What happened to Donald Sterling is Unconstitutional in my opinion: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/donald-sterling-punishment-clippers-lifetime-ban-fine-racist-comments-adam-silver-042914#livefyre
This represents a total violation of Mr. Sterling’s Constitutional Rights. I am personally outraged that an individual who had a “private conversation” recorded without permission to the recording party has been exposed to this outrage. Could this be a form of revenge by the Obama administration because this individual was not a supporter of Obama? Mr. Sterling is a registered Republican and has given modest sums of donations to the Democratic Party. It is my hope and prayer that Mr. Sterling will sue the NBA for ten Billion dollars and win.
I felt it necessary to return to this posting and further clarify my position. First, it is my opinion if Mr. Sterling had made these statements in a “Public Forum” he would have deserved anything that the NBA wanted to dish out to him.
As for me, I born and raised in Harlem, Manhattan in New York City. My closest friend was a black young man by the name of Richard Taylor up until I went into the Air Force at age 17.
In my forty plus years residency in McKinney, Texas, I finally supported not one, but two black woman who ran for the city of McKinney City Council. Sadly they both lost, even though they were the most qualified for those City Council positions. I am not a racist, nor a bigot, but feel strongly that our privacy under the Constitution should be protected at all costs.
It may be also noted that three well know figures in the political world made racist and bigot-type remarks in a “Public Forum” and need to be removed from public office with also huge fines. Joe Biden calling Obama, “Clean and articulate.” A Harry Reid public statement about Obama having, “No Negro Dialect.” John Kerry calling Israel an “Apartheid” state. Note: As of today, April 30th, the Obama Media Control Machine went into full force in attempting to fully destroy Mr. Sterling in any way possible. Why, the Democratic Party is now flexing its Media machine to overcome its billions of dollars in lost taxes in its folly of putting Obama care in force prior to the November elections of this year. Stuffed ballot boxes and deceit in the media are the parties’ keys to success for Obama.
Ditto…
Thank you. I thought I would be totally alone in my opinion on this terrible injustice.
I have to agree with you John, I may not agree with Mr. Stirling but what happened to freedom of speech? I believe that was a intended to be private conversation.
Thank you for taking time to support my post. Good to hear from you.
Hey John how are you?
have missed reading wonderful blogs.
hey mail me whenever you have time at- msoma1973@gmail.com. will be there for sure. have a great day
love n hugs 🙂
It was wonderful hearing from you Soma. Plan to share an e-mail with you very soon. Blessings in your journey this day.
John
Me too, I thought I was the only one who thought this matter has gone too far
And possibly one that is not even valid in a court of law
If he, Sterling, was taped without his knowledge
And then we have Jay Z who intentionally wore a Five Percent Nation medallion, court side at a basketball game
The medallion symbolizes hatred and racism towards white people
What happened to Jay Z?
Nothing even though it was in the news
I’m starting to believe the NBA is a racist organization
Jay Z just like Sterling should be banned from basketball
After all
Racism is Racism
Thank you for this comment. What a great observation about Jay Z.
You are more than welcomed
Research it when you get a moment
And take a look of Jay Z sitting court side with his racist medallion for all the world to see…intentionally