AuntiE
Loc: 45th Least Free State
His statements are from Monday, April 28.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Slams Media Culture Of Racial Sanctimony
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is, like many famous people, plenty mad at Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for saying some pretty inflammatory things about black people and the sport he loves. But hes equally angry at the mainstream media for dive-bombing Sterlings r****t remarks like vultures, eager to gorge themselves on more of their own false sanctimony.
Abdul-Jabbar had a column in Time Monday that should be required reading for anyone thinking about taking a job as a race-baiting TV talking head. He quickly acknowledged that Sterling said stupid and r****t things (duh), then got to the point: the media is full of hypocrites who long ago traded in any ambition to report real news for scintillating talking points that rely upon the ceaseless massaging of American r****ms desiccated corpse for one more wisp of righteous indignation.
The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging, he wrote. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking. All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the r****t closet.
Sure, Sterling comes across as bad as he possibly can, Jabbar said. But what about everyone around him all the people who are undoubtedly happy to profit from the fallout from his having said such vile things?
Man, what a winding road she [Sterlings much younger girlfriend] led him down to get all of that out. She was like a sexy nanny playing pin the fried chicken on the Sambo. She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent r****t sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.
They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.
Suddenly he says he doesnt want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldnt we have all called for his resignation back then?
Shouldnt we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didnt we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizens privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romneys comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didnt steal the cake but were all gorging ourselves on it.
So, he concludes, if were all going to be outraged, lets be outraged that we werent more outraged when his r****m was first evident. Lets be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Lets be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban himself a maverick among a constellation of high-profile sports conformists, said Monday it would be unwise to succumb to the mainstream medias fascination with making people pay for what they say, instead of what they do.
I think theres a constitution for a reason, right? Because this is a very slippery slope, said Cuban. What Donald [Sterling] said was wrong. It was abhorrent. Theres no place for r****m in the NBA, any business Im associated with, and I dont want to be associated with people who have that position.
But at the same time, thats a decision I make. I think youve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. Its a very, very slippery slope.
Hello, AuntiE--I haven't heard from you in a while...
I wish I'd read his article--it's hard to discern which are his words and which are the writer's words. All very well said, though. Thanks for posting it--should make for some good back-and-forth. I agree with Mark Cuban--the real crime is revealing personal conversations to the media--for profit! I hope it backfires on her. She calls herself Sterling's "Everything"--HA! I'll bet she's already been replaced ! Sterling's repulsive--but so is the high-and-mighty media, who are s***ering over the whole thing !
I should care what a tall, older, mixed race ex basketball player that converted to islam a religion or more likely cult that wants to k**l me thinks or says. formerly Lou Alsindor
AuntiE wrote:
His statements are from Monday, April 28.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Slams Media Culture Of Racial Sanctimony
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is, like many famous people, plenty mad at Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for saying some pretty inflammatory things about black people and the sport he loves. But hes equally angry at the mainstream media for dive-bombing Sterlings r****t remarks like vultures, eager to gorge themselves on more of their own false sanctimony.
Abdul-Jabbar had a column in Time Monday that should be required reading for anyone thinking about taking a job as a race-baiting TV talking head. He quickly acknowledged that Sterling said stupid and r****t things (duh), then got to the point: the media is full of hypocrites who long ago traded in any ambition to report real news for scintillating talking points that rely upon the ceaseless massaging of American r****ms desiccated corpse for one more wisp of righteous indignation.
The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging, he wrote. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking. All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the r****t closet.
Sure, Sterling comes across as bad as he possibly can, Jabbar said. But what about everyone around him all the people who are undoubtedly happy to profit from the fallout from his having said such vile things?
Man, what a winding road she [Sterlings much younger girlfriend] led him down to get all of that out. She was like a sexy nanny playing pin the fried chicken on the Sambo. She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent r****t sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.
They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.
Suddenly he says he doesnt want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldnt we have all called for his resignation back then?
Shouldnt we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didnt we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizens privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romneys comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didnt steal the cake but were all gorging ourselves on it.
So, he concludes, if were all going to be outraged, lets be outraged that we werent more outraged when his r****m was first evident. Lets be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Lets be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban himself a maverick among a constellation of high-profile sports conformists, said Monday it would be unwise to succumb to the mainstream medias fascination with making people pay for what they say, instead of what they do.
I think theres a constitution for a reason, right? Because this is a very slippery slope, said Cuban. What Donald [Sterling] said was wrong. It was abhorrent. Theres no place for r****m in the NBA, any business Im associated with, and I dont want to be associated with people who have that position.
But at the same time, thats a decision I make. I think youve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. Its a very, very slippery slope.
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I know I'll probably be torn a new one for saying this...While I don't agree with what Mr Sterling said or how he went about it, the last time I checked it's not against the law to be a r****t or make r****t remarks...at least not yet.
My sentiments to the letter. And this man was sentenced without a trial or a jury. A sad state of affairs in the former land of the free.
mwdegutis wrote:
I know I'll probably be torn a new one for saying this...While I don't agree with what Mr Sterling said or how he went about it, the last time I checked it's not against the law to be a r****t or make r****t remarks...at least not yet.
oldroy
Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
Old_Gringo wrote:
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I would have to use more than one thumbsup for this one. Sterling has been badly mistreated this time for words he spoke at his home and words that meant so little. His girlfriend is not real black, if any at all, and I don't blame a man who had bought those 5 luxury cars for her to drive for saying some of the things she supposedly recorded at one time.
That commissioner proved to be less than able to do the job when he did what he did without a jury or a trial. I think he needs to give up his job before anything else happens. Former players of Sterling's have stated that they don't remember him being so r****t. Maybe we need to get a new President so r****m can slide over.
AuntiE
Loc: 45th Least Free State
mwdegutis wrote:
I know I'll probably be torn a new one for saying this...While I don't agree with what Mr Sterling said or how he went about it, the last time I checked it's not against the law to be a r****t or make r****t remarks...at least not yet.
It seems closer then we would presume, not only on this matter but others as well.
That's it a name spelling correction?
slatten49 wrote:
Lew Alcindor.
All punitive actions are civil. If the members of his exclusive club want to throw him out. So, what? Civil, no law was broken except bylaws of the NBA.
Wolf counselor wrote:
My sentiments to the letter. And this man was sentenced without a trial or a jury. A sad state of affairs in the former land of the free.
The Gestapo activities of the w and obozo executive branch and the legislature that passed HLS that robbed me of freedom and liberty in exchange for security are UN CONSTITUTIONAL.
ron vrooman wrote:
The Gestapo activities of the w and obozo executive branch and the legislature that passed HLS that robbed me of freedom and liberty in exchange for security are UN CONSTITUTIONAL.
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ron vrooman wrote:
I should care what a tall, older, mixed race ex basketball player that converted to islam a religion or more likely cult that wants to k**l me thinks or says. formerly Lou Alsindor
That's exactly what went through my mind as it was first presented. That and how it was a private conversation and its not against the law to be a r****t in private. Not yet anyway.
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