Donald Sterling Is A Democrat

[Bry1313]

Race, race baiting, race carding, are all tools of the Democrat Party. The strategy of the Democrat Party has been to divide the nation by race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. The history of the Democrat Party is a long dark chronology of racial politics. The liberal/minority coalition we know as the "Democrat Party" is the cold and divisive wedge that splits the civil society along the lines already mentioned.

If pushing for equal rights and opportunities is divisive, then yes, the left is divisive

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

From Salon:

Monday, Apr 28, 2014 11:45 AM EDT

Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy’s ignorant paternalism: Angry old white men gone wild, again!

Donald Sterling’s racial views are worse than Cliven Bundy’s, yet some on the right defend the racist billionaire

Joan Walsh

Chief Justice John Roberts has to wonder if the universe is talking back to him after the Supreme Court last week struck down affirmative action in Michigan, relying on his fatuous 2007 declaration that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Just to prove racism is still with us, we had Cliven Bundy pop off about lazy black people being better off under slavery, and (even worse in my opinion) the filthy-rich owner of an NBA team berating his black girlfriend on tape for bringing black people to his basketball games, where mostly black players make him even wealthier several times a week.

Bundy, 67, is a hardscrabble rancher who’d never have had a public platform without wealthy hucksters at Fox News. The 80-year-old Donald Sterling, by contrast, owns a basketball team valued at over $500 million and a real estate empire where he’s had to settle for millions of dollars in race discrimination cases. He’s given money to politicians (mostly Democrats, the right will have you know) and was about to receive a poorly timed award from the NAACP.

It’s just another episode of “Angry Old White Men Gone Wild,” but the two men’s sins aren’t the same. Racism wasn’t entirely shocking coming from the not-too-sharp Nevada cattleman who seems to have marinated in the paranoid anti-government thinking that’s taken hold in marginal white communities. Its crude expression was much more disturbing coming from the powerful, wealthy Sterling.

But there’s more than simple anti-black racism linking the views of Bundy and Sterling. They share an ignorant, self-serving paternalism.

On the tape first acquired by TMZ, before Deadspin published a longer version, we hear Sterling ordering his now ex-girlfriend to stop posting photos of herself with black men on Instagram, and to stop bringing black people to games, including Magic Johnson. Although Stiviano is black and Mexican, it’s not always clear Sterling knows this; at one point he calls her “a delicate white or a delicate Latina girl.” She replies, “I’m mixed,” but fails to clarify the mixture.

At times you feel a little bit sorry for Stiviano, as she tries to reason with Sterling, calling him “honey” and bringing him juice. (Still, as she talks to him like he’s a testy child, it’s clear she’s using this unethical racist for one thing, and it’s clearly not his looks or his character.) Stiviano suggests Sterling can’t really object to her being seen with Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp; after all, Kemp is half white. “He’s lighter and whiter than me,” she reasons. “I met his mother.” Sterling is not convinced.

Occasionally she seems to get fed up with trying to parse what is just plain racism. She asks, “Do you know that you have a whole team that’s black, that plays for you?” Sterling blows up:



That’s a philosophical question for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to ponder as he decides what to do with Sterling? Are the 30 owners all-powerful? Do they “make the game?” Or do the majority-black players whose families aren’t welcome in Staples Center under Sterling have some rights, too?

Comparing the situation of Sterling’s players — talented, wealthy athletes with agents and contracts – to slavery is silly. Still, a twisted and racist paternalism links Cliven Bundy’s slavery rant with Sterling’s talk about his players. “I give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses” is only a few bad leaps of logic away from slavery being good for black people because it gave them “homes with their chickens and their gardens and their children around them, and their man having something to do.” In both cases, black people are simple, passive, and not entirely capable of caring for themselves. They should be grateful for the good will of the men who exploit their labor and accept their position at the bottom of society, because they’re not meant for more than that.

Of course I’d say it’s the players who give Sterling food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Without their labor, their talent and their extraordinary dedication to do everything it takes to win, Donald Sterling wouldn’t have a basketball team. Now, he’d still have food and clothes and cars and houses, because he’s a predatory real estate mogul who paid $2.725 million to settle a Justice Department that accused him him of driving African-Americans, Latinos and families with children out of his apartment complexes.

Finally, there’s one more difference between the Bundy and Sterling situation. Where Cliven Bundy’s supporters scurried when he made his racist rants, Sterling has attracted some powerful defenders. Always-wrong Bill Kristol says we’re making too much of Sterling’s remarks. “Everyone goes hysterical over two or three sentences,” Kristol went on to say. “Private organizations can deal with, private businesses can fire people, I suppose.” Is Kristol suggesting private business owner Sterling can fire his team’s black fans? Or his mistress?

