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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBundy aside, I really don't get racists. The guy that owns the LA Clippers has this girlfriend...
..who self identifies as Black and Mexican. They had an argument, well, listen to the tape. The guy's name is Don Sterling, his girlfriend is V. Stiviano. Here's an excerpt (fair use) from the site.
Sterling rails on Stiviano -- who ironically is black and Mexican -- for putting herself out in public with a black person (she has since taken the pic down). But it doesn't end there. You have to listen to the audio to fully grasp the magnitude of Sterling's racist worldview. Among the comments:
-- "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that youre associating with black people. Do you have to?" (3:30)
-- "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games." (5:15)
-- "Im just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you dont have to have yourself with, walking with black people." (7:45)
-- "...Don't put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games." (9:13)
Is it me, or really, what the heck? Full disclosure: I don't follow sports, To me, LA Clippers sounds like a franchise hair cutting chain. Tip o' the chapeau to TPM.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)fetishized. This isn't surprising in that context. They don't have a problem with people of color "staying in their place" ie in this case being fetishized or playing basketball.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)lolly
(3,248 posts)She looks like a model, he's a tired-looking old man.
If this is how he talks to her in public, I shudder to think what their private conversations sound like.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)both using each other
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blm
(112,920 posts)many public homophobes have been caught with male prostitutes. Larry Craig,
Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Christie) for example.
genwah
(574 posts)one's attracted to. It's the attraction that's scary, not the other way around. Homophobes are often homosexual. Aracnaphobes are never spiders.
blm
(112,920 posts).
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)insight into their relationship.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)So much to say - this is why black women have to be very careful when we cross the line with American men. And holy shit balls! On looks alone she could do much better let alone his ugly heart. Yuck!
I caught two of these once when I was single - she should have been able to feel him out by the third date.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)He's eighty and I understand is married. I wouldn't go out with him and I'm in my seventies. Why is she? I can't even go with the money argument because in those athletic circles, there are plenty of younger men with money. I don't understand and I don't understand why a bigoted person like him would date a woman of color if he didn't want her to have friends like herself.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)That probably has something to do with it.
spin
(17,493 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)When it comes to associating with the sort of person who can give hundred-thousand-dollar sports cars as casual gifts, a lot of folks are quite willing to bite their tongues.
oneofthe99
(712 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)I don't know what went on in your life or goes on in your head that makes you do that, but it's an ongoing problem and maybe you need to do some thinking about what you're saying.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)there. Maybe you should look into your past life to figure out why you see so much blame, women or otherwise in written words where there isn't any.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)oneofthe99
(712 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Lots and lots of cash for anything you want.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Well, almost anything. He must have crossed the line and she leaked this tape.
For him- if you listen to the tape, he has some bizarre notions about her. He doesn't seem to consider her truly black. He must have serious issues.
genwah
(574 posts)offense, but what is "truly black"?
3catwoman3
(23,815 posts)After you give him a well-deserved knee to his racist nads.
What a repulsive person.
JI7
(89,174 posts)or being supportive of someone in some other way (ususualy something like blacks and sports, gays and fashion ) to try to defend themselves against them being bigoted .
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)but back when he was on CNN, he said a lot of anti-Mexican things... Come to find out, he's married to a Mexican American woman! I guess there's a thin line between love and hate.
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)He is attracted to her youth & beauty, which overrides his racist nature. And she's attracted to his wealth & power, which override her distaste for his views.
Or to put it bluntly..he's thinking with his dick and she with of her status.
I hope she leaves him and he is publicly shamed for his disgusting comments.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)His comments are definitely racist, but what I don't get is why the, paraphrasing, 'just not in public' part of his comments. Either way, the guy is an asshole and needs to be called out for his bigoted shit.
I guess people could boycott the Clippers, but that would only hurt the players, or would it? What would be the best way to go about making sure this guy knows he's an asshole whose tongue just dug his own financial grave? There has to be a way, right?