
I guess all those great great dark colored wonderful men that can put a ball in a hoop should be fired too.

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Phatscotty wrote:L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whom commentators tried to tie to the Republican party immediately after his alleged racist statements became public, has in fact only given money to Democratic candidates, according to campaign-contribution records.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/37 ... -cavanaugh
macbone wrote:So Donald Sterling also refused to rent to Koreans in Korean neighborhoods. Is there any ethnicity the man didn't turn down for housing?
mrswdk wrote:He was found innocent of racial discrimination in the workplace at a previous court case, so it doesn't sound like his racism was affecting his role as an employer/owner. Why does it matter if he holds an unpopular opinion? Can one not become a CEO these days without first expressing all the right politically correct views?
'Before any individual can be admitted to high office, he or she must first demonstrate sound moral thinking in relation to the issues of race, homosexuality, gender equality, socialism and the supremacy of the Party'
Sharpton audaciously exploited the Sterling situation to bring attention to himself. He called for the NBA to investigate Sterling and to bar him from owning the Clippers.
“No one should be allowed to own a team if they have in fact engaged in this kind of racial language,” he told TMZ. “What is there to investigate? He should be suspended immediately. Let’s quit stalling, let’s quit copping out, NBA. Let him go.”
“You cannot run a major business in this country and expect people to buy from you if you, sponsor a bigot,” he said. “I’ll be in action working on the phone with CEOs of major, that’s how we got rid of [Don] Imus, with advertisers.”
Here is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Sharpton condemned Sterling’s racism, as if he doesn’t have his own extensive and well documented history of bigoted remarks.
Sterling, now banned from the NBA for a lifetime, has a history of stirring raced based controversy, but so does Al Sharpton. Sharpton has trashed “homos,” “chinamen,” “crackers,” and has unapologetically used the “N” word…
The Democratic Party in 2004 and 2008 had no problem appearing with Sharpton in presidential debates. Not one candidate called Sharpton out for his outrageous history of hate. A Republican, in contrast, who may accidentally or unintentionally slur a politically incorrect remark commits political suicide.
Sharpton is championed by liberals as a Civil Right hero, he is President Obama’s confidant, an accepted leader of the black community and is accorded a platform for his hate mongering and racial agitation—his own primetime 6 p.m. show “Politics Nation” on MSNBC. Meanwhile the mainstream media devotes all-encompassing coverage to Sterling to ensure that he is held accountable for his comments.
Why doesn’t the public and the President apply same standard to Al Sharpton as they do to Donald Sterling? Powerful people and organizations are willing to look past hate when they believe it may benefit them, which distinguishes Sharpton’s success.
oVo wrote:It's not easy being green, just ask Kermit.
Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke were the last decent presidential choices that might have had a chance to turn this country away from Corporate Democracy. Big business has spent a fortune just to discredit him, but the American voter continues to blindly follow their party affiliations. Like fans at a sporting event, they sheepishly support their two party candidates.
Saturday Night Live did a nice lampoon of Sterling to open the show last night.
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