Birther buffoon Donald Trump blames blames the mistress. “He got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend, let’s face it,” Trump told Fox and Friends. “She’s called the ‘girlfriend from hell.’ She was baiting him and she’s terrible.” On Powerline, John Hinderaker goes all the way in taking the blame to Stiviano, claiming that it’s clear the mistress was sleeping with black players and “someone must have teased him about his mistress consorting with blacks.” Thus Sterling’s remarks weren’t racist — he can’t be racist since he employs black players! — but the complaints of a sexually insecure man, and who among us, on the right, could blame him, he seems to say.

On Sunday night, there was something very moving about watching the Clippers take the court together in Oakland, all of them, black and white, wearing their warm up jerseys inside out, like a flag upside down in distress, the team’s logo hidden. They left their jerseys on the court and walked away. Adam Silver can’t do that with the mess Sterling made.

Joan Walsh is Salon's editor at large and the author of "What's the Matter With White People: Finding Our Way in the Next America."

The real question is: DO NEGROES HAVE A RIGHT TO CENSURE PRIVATE SPEECH?

 

[phrodeau]

Race, race baiting, race carding, are all tools of the Democrat Party. The strategy of the Democrat Party has been to divide the nation by race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. The history of the Democrat Party is a long dark chronology of racial politics. The liberal/minority coalition we know as the "Democrat Party" is the cold and divisive wedge that splits the civil society along the lines already mentioned.

If racism went away, it would completely defuse those Democrat's tactics.

Get to work on that, okay?

 

[Queersetti]

The left jumped all over Bundy and his backward views, monotonously intoning on about how his views were going to damage the Republican Party. I started this thread to illustrate the hypocrisy of our left wing friends, because nowhere have I heard about the political party connections of Sterling and how his personal bigotry would reflect on the efforts of the Democrat Party come November. It's real simple, clown.

Good plan. One small glitch.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/donald-sterling-republican-democrat-politics-nba-racism

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Good plan. One small glitch.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/donald-sterling-republican-democrat-politics-nba-racism

http://www.motherjones.com/files/Sterling_0.png


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WHOOPSIE-DAISY.

So Vette, since you're so newly all about being against Sterling's racism — the same racism that your buddies on here engage in that you refuse to face up to enabling — are you gonna "live like you got a pair" and revise this thread's title to reflect on his being Republican and make it factually correct?

I DON'T THINK YEW GOT THE PAIR TO DO IT.

 

[islandman]

I think we've heard the last from vetteman and miles on this subject.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I found you long ago, dipshit.

I'll put this in terms that you can appreciate.

The reason people have taken such glee in pointing out what a racist piece of shit Cliven Bundy is, is because you and all your ilk spent so much time with his cock up your ass. Hannity was pretty much going ass-to-mouth on the air every night.

Even when he was wrongly identified as a Democrat, Donald Sterling was being condemned pretty much universally by the Left. He's been a shitty owner, and a shittier human being, long before any of this came to light.

I made sure there was plenty of shit and man-on-man assfucking in my post. This doesn't mean I'm flirting with you, though.

 

[Disgustipated]

I'm on the left and I think sterling is Racist shit head.

Does Vettebirther want to admit his pals Dizzybooby and Koaladipshit are also racists?

Yeah, thought not.

 

[cjh]

Race, race baiting, race carding, are all tools of the Democrat Party. The strategy of the Democrat Party has been to divide the nation by race, religion, gender, and sexual preference. The history of the Democrat Party is a long dark chronology of racial politics. The liberal/minority coalition we know as the "Democrat Party" is the cold and divisive wedge that splits the civil society along the lines already mentioned.

Exactly.

Lee Atwater told us all about that:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ

 

[Wrong Element]

The left jumped all over Bundy and his backward views, monotonously intoning on about how his views were going to damage the Republican Party. I started this thread to illustrate the hypocrisy of our left wing friends, because nowhere have I heard about the political party connections of Sterling and how his personal bigotry would reflect on the efforts of the Democrat Party come November. It's real simple, clown.

"Monotonously intoning on about how his views were going to damage the Republican Party?" Where? On the GB? I don't recall those posts.


I'll stand by what I said in another thread (a post that, BTW, never mentions the word "Republican"):

I think it's a little more than that. A thesis of American liberals has been that the "Tea Party" is nothing new: it's the same anti-government kooks that Clinton had to deal with, but given added fuel by racial paranoia (because of Obama's race, and because of the realization that there aren't enough old white guys to tilt an election anymore). This dope is Exhibit A.

