re: Larry Johnson has to go too for his racist comments

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A) The vast majority of white billionaires don't invest in pro basketball or any other sport.

B) The people who do invest in pro basketball generally seem to be fans of the sport. I know Mark Cuban, Vivek Ranadive (who isn't white), Stan Kronke, Mikhail Prokerov, and the Seattle Hedge Fund guy who is trying to get a team are all big fans of the sport. These are all people who are recent owners as well.

Obviously i have no idea if Nigerian and Angolan billionaires love basketball on a case-by-case basis. But if their tastes are anything like their less wealthy countrymen, they are much more likely to follow soccer than anything else. Basketball is not really a big deal over there.

Also, there is no reason to assume kinship between Africans and black Americans. Those ties didn't even exist all that much in 19th century and they're probably far flimsier today.

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I'm not assuming kinship. You're projecting. I'm assuming rich people like to become richer. A basketball league featuring the best basketball players in the world would be a profitable enterprise.

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I'm not assuming kinship. You're projecting. I'm assuming rich people like to become richer. A basketball league featuring the best basketball players in the world would be a profitable enterprise.

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What's stopping them?

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I mean, if we're going to go that route, what about non-American whites who think caucasian Americans are fat lazy bastards?

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Sooo, all of Europe?

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Ponchy is the one who thinks AAs "are spoiled babies and need to grow up," and hid behind this little convenient anecdote to say so

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Not sure what led you to this conclusion. I'll chip in that the dozen or so Haitians and Jamaicans I have worked with all shared this opinion.

They're wrong though, it isn't the majority of African Americans who are "spoiled babies and need to grow up".

It's the majority of Americans who are.

You know what, he should start his own league.

Call it the BNBA and see if they can get revenue and tv deals from anyone other than BET.


Have a white entertainment television and the country would go apeshite.

There's subtle racism from blacks that there are double standards like no other. They can use the race card in their favor without it being racist, but the second a non-black person does something of equivalent nature the damn country goes on fire.

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Call it the BNBA and see if they can get revenue and tv deals from anyone other than BET.

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I'm black and I don't even watch BET.

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Have a white entertainment television and the country would go apeshite.

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Mainstream television IS white entertainment television. Nothing wrong with that either--y'all are the majority.

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There's subtle racism from blacks that there are double standards like no other. They can use the race card in their favor without it being racist, but the second a non-black person does something of equivalent nature the damn country goes on fire.

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bullshite. You wanna say the N word? Say it, be my guest. Don't come crying when there are consequences.

There is no subtle reverse racism going on for black people to have a huge problem with Sterling's remarks. To suggest so is asinine.

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Mainstream television IS white entertainment television. Nothing wrong with that either--y'all are the majority.

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Exactly. What the frick would be on WET?

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This is not a trial. Not illegal. And she's obviously a gold digger. Beside the point. Doesn't absolve him for spewing his bigotry.

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It surely is. I'm not sure why you think in California if its not a lawsuit it's fine. What she did was illegal.

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Owning an NBA franchise is a privilege. A privilege that he has proven time and again he does not deserve to have based upon his views.

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He has never publicly stated his views. As far as it seems his views haven't stopped him from treating all players the same and I don't know of any problems or lack or minorities in the front office. His personal views have not effected the NBA franchise so they should not be intertwined.

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Implying nothing of note should happen is turning a blind eye.

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Just not true. This is where I said it's childish thinking. Only a child would think if I can't see a mean man punished or Billy put in the corner then it means everything is ok.
Publicly talking about it, publicly embarrassing him, making him come face to face with such an outdated ignorant a-hole opinion can bring upon actual change. But we would rather just try to punish him (for doing nothing illegal btw) and would rather a forced apology, a forced cultural diversity class then actual change that can be brought on by real discussion. Not childish "He mean punish him daddy".

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So you think there should be no negative repercussions for his "opinion" that he doesn't like black people?

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You think a punishment should be handed down from an authority figure because we want our justice and we want it now. I mean we have to demand an apology from someone next week so we need this story wrapped up in a nice bow by the weekend.

If sponsors choose to not do business with him, players decide they will not sign with LA, fans stop buying tickets...that's all punishment. every single part of it is. That is negative repercussions that came naturally and over time. Maybe people will go back maybe they wouldn't...but let people decide that..why do we need to have an authority figure punish someone for us? Because we are too lazy and not effected enough to actually do it ourselves because lets face it, if its game 7 at home, we are going, morals and values can wait for offseason, or we can just have a man pass down a punishment for us so we feel like we fixed the world

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If you say racist shite like this, you deserve to get your bigoted arse pitchforked.

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You shouldn't be punished for an having an unpopular opinion only found out by illegal activity.
Then again I like discussion because I learn alot more that way rather than censorship and forced apology/group think

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Mainstream television IS white entertainment television. Nothing wrong with that either--y'all are the majority.

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Point of emphasis meaning if there was a channel called WET. Not the point that media caters to majority white. The second someone puts white before something it goes TOTALLY out of control.

There is a double standard. Look at ANY historically black university. They emphasis it, ALL the time. HBCU or HBU. If you called harvard HWU there would be a shite TON of consequences. Why the frick does it matter if its a HBU/HBCU, can't we just call it a fricking good university?

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bullshite. You wanna say the N word? Say it, be my guest. Don't come crying when there are consequences.

There is no subtle reverse racism going on for black people to have a huge problem with Sterling's remarks. To suggest so is asinine.

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No, the subtle racism I'm talking about isn't even the use of the N-word. But why should anyone use it? It's a fricking derogatory term either way you use it.

I get called chink, ching chong, and all that bullshite, but I ignore it. I guarandamntee you if I said the N-word it'd be fricking hell.

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frick you. My grandma moved to ohio from Jamaica in the twenties. As a black woman, she experienced denial of things you and I take for granted. Your family May or may not have had hardships, but my family was educated And hard working! and still had to beg at times for just a fair shake. We overcame. frick you.

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You know what, frick you too. My parents moved to New Orleans from a communist country, experience and denied jobs as well. Things I take for granted at times because my life wasn't a shite hole. My family weren't educated past high school, my mom is a house cleaner and my dad owned a tiny vessel to shrimp. My parents got denied handouts all the time when they came to America and had to work multiple jobs to take care of their famiily. My grandparents had to babysit me from 8am til 8pm everyday until I was 4 when I went to pre-school. So your asinine arse comment isn't needed either.

How about this for you? You guys get affirmative action, and a lot of black I know hate it because it sends your race back 50 years. It gives you guys a pass into graduate schools for those who don't deserve it and take away spots for those students that worked their tails off, but get denied because their application pool of similar race scored just as high if not higher than them.