Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, got into an argument with his girlfriend, V Stiviano (who is mixed race Black and Mexican), who recorded his ranting and leaked it to TMZ.
HuffPo story.
While it’s hardly shocking, given this guy’s history, at least it’ll spawn some funny tweets.
Nothing has really been “exposed”, because Sterling is a known racist scumbag. He’s done way worse than this.
Am I an asshole for thinking that this black/Mexican girlfriend of his is at least 25% as vile of a person for willingly consorting with such a piece of shit just so she could see and be seen with athletes and celebrities?
I think in the case of Stiviano it’s not so much that she wants to be seen with athletes and celebrities as she wants a share of Sterling’s fortune when he finally kicks. Do the math, he’s 81 and she’s in her 20s. She probably won’t have to wait that long. In fact, she may end up owning the team.
What a joke that they’re calling her his “girlfriend.” He’s telling her it’s okay if she fucks the black guys, just don’t get on instagram with them or bring them to “his” games. The guy is a lunatic, racist dinosaur. The whole time listening to the tape I just kept thinking, “what the hell is this beautiful woman doing with this jerkoff, and she keeps calling him pet names. Disgusting all around!”
If he wanted to avoid black people, I’m not sure buying a basketball team was his best move.
And to think that Sterling is upset about a picture with Magic Johnson. I mean, the guy is revered, and probably a more successful businessman that Sterling.
Of all the black people on the planet, Magic would be no lower than #2 on my list of someone to hang out with. Come to think about it, he probably would be no lower than #2 on a list that included everyone on the planet.
It’s not like it was about some gangsta rapper or other lowlife.
Had you then I lost you.
He’s also the most public face of the Clippers biggest rival, the team that they share a building with. He’s a scumbag, but there’s actually a plausible reason for not wanting her to bring Magic Johnson to Clippers games or post pictures of them together.
Larry Bird and Magic were each others biggest rivals. Now they are friends. Both transcend team loyalties and are heroes of the NBA. There is no reason why Magic should be unwelcome in any NBA venue. If the recording is accurate, Sterling took exception to minorities. Magic happened to be the one who’s picture got posted. For that to set off Sterling is utterly insane. But then, he probably is.
No argument from me.
Did you guys listen to the clip? Sterling explains in detail what his issue with Magic is, and it definitely doesn’t have anything to do with his basketball career.
This it right here and it’s pathetic.
A whining old man tries to tell his mixed race girlfriend that he doesn’t like her publicly hanging around “minorities” which seems rather incongruous as her being Black and Latina she is the very definition of the word.
Get out your checkbook Sterling (who by the way changed his name to Sterling from Tukowitz for can be suspected as his desire to avoid anti-Semitism it what has to be one of life’s greater ironies) as this one is going to cost you.
If you like your humor equal parts depressing and surreal, I’d kind of recommend it. Listening to him try and convince his gf that he isn’t racist, but that she shouldn’t publicily be seen with black people while at the same time awkwardly trying to ignore her repeatedly pointing out that she herself is black is kind of the apex of the “I’m not racist but…” genre.
It really is a bizarre conversation. He is making no sense whatsoever and is getting pissed off when she tries to get him to explain himself.
All I can figure out is that he has a group of buddies who teased him about his girlfriend being seen with black people. Why a grown man of his status, education and wealth would give two shits about that is beyond me.
As noted, I am kinda surprised this came to a head in such a dramatic fashion given his history. In fact, this is not even the strangest thing I have read about him. This is even stranger.
It’s just so odd and rare to see someone like him who genuinely views Black people as chattle.
How racist against black people can you be if you’re dating one?
That’s what confuses the living hell out of me in this. If I hate something I don’t want to associate with it (even begrudgingly like being my players). So why would he CHOOSE to be around something he hates?
Forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all.
Three things I took from this (and I am not defending this raging ass):
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She SOUNDS like she is setting him up, cannot believe he was so naive.
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She is clearly pushing his buttons trying to get this reaction.
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While the guy is clearly a racist, if you remove the word “black”, most guys would say the exact same thing about not taking pictures or bringing the guy you are ^&*%ing to your game/team/stadium when you are the known “boyfriend”.
No love for him, but she is just as bad in a much different way.
Plenty.
Racism isn’t just about seething hate. It’s also about holding one group above another, or thinking that groups shouldn’t mix. A person can believe black people to be their intellectual and social inferiors and still associate with them, fuck black women, and even be polite when interacting with them for business reasons.