is making news today because he is also a black man who is defending the racist remarks made by Republican hero, Cliven Bundy.
According to Mr Keyes, Bundy was only pointing out the truth about blacks, and he said that liberals are the real racists for focusing on Bundy’s statement. In a statement to WorldNetDaily, Keyes said;
“He wasn’t talking so much about black folks, but about the harm and damage that the leftist socialism has done to blacks…”
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“I find it appalling that we basically have a history of the leftist liberalism that wants to extinguish black people by abortion [and] destroying the family structure. All of these things if you just look at the effects, you would say this was planned by some racist madman to destroy the black community.”
Then when somebody comes along to comment on that damage, the leftists all scream “racism.”
“I think it’s time somebody started to recognize the racism that exists in its effects – the hard leftist ideology using the black community for their sacrificial lamb, for their sick ideology. It’s time we called them what they are.
“Now it’s racist to point it out.”
Yesterday in my piece on the racist Cloven Bundy and his views about the “negro” people, I touched on the reason why Republicans and their media machine especially Fox News, are so easily drawn to the Bundy types. My conclusion in the piece was that Bundy exemplifies the dog whistle message these Republicans preach every day – that the lazy blacks are coming to take whatever you have, so be fearful, be very fearful… and buy more guns!
It’s the whole “birds of a feather flock together” mentality, so the flocking with Bundy was just the natural reaction for these folks.
However, Bundy’s true colors came to light yesterday when the New York Times published an interview where Bundy expressed some extremely racist views about black people and naturally, the same Republicans who crowned him King Bundy – leader of the Republican cause against the government and the second coming of Ronald Reagan – are now tripping over themselves in a mad dash to distance themselves from the crazy man brave enough to say the things they all feel inside. In the Times interview, Bundy did not blow the dog whistle with subliminal messages like the other Republicans do, he just spoke the message.
In recent weeks, Sean Hannity of Fox News was practically in bed with Cliven Bundy, stroking Bundy’s ego every chance he got. But now, Hannity is besides himself and has joined the mass exit.
This is what Hannity said in a statement.
Allow me to make myself abundantly clear. I believe those comments are downright racist, they are repugnant, they are bigoted and it’s beyond disturbing. I find those comments to be deplorable and I think it’s extremely unfortunate that Cliven Bundy holds those views.
On The Ed Schultz show yesterday, guest Mike Papantonio and M. Maxwell further explained the birds of a feather mentality in the Republican party.
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You all know the story that the New York Times broke, a brand new story that showed Cliven Bundy to be an in your face racist. Fox News, as I’m sure you know, has been defending Bundy from day one, with multiple interviews on the so-called “news” network and promoting his story as if he’s the second coming of Christ. But since the Times story broke, Fox News has avoided the story like it’s the plague.
Today, Fox tried to avoid Bundy and continue their usual talking points sharing any and all stories about Obama and what they think are Obama’s failures. They had a panel and a topic – The Keystone Pipeline and the fact that Obama is not working fast enough to approve the darn thing.
Among the panelists was Joe Trippi, a non apologetic Democrat who, after making his statement on the Pipeline tried to throw in a comparison to the racist Cliven Bundy, but before he could finish his statement, the Fox Host was tripping all over herself trying to keep the story from getting out to their Fox audience.
Trippi pointed out that delays in approving the pipeline were connected to a court case in Nebraska.
“And the same people, by the way, who argue about Bundy ranch that the feds are coming in…” was all that Trippi could say before being cut off by Carlson.
“Alright, let’s not bring that into this discussion,” she said reflexively. “I don’t want to bring that into this discussion!”
At that point, she turned to the conservative guest to get the segment back on track.
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