Sterling?
Donald Sterling, the owner of the Clippers basketball team has long been known as something of a idiot. He was sued by his former general manager, Elgin Baylor, who claimed that there was discrimination of the age and race variety.
A whole bunch of women that he employed also claimed that he was particularly abusive, bullying them in sexual ways.
His players always claimed that he was exceptionally cheap. The fans raged against him, and for years and years he has been long considered the worst owner in sports.
But nothing has ever stuck to him.
Because he's a billionaire.
He's bought his way out of things. The rest of the owners have put up with him. The NBA has kow-towed to him. The players just don't have that sort of power.
He behaved badly. Oh well. Deal with it. He's the Donald of the West.
Money controls a whole lot of situations.
But I think the 76-year-old alleged racist, alleged sexist, alleged bullying pig has finally stepped into a big enough pile of crap.
TMZ has produced a tape of Sterling lambasting his half-black, half-Hispanic girlfriend for having posted a photo of her with Magic Johnson.
It's an appalling tape of audio.
Sterling in clear voice is explaining that he doesn't want blacks in a photo with her. He doesn't even want them at 'his games.'
That's the nice part of the tape.
But it calls to mind a couple of questions.
1). Does the moron know that she's black?
2). Does the idiot understand that most of the players on his team - which is actually a half decent team, for once - are mostly black?
3). Can the goofy bastard understand that Magic is something of a legend in the basketball community?
Yet, as I listened to the tape, I felt mostly sad. There wasn't a whole lot of anger there, it was pretty much mostly sadness.
Because I know people who speak in such a manner...
...and truly feel that way.
In 2014...there's still a pretty heavy percentage of the population that hates a segment of society based on their heritage.
It's sort of treated like a dirty little secret nowadays. The media talks about the strides that have been made.
"We have a black man as president, for crying out loud!"
But there's still a lot of hatred for particular races...in a lot of areas...
And you'll hear a lot about the fact that Sterling's generation was of that mindset, but it's not about a generation. It's about the individual.
Each individual deserves to be judged on their own merits that has nothing to do with their race, or sex, or sexual orientation.
And perhaps I'll go out on a limb here and judge Sterling for his alleged actions.
He's an alleged idiotic rat bastard.
And I hope he can't buy his way out of the mess he made on his own.
There's no room for that man in sports...
...or anywhere else in a compassionate society.
A whole bunch of women that he employed also claimed that he was particularly abusive, bullying them in sexual ways.
His players always claimed that he was exceptionally cheap. The fans raged against him, and for years and years he has been long considered the worst owner in sports.
But nothing has ever stuck to him.
Because he's a billionaire.
He's bought his way out of things. The rest of the owners have put up with him. The NBA has kow-towed to him. The players just don't have that sort of power.
He behaved badly. Oh well. Deal with it. He's the Donald of the West.
Money controls a whole lot of situations.
But I think the 76-year-old alleged racist, alleged sexist, alleged bullying pig has finally stepped into a big enough pile of crap.
TMZ has produced a tape of Sterling lambasting his half-black, half-Hispanic girlfriend for having posted a photo of her with Magic Johnson.
It's an appalling tape of audio.
Sterling in clear voice is explaining that he doesn't want blacks in a photo with her. He doesn't even want them at 'his games.'
That's the nice part of the tape.
But it calls to mind a couple of questions.
1). Does the moron know that she's black?
2). Does the idiot understand that most of the players on his team - which is actually a half decent team, for once - are mostly black?
3). Can the goofy bastard understand that Magic is something of a legend in the basketball community?
Yet, as I listened to the tape, I felt mostly sad. There wasn't a whole lot of anger there, it was pretty much mostly sadness.
Because I know people who speak in such a manner...
...and truly feel that way.
In 2014...there's still a pretty heavy percentage of the population that hates a segment of society based on their heritage.
It's sort of treated like a dirty little secret nowadays. The media talks about the strides that have been made.
"We have a black man as president, for crying out loud!"
But there's still a lot of hatred for particular races...in a lot of areas...
And you'll hear a lot about the fact that Sterling's generation was of that mindset, but it's not about a generation. It's about the individual.
Each individual deserves to be judged on their own merits that has nothing to do with their race, or sex, or sexual orientation.
And perhaps I'll go out on a limb here and judge Sterling for his alleged actions.
He's an alleged idiotic rat bastard.
And I hope he can't buy his way out of the mess he made on his own.
There's no room for that man in sports...
...or anywhere else in a compassionate society.
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