Why do you think the wingnuts have been desperate to cut this geezer loose? They gave him unconditional love, and he embarrassed them by saying things out loud that the more savvy among them know you're not supposed to say out loud.

It's the far right that's terrified of the Bundy associations, precisely because his anti-government preoccupations and theirs are so similar, and because they jumped on his bandwagon and vouched for him as an American hero.

But no one has ever thought about Sterling in any sort of political context -- unlike, say, Herb Kohl, who has owned the Milwaukee Bucks for decades and actually served in the Senate. If you had asked people about Sterling 72 hours ago, most would have said he was a buffoon, his politics aside because they aren't relevant to his buffoonery. Now we know he's a racist to boot.

Which might be why noted Democrat-hater and fellow racist Donald Trump is defending him.

 

[Adre]

Like I said, if he would have been a Pub, you'd be all over it, hypocrite.

Mmhhmm. Come out wherever you are Vetty.

 

[Adre]

You're on a roll with Bundy and Sterling, Vette. Gotta a Derby pick (I should stay away from)?

 

[Disgustipated]

If nothing else Democrats are consistently racist.

Anyone who is pro affirmative action is a racist.

You two and the op just got slaughtered. Good job, dummies.

 

[Adre]

You two and the op just got slaughtered. Good job, dummies.

It's too easy now that they do it to themselves. Fish in a barrel.

 

[Queersetti]

I think we've heard the last from vetteman and miles on this subject.

No, they will just attack the messenger and say the left wing media is lying about it.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If racism went away, it would completely defuse those Democrat's tactics.

Get to work on that, okay?

Racism is the Lefts most profitable income stream. Half of the goddamned country makes a living fucking Negroes.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

No, they will just attack the messenger and say the left wing media is lying about it.

At the very least, Miles will wait until Vette plays it out first. Then Vette gives him a leash tug to pip up with an accommodating blurt.

 

[Queersetti]

At the very least, Miles will wait until Vette plays it out first. Then Vette gives him a leash tug to pip up with an accommodating blurt.

http://img.webme.com/pic/t/tufajowo/malpa284.gif

 

[KingOrfeo]

From Salon:

Monday, Apr 28, 2014 02:31 PM EDT

Modern racists just repeat conservative talking points: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the ugly face of GOP policies

Sterling and Bundy aren't vestiges of another time. They are the embodiment of Paul Ryan & Michele Bachmann's ideas

Carolyn Edgar

During a recent soccer match between Barcelona and Villarreal, a fan threw a banana at Barcelona player Dani Alves as he was about to take a corner kick. Instead of getting upset, Alves, who is Brazilian, calmly picked up the banana, took a bite of it and took his kick.

In much the same way that Alves treated the fan’s bigoted act as a gift, we can consider the antics this past week of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling as gifts and opportunities to accept Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s invitation in her dissent in Schuette v. Bamn — to “speak openly and candidly on the subject of race.”

Bundy’s ramblings about “the Negro,” and Sterling’s insecurity about his mixed-race girlfriend posting pictures on Instagram of herself with black people, provide insight into what Sterling referred to as the “culture” of racial discrimination that persists in our society. Bundy and Sterling exemplify why all Americans need to openly and honestly discuss race, the retrenchment of laws guaranteeing equal protection and protecting civil rights, and the resurgence of white supremacy that has grown even more acute since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

It would be easy, as many undoubtedly will, to dismiss Bundy and Sterling as anachronisms – as throwbacks to a time when racism was accepted and Jim Crow was the law of much of the land. To some, Cliven Bundy may be just a crazy old rancher spouting nonsense. Former Bundy supporters like Sean Hannity quickly distanced themselves from his remarks, and Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer took pains to note that Bundy does not represent the GOP.

But Bundy’s remarks about the good ol’ days of slavery, when black families were intact and raising chickens and tending gardens, are similar to the rhetoric espoused by a “marriage pledge” signed by former GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann – a pledge claiming ”a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”

Bundy’s comments about black men sitting idle also echoed recent comments made by Republican congressman Paul Ryan, who decried the lack of work ethic among “inner city” men. While Bundy may not be a GOP spokesman, he is pretty good at repeating conservative talking points.

For his part, Donald Sterling is not only the owner of the Clippers, he is also a real estate mogul who has faced numerous lawsuits alleging that he discriminated against blacks and Hispanics who sought to rent his apartment units. He is not simply a harmless old bigot speaking nonsense in the heat of a lovers’ quarrel with his much-younger mistress. Sterling’s well-documented racism was largely ignored by the NBA and the mainstream media for years. Now, people profess to be “outraged” by his views.

