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[jammerbirdi]

Could be additional tapes. Doc Rivers meeting with players later. Steven A. Smith is reporting from his sources that inside the Clippers organization people want Adam Silver to act quickly. Players reportedly 'livid' and under pressure from relatives etc. who want them to 'take a stand' and sit out a game or games?

So it's certainly not just rogue cowboys at home on the range. Donald Sterling is a disgusting excuse for a human being. I would call him many names likening him to animals but I'm trying to not lower my own behavior as each and every case of disgusting human speech or action comes to the fore. I do hope the players and the coaches move forward and get past this right now FOR themselves, and for the tens if not hundreds of thousands of African American and Latino fans of the team.

And please. NBA owners. Take our team away from this repulsive slime. Force him out. Chris Broussaird likened him to an antebellum slave owner. Trust me. That's an accurate description.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10843525/nba-investigating-offensive-audio-recording-allegedly-los-angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.� - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[pilight]

There's nothing new here except the commissioner. Maybe Adam Silver will do what David Stern always refused to and take some action.

Some Sterling history:

http://deadspin.com/your-complete-quotable-guide-to-decades-of-donald-sterl-1568047212

[Genero36]

Earvin Magic Johnson ‏@MagicJohnson24m
TMZ reported this morning that Clippers owner Donald Sterling doesn't want me or other African-Americans to come to Clippers games.

Earvin Magic Johnson ‏@MagicJohnson25m
.@cjbycookie and I will never go to a Clippers game again as long as Donald Sterling is the owner.



Earvin Magic Johnson ‏@MagicJohnson23m
I feel sorry for my friends Coach Doc Rivers and Chris Paul that they have to work for a man that feels that way about African Americans.

Earvin Magic Johnson ‏@MagicJohnson21m
LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's comments about African Americans are a black eye for the NBA.

[jammerbirdi]

I just heard the tapes. This is on another level. It sounds SO much worse than it reads. On another level from everything. His history. It's TRUE racism. Not ignorance. Not the admitted use of one word. It's the attempt to intimidate a person of color into cutting off her public associations with 'black people.'

I just want to say something else. We know how the elites will destroy and jettison the still live corpses into oblivion of non-elites who dares to display any kind of racial political incorrectness ... It's going to be interesting to see how that same machinery deals with a fellow elite.

And ... this will be a window for many into the Los Angeles that people have no understanding of. Most will not have a clue as to what you're really dealing with here, the wealth, the power, the sense of entitlement, the litigiousness, the racism.

This isn't ignorance. This is evil. But it's SO representative of the elites of Los Angeles and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.� - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

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Remember this?

[jammerbirdi]

Watching Shaq and Charles forced to deal with this at halftime instead of basketball… to me it was heartbreaking. Honestly. They both showed incredible class and restraint. But that made it incredibly and really terribly real.

They all said the same thing and I completely agree and that's that they can't see Donald Sterling continuing as the Clippers owner. Which is the silver lining in this horrible situation. The team we love and the owner we despise permanently separated from each other. They also said the NBA and Silver have to do something immediately. Suspension, etc. Again, I agree, the need is immediate.

Please, NBA. Save me and save so many of us die hard Clipper fans this anguish. We can't accept this from the owner of the team we love and yet we shouldn't have to be torn or distracted at this time. Cut him out of the picture right now. Suspension and forbid him to have anything to do with the team. BEFORE tomorrow's game. Please. I don't want to spend tomorrow ranting or tweeting my disgust with this situation.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.� - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[pilight]

What does the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP think?

http://www.naacp-losangeles.org/events.php

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[ChicagoAnnie]

the league knew how this dude was years before this audio surfaced...and did nothing. now, they are forced to address it.

i feel bad for doc and the guys to have to answer questions about this clown while trying to focused on their jobs.

i'm also annoyed by the fact that al sharpton felt it was necessary to threaten the league with a demonstration in front of the nba HQ in NY on tuesday, if they didn't take action. his threat came before Silver had a chance to address the media in Memphis tonight. it's not about you Al...move away from tmz's camera, and allow the league office, and NBAPA have their say.

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[pilight]

There's more! Deadspin has an extended, 15-minute version of the conversation between Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his then-girlfriend V. Stiviano.

http://deadspin.com/exclusive-the-extended-donald-sterling-tape-1568291249

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Lisa Leslie was on the post-game show & said she would not have played if she were in the same situation. She also encouraged all Clipper ticket holders to ask for refunds of playoff tickets & next year's season tickets if Sterling remained as owner.

