◼ Donald Sterling: Watch what he does, not what he says! - Charles Butler
◼ L.A. Clippers Owner to GF: Don't Bring Black People to My Games ... Including Magic Johnson - TMZ
◼ Donald Sterling's wife slams her 'small-minded and despicable' husband as LA Clippers REFUSE to show shirt logos in protest over owner's racist rant as he fights to stay in NBA - Mail ONline
◼ 'How can we make this go away?' Donald Sterling 'contacts ex-girlfriend over racist rant tape' amid claims she has 100 HOURS of recordings
◼ NAACP Willing to ´Forgive´ Clippers´ Donald Sterling After Yanking Award - ABC
The NAACP said today they are still willing to work with Los Angeles Clippers´ owner Donald Sterling despite yanking an offer of a lifetime achievement award over an audio tape containing racist comments that Sterling allegedly made. (Snip) "We are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African American students at UCLA, and so we are in preliminary discussions," Jenkins said. He also noted, however, they had not spoken since the scandal broke. The news conference was held to discuss the organization´s decision to cancel plans to honor to Sterling with a lifetime achievement in the wake of the tape...◼ Media Ignoring Dem Donations of LA Clippers' Owner, Allegedly Caught on Tape in Race-Based Rant - Newsbusters
...if the Clippers' owner had a 20 year-old record of donating to Republican candidates, it would not only be included in mainstream media stories about the controversy; it would also be considered prima facie evidence of racism.◼ PUNISHMENT: SUSPENSION? FINE? OWNERSHIP? - LA TIMES
So far, there's stone silence about Sterling's politics in stories found at the Associated Press, which notes that Sterling "has a decades-long history of alleged discrimination and offensive behavior"; the New York Times; and the Washington Post, which has included a quote from the Clippers' team president noting that the woman involved "is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family alleging that she embezzled more than $1.8 million."
◼ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics - TIME
It's time to look at ourselves — and our collective moral outrage — in the mirror, says former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking...
And now the poor guy’s girlfriend (undoubtedly ex-girlfriend now) is on tape cajoling him into revealing his racism. Man, what a winding road she led him down to get all of that out. She was like a sexy nanny playing “pin the fried chicken on the Sambo.” She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent racist sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.
They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping....
