Someday, I think we’ll be able to figure out what it is.
Yeah I bet you never said anything racist in your entire life. I would say 99 percent of America is just a little racist. Your probably the 1 percent, who isn’t.
There’s a CT saying Magic paid the mistress to record and/or release these tapes. If Magic actually ends up owning the team I’ll run out of tin foil.
Let’s say he did.
Now what?
Well what happens now is that people are going to look at Magic Johnson like a creep and the hatred will shift away from Sterling a little. But only if this is true.
I think 100% of adults (assuming they haven’t been in a coma since birth or something), have some racial biases. And yes, I include myself in that.
That being said, some people are more racist than others. Some people’s mothers are more racist than other people’s mothers.
Well yeah, I agree. I admit, I’ve profiled black people without knowing them and the ones I’ve done this with have actually turned out to be great guys. If I ever became a racist like these guys at the site Stormfront, then I would want to jump off a bridge. Those people are sickening. That’s why I don’t think Sterling is getting a fair shake. I mean, I know what he said was wrong but I think he’s racist like how maybe I would be racist. Say if I had a daughter and she bought a black guy home, I don’t think I would be too thrilled and I think that’s kinda how Sterling is.
I am the daughter who brought the black guy home, then married him. From where I stand, you and he are getting a perfectly fair shake.
Well I’m sure your dad wasn’t to thrilled, so is he a racist? I mean cmon I’m not trying to start a fight here. I’m trying to be honest here.
My father died before I met my husband. But my mother was ecstatic with my choice and thinks my husband is wonderful.
I think we all harbor racial biases. That said, it doesn’t mean that everyone has them to the same degree. Yours seem extensive. Sterling’s are extensive. I can’t just say, “Oh, I’ve had a racist thought so you get a pass.” No, I don’t get a pass for my racist thoughts, and I don’t give others passes, either.
Ok well I apologize if I offended you. Sorry about your father and I’m glad your family is happy with your marriage.
Honesty works both ways. That attitude or mindset is racist. Not being a neo-Nazi or KKK member is hardly reason to shrug and tell yourself it’s okay.
In the case of Sterling, personally I understand where he’s coming from, since he’s in his 80s. My family expected racism to die with the civil rights movement but tons of people alive were brought up in environments where racism was the norm/institutionalized and those people aren’t going to change willingly; all we can really hope for is using the law to keep them honest.
Why the hell would you assume that?
I’m prepared to go on record as not being a defender of egregious and genuinely destructive racism. What percentile of my present company does that put me in?
I would say 99 percent of Americans have driven over the speed limit.
Maybe 1 mph over. Maybe 5mph. Heck, maybe even 10 or more. On the racism scale, Sterling went 150mph in a 20 zone, and that’s being equated with doing 36 in a 35. Unbelievable.
You didn’t offend me. You made a leap that if you would be bothered by something that everyone else would be bothered by it. A lot of people with strong racial biases think that everyone else thinks as they do, we’re just silent about it. So Sterling says something awful and people who agree with him think, “That’s not so bad. I think that way myself and I’m an okay person, therefore he’s probably an okay person and everyone is overreacting.”
But from my vantage point, you can’t use your biases to redeem his. I don’t use mine to redeem yours. The fact that we all may have some biases does not justify biases, it just means we all have work to do.
If you recognize yourself in Sterling and feel under attack by proxy by the attacks on him, you can either continue to feel like you’re on the side of the angels, or you can really think about what racism is and means, why you believe the things you do, and what assumptions you are making that would make you think that my father, about whom you know nothing at all, would share your biases.
I would love Magic for doing that. Sterling is not fit to be an owner of a team, Magic is. Anything done to get rid of Sterling, the better
What do you mean, now what? It means Magic is a friggin’ G. Magic sends his regards, bitches!
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but Sterling said some pretty racist things about Israel and Jews and their treatment of blacks too. He was all over the place.
I hope the rest of the tapes get released. That 9 minutes or whatever was comedy gold.
They are not told what to say, and they’re told how to dress only at postgame news conferences. But for what that’s worth I’ve always hated that move; it was a draconian show of force intended to reassure conservative white fans. Evidently chicagowhitesox1173 was thrilled, though.
I think most Americans are familiar with the idea of workplace rules.
For the most part the owners aren’t the ones doing this, and they’re not evaluated “primarily on their physical prowess.” They’re evaluated based on a variety of factors including skill and salary.
You’ve never seen a player force a trade or request his release? It’s not uncommon. And of course every single element of this applies to every NBA player regardless of race.
The main point is that the comparison doesn’t work very well.
I could care less how a NBA player dresses but they look like idiots when they go up to a press conference dressed in nerd clothes or thug clothes. I don’t think Sterling cared too much how they dressed either because Blake Griffin and Chris Paul are well known for their weirdo outfits at press conferences.
Edit-well known to NBA fans