The media circus surrounding Bundy and Sterling exemplifies why the nature of our discourse about race and racism must change. Although it has traditionally been easier for the media to focus on individual racist acts instead of systemic white supremacy, it is far less useful to focus on individual racist acts, and far more important to recognize what modern racism looks like in practice, up close and personal.

Modern racism is not Bull Connor turning fire hoses and dogs on black people. Modern racism is the reinforcement of white supremacy through systemic, institutional polices, practices and laws that deny equal protection to people of color, regardless of one’s own personal views. While modern racism is often fueled by personal animus, it may thrive even in the absence of it. Modern racism seeks to protect the majority and preserve the status quo, usually without express discriminatory intent. And it exists regardless of political affiliation.

Jonathan Chait recently argued that modern-day conservatism is doomed because its sociological underpinning is white supremacy. But, as Ta-Nehisi Coates eloquently stated, “White supremacy does not contradict American democracy — it birthed it, nurtured it, and financed it. That is our heritage.” As Coates points out, without a corresponding commitment to ending white supremacy, anti-racism alone is unlikely to result in true equality for all.

A favorite refrain of those who claim that talking about race divides the nation and reinforces racial stereotypes, is that we are all one race – the human race. If that is true, then it is in our collective best interest to eradicate policies that have a consistent and deleterious impact on blacks and other minority groups. If we are all one race, then a system that denies one segment of our society the right and the ability to participate fully in its rewards should be unacceptable to all. The American Dream is meaningless if it remains inaccessible to most of America’s minority citizens.

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, it is a good time to acknowledge that the tools that dismantled Jim Crow 60 years ago are inadequate to address systemic inequality today. We need new tools to repair a socioeconomic, political and judicial system that, despite the numerous gains made in the last 60 years, remains separate and unequal.

Although the writer Teju Cole warned that we should not “get excited over racist old coots: they are valves, taking pressure off conversations we need to have about systemic white supremacy,” the resurgence of racist old white men like Bundy and Sterling invites us to have a different, more honest conversation about race and racism. We can, and should, start talking about what we, as a society, are going to do to ensure that white supremacy ceases to be a structural impediment to equal opportunity. And it is time to challenge those who favor race-blind rhetoric to ensure that their “one race” vision becomes reality, instead of pretending racism is a problem that no longer exists.

 

[islandman]

About 75% of NBA players are black....

Can't wait to see how the new Commish handles Sterling and his comments should they be proven legitimate.

For that matter, I wonder if any of the current Clippers players can petition the players' union to sue Sterling for creating a hostile work environment.


In related news, the Clippers are losing corporate sponsors left and right with Sprint being the latest to suspend its marketing activities with the team. Several sponsors have dropped the Clippers completely.

And further, should the NBA force Sterling to sell the Clippers, billionaire real estate mogul Rick Caruso has stated that he's ready and willing to buy.

....you've got to love capitalism's self-correcting mechanism.

 

[Disgustipated]

About 75% of NBA players are black....

Can't wait to see how the new Commish handles Sterling and his comments should they be proven legitimate.

For that matter, I wonder if any of the current Clippers players can petition the players' union to sue Sterling for creating a hostile work environment.


In related news, the Clippers are losing corporate sponsors left and right with Sprint being the latest to suspend its marketing activities with the team. Several sponsors have dropped the Clippers completely.I

And further, should the NBA force Sterling to sell the Clippers, billionaire real estate mogul Rick Caruso has stated that he's ready and willing to buy.

....you've got to love capitalism's self-correcting mechanism.

Magic is also in the mix to buy the team.

 

[Queersetti]

Magic is also in the mix to buy the team.

First game as owner, he ought to sit in the front row and have V. Stiviano sit on his lap.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

In related news, the Clippers are losing corporate sponsors left and right with Sprint being the latest to suspend its marketing activities with the team. Several sponsors have dropped the Clippers completely.

And further, should the NBA force Sterling to sell the Clippers, billionaire real estate mogul Rick Caruso has stated that he's ready and willing to buy.

....you've got to love capitalism's self-correcting mechanism.

According to Twitter, there is only one last remaining sponsor of the Clippers: Corona.

http://www.eetcafededeugd.nl/media/1027/corona.jpg

 

[Sean]

So, Vettebigot posted yet another lie spoon fed to him by the RW blogosphere that specialises in lying to retards. and got owned. Again.

Guess we won't see him around for a while then.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'll believe sponsors abandoned the Clippers six months from now. Until then I'm assuming these are the same people who abandoned Rush Limbaugh over his slut comment.