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Effective immediately, I am banning Mr. Sterling for life from any association with the Clippers organization or the NBA. Mr. Sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices; he may not be present at any Clippers facility; and he may not participate in any business or player personnel decisions. As for Mr. Sterling’s ownership… Read more.
How many people are bigoted in one way or the other in this league? I don’t know. But you find one, all of a sudden you say well, you can’t play favorites being racist against African-Americans. Where do you draw the line? (Huffington Post, April 28, 2014) This, in essence, is how Mark Cuban, owner… Read more.
I’m on record lamenting that law enforcement officials were no more interested in stopping illegal gambling on Wall Street than Captain Renault was in stopping it in Casablanca. Which is why I greeted this damning admission with indignant indifference: A trial attorney from the Securities and Exchange Commission said his bosses were too ‘tentative and… Read more.
Michael Jordan is the only Black majority owner in the NBA. He owns the Charlotte Bobcats. As entertaining as I found him as a player, however, I held nothing but contempt for Michael as a person. Not least because his refusal to speak out on racial issues suggested a craven willingness to associate with anyone,… Read more.
Making celebrities of idiots who say or do things that have no socially redeeming value has become a defining feature of social media. Far worse, though, is the way mainstream media now cover these idiots as if their ignorant rantings and contrived antics are truly newsworthy. This was brought into distressing relief over the past… Read more.
Last summer I joined the chorus of those heralding the birth of South Sudan as a new nation in Africa – fathered not by colonial masters but by Africans themselves. But I felt constrained to sound this cautionary note in a commentary presaging its independence day: What looms, however, may cause the southerners’ Independence Day, which… Read more.
President Obama is on a state visit to Japan. It’s the first by a sitting U.S. president in almost 20 years. Therefore, you’d expect the media to be covering each step he takes on Japanese soil as if he were John Glen walking on the moon. Yet his visit is competing for coverage not only… Read more.
Affirmative Action Weren’t the past 40 years of affirmative action intended to rectify the lingering consequences of slavery and Jim Crow? Never mind that white women and wealthy Blacks were the ones who benefited most…. Enough already! (“Senate Apologizes for Slavery; Blacks Say, ‘Show Us the Money (Reparations),” The iPINIONS Journal, June 19, 2009) This… Read more.
Foremost I should say that Edward Snowden strikes me as little more than a narcissistic, egotistical, publicity-seeking idiot who is to national intelligence what Kim Kardashian is to media celebrity. What’s more, he seems every bit the media whore she is, and is probably hoping that his NSA leaks will make him even more famous… Read more.
