These Darkies are Ruining 'Merica!

Dude, why would you say that out loud?

The Los Angeles Clippers have finally made the Lakers the "other LA team" after a very successful season and their owner makes the news. All kinds of news; sports news, "real" news, daily show news, etc. All joking aside, can anyone say anything ever without being recorded, ever? 1984 should've been called 2014. An older white man made a racist comment against an entire race, a race which just so happens to make up 79.54% of the NBA (I made that up, but it's got to be close). Not only that, but his team is made up of 11 black players, 2 white players and a ginger; and their head coach is black too. I won't continue explaining why this comment is stupid, wrong and potentially bad for his business.

So he got caught on tape, and 5 minutes later it was all over the media. Within 48 hours, he was banned from the NBA, banned from participating in any activities related to basketball or the Los Angeles Clippers and most likely, a forceable sale of his team.

As a community, we fueled, if not demanded, this resolution to be enforced immediately and a also apply the maximum penalty allowed ($2.5M maximum allowed under NBA rules).

I for one believe that, besides being wrong, racism is an entirely ignorant feeling. However, the first amendment protects freedom of speech, even stupid speech, even wrong speech. I understand that this was said during an NBA game, by an owner subject to NBA ruling, which is a completely private entity, operating independently in which participating parties agree to certain bylaws. The conclusion of his penalty is without a doubt fair, granted we agree that he entered a contract as team owner to abide by NBA rules, whatever they may be.

But now he is forced to sell his team, not to mention when he bought it the team was not anywhere near what it's worth today. There you go, cash in your millions and learn your lesson, mister.

Thank God someone said something racist,

I almost had to get a real job

What really bothers me is that his racist views have not been a secret for many years now. On top of that, many charitable organizations have accepted his numerous donations with the knowledge of his position regarding races other than white. What's different now? What's different is that he was caught on tape, without his knowledge. It seems that we as a people are ok being told atrocities in our face, but we cannot stand people talking behind our backs.

Think about the Snowden incident, people were outraged ... at the fact that Snowden leaked government secrets, instead of the actual evidence he was reporting, whistleblowing government wrongdoing. On the other hand, Obama tells us to our face that he has drones at his personal disposal that can target anyone anywhere in the world, but that he probably won't do it, and we could trust him on that. I wonder if the people would've reacted differently had he said it in a private conversation that had just happened to get recorded.

I guess in a way, I can be happy that the people are outraged at violating privacy to get information, but there is no consistency on behalf of the media or the American people. Donald Sterling's comments were made during a private conversation that just happened to get recorded and publicized. The government was conducting a global surveillance program including recordings of private webcam conversations, but the people were outraged at the act of leaking this information instead of the information itself. The NSA conducts thousands (maybe millions?) of wire tappings, background searches without warrants every day, and the people seem to be ok with this.

Well, it seems the government's indoctrination program is working, teaching citizens in their K-12 government-run education system to be subjected to and blindly trusting their wise and ever-knowing government.

On the bright side, it could've been a lot worse for Sterling, he could've lost an NFL team.