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The next Clippers home game is Tuesday. let's see if the fans respond and don't show up.

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[jammerbirdi]

[pilight]

The NBA isn't going to force Sterling out. They don't want that precedent. Not only because some of the other owners privately agree with him, but because they don't want to be in a position where one of their star players says something disparaging about Jews or Japs or whoever and has to be suspended for life.

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[pilight]

If David Stern was still commissioner, he would fine the Clippers players who wore their gear inside out for violating the league dress code...

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[jammerbirdi]

They can suspend him indefinitely. What's important is that they do the most they can legally do now. Imediately. Almost everything else, what they can and will do later with or about Sterling or the Clippers ownership, is a far off in the distance consideration.

The intensity of the heat on the controversy is so intense right now. Because of the laser focus of the playoffs and the Clippers presence in the playoffs and the reactions from everyone, past greats, current superstars, and the president. Not to mention the reality, not a mere perception, that the story breaking and the league not acting swiftly or strongly enough has broken the focus and momentum, if not the spirit of the Clippers, Lob City being maybe the greatest show in professional athletics right now, and is therefore effecting the outcome of the playoffs.

Anyone. Who thumps on his copy of the NBA bylaws or any other contractural legalities at this time and asserts what the league can't do is on the wrong side of history and is standing up and voicing an opinion dangerously on the wrong side of the matter of racial progress and justice in the United States.

The players, more than anyone else but certainly not just them, have this in their mouths right now, everyone is distracted and dealing with that right now. They're not going to swallow anything less than the absolutely maximum response by the league. An indefinite suspension could really mean anything. But it sounds like the maximum punishment that's even possible at this time. Everyone will swallow that at this time and it could help turn the Clippers hearts and minds back to winning basketball.

Because of how open ended it is on all fronts -- again, it could mean anything in reality -- it should have been done before yesterday's game. At any rate, just as soon as the identification of the voice as Sterling's was established.

pilight, I'd love for you to expound (but I realize I might be dreaming) on your suggestion that other NBA owners might share Sterling's opinions... like specifically, of what? Black people?

That's outrageous and crazy! Just wrong. Except I would agree and add to them about 95% of anyone who owns a home in Beverly Hills. The opinion of African Americans by the wealthy (and very liberal) of Los Angeles, which now includes now many (not so liberal) "internationals" we can call them, is an opinion that is so low that if publicly known it would shock everyone even African Americans living here in Los Angeles.

The walls are up, enforced by the police for so long there's like a Black People Barrier up around the Westside of LA. Landlords silently enforce it and employers cement everyone in their places by who they hire for the massively large service industry that works the Westside. Yeah. It's time for some real truths to come out.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.� - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[pilight]

[jammerbirdi]

First, you're just a contrarian by nature and second you take special pleasure in casting doubt on anything I passionately assert to be true.

And while it might sound like I've overreached on the point about black people in LA being shocked, I've chosen my words carefully there. But you're right in spirit and nobody knows this stuff quite like African Americans, who live it every moment of their lives. But they also don't hear it overtly stated (and by whom) in the ways in which only white people can often hear it.

I've been saying that for years (largely to myself) and nothing in my experience has ever caused me to waver in that particular 'insight.' But I'll concede (whatever) on that point. Except that I think that actually one of the things that has given this incident and these tapes so much power right now, the power to shock and create 'awe' in everyone who hears them, is that they are a rarely heard (and by whom) graphic articulation, almost matter-of-fact in their tone, of overt unapologetic true and actual racism. The real deal.

This is a different country than it was before the civil rights movement. Black people may still experience the end results of this kind of racism, but they don't hear it spoken by the most powerful practitioners of it, not like they might have decades ago in the South or in the wrong neighborhoods of a city in the northeast. And not spoken by billionaires caught on tape and in the liberal bastion of Los Angeles.

Donald Sterling said something in the recordings that I will guarantee few people caught or even noticed. See if you did and don't lie. In admonishing his girlfriend on the specific issue of posting pictures of herself with black people on 'the Instagram' he said something like... "So I don't have to get calls..."

I wish my friend Sheri were still alive. She was so brilliant (and quick) at catching things exactly like that. She would have scrunched up a half smile and said, calls from whom? Who are those people?

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.� - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

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