Lithuanian basketball team president makes absurdly racist comments

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Gedvydas Vainauskas, the president of Lithuanian basketball team BC Lietuvos Rytas, is under fire for offensive comments he made in a recent interview.

Vainauskas said that he doesn't think teams should have more than two black players because "bad things start to take place" when teams exceed that number

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"We've always held a stance that there shouldn't be more than two black players on the team. What happened was that coach Tomas Pacesas likes to play with black players - to control them, to teach them, to tutor them - and we ended up with four players that are black. All of a sudden, they came together to form ... how should I put it ... a sort of a gang. It cannot be that way; no more than two black players - I can say that from my 23 years of experience in the business. Teams, don't ever have more than two black players ... (smiles) Because that's when bad things start to take place."

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