What a Creep
Still trying to figure out this crazy cat, Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
So last month, recordings surfaced of him spewing out racist garbage; he pleaded with his mistress to stop bringing black people to basketball games and to stop taking pictures with them.
He was quickly fined by NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, and received a lifetime ban from league activities.
Sterling went on CNN last week, publicly apologized and asked America for forgiveness.
Now Sterling (or his lawyer) is reversing course; he won't pay his $2.5 million fine levied by the NBA commissioner, because he "didn't do anything wrong" and he was "not granted due process." In fact, Sterling (or his lawyer) plans to sue the NBA.
First of all, the NBA (like the NFL, NHL and MLB) is a private club; it's a league with its own constitution and by-laws, and it is governed by an appointed commissioner.
It is not a government bureaucracy.
When Commissioner Silver spoke to Sterling and Sterling confessed the voice on the recording was his, that's all the due process that was needed. There is no "innocence until proven guilty"; guilt was admitted by the offending party, and Sterling was in direct violation of a number of articles in the NBA constitution.
Period.
Secondly, why would you apologize and ask for forgiveness on national television if you've done nothing wrong?
I guess words are one thing. When money is added to the equation, it is quite another.
Then again, we are talking about a dude who is a documented (over decades) card-carrying racist, who has been sued multiple times over the years for discrimination. He is married, yet openly has a mistress 50 years younger than him.
Sterling is obviously a quality human being. Yes, I am judging. Deal with it.
But now things take on a familiar scene. This case will be tied up in the court system for months, if not years; considering Sterling's wealth, it may even go to the Supreme Court before everything is resolved.
Then there will be an appeal and the whole process will start over again. All because of one racist asshole who won't take accountability for his own actions.
The only beneficiary of this entire process? Lawyers. Who else?
It's the American way.
So last month, recordings surfaced of him spewing out racist garbage; he pleaded with his mistress to stop bringing black people to basketball games and to stop taking pictures with them.
He was quickly fined by NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, and received a lifetime ban from league activities.
Sterling went on CNN last week, publicly apologized and asked America for forgiveness.
Now Sterling (or his lawyer) is reversing course; he won't pay his $2.5 million fine levied by the NBA commissioner, because he "didn't do anything wrong" and he was "not granted due process." In fact, Sterling (or his lawyer) plans to sue the NBA.
First of all, the NBA (like the NFL, NHL and MLB) is a private club; it's a league with its own constitution and by-laws, and it is governed by an appointed commissioner.
It is not a government bureaucracy.
When Commissioner Silver spoke to Sterling and Sterling confessed the voice on the recording was his, that's all the due process that was needed. There is no "innocence until proven guilty"; guilt was admitted by the offending party, and Sterling was in direct violation of a number of articles in the NBA constitution.
Period.
Secondly, why would you apologize and ask for forgiveness on national television if you've done nothing wrong?
I guess words are one thing. When money is added to the equation, it is quite another.
Then again, we are talking about a dude who is a documented (over decades) card-carrying racist, who has been sued multiple times over the years for discrimination. He is married, yet openly has a mistress 50 years younger than him.
Sterling is obviously a quality human being. Yes, I am judging. Deal with it.
But now things take on a familiar scene. This case will be tied up in the court system for months, if not years; considering Sterling's wealth, it may even go to the Supreme Court before everything is resolved.
Then there will be an appeal and the whole process will start over again. All because of one racist asshole who won't take accountability for his own actions.
The only beneficiary of this entire process? Lawyers. Who else?
It's the American way.
