bmac32 Loc: West Florida

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 he’s equally angry at the mainstream media for dive-bombing Sterling’s 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****m’s 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 [Sterling’s 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 doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation back then?

Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s 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 didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.

“So,” he concludes, “if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when his r****m was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s 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 media’s fascination with making people pay for what they say, instead of what they do.

“I think there’s a constitution for a reason, right? Because this is a very slippery slope,” said Cuban. “What Donald [Sterling] said was wrong. It was abhorrent. There’s no place for r****m in the NBA, any business I’m associated with, and I don’t want to be associated with people who have that position.

“But at the same time, that’s a decision I make. I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.”

The media is very much like the democratic party and use the b****s when it's convenient.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Jabbar Is a class act like so many others. There are countless others in the real world and they have been there for a long time. You wouldn't know it due to the lame-stream media and the throngs of bobble headed followers as witnessed on this site. The last few days there have been a few, just a few, but a few none the less, lame-streamers sticking their heads up ever so gingerly and acknowledging B******i was a snafu event. It's to early for the baby ducklings to break away from mamma duck, the Obama Admin, but when it comes survival time they will. In droves.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Not even sure why bothered other than it might be a chance to deflect and stay away from B******i. The Sterling crap goes back quite a ways. This they couldn't overlook but will tone it down because he's a democrat. The L.A. Times says no he's not but if a republican refused to rent to b****s and Hispanics. No way would an owner if he were republican get away with this as long as he has.

Did he do wrong, yep but in his own home and he has every right to say wh**ever he wants at home, others don't? He broke no law but she did and she may find herself doing some time. As for him selling the team, the NBA has so many bylaws plus it's a monopoly which both parties have allowed.

They'll give up Obama rather than the democratic party.

Remember that commercial about 3 AM, well this was 5 PM and neither Clinton or Obama were in the room.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

If you want to see who the real r****ts are check out the those sweet heart soccer moms from the suburbs. They h**e
but they will say with there last breath that they are not r****t but will avoid contact at all costs with those they are not r****t against.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

I'm sure it's out there but we don't see it and we're a mixed family of b****s and w****s. Through 12 years of little league, pony and soccer we didn't see one case. We did have a case where a single mother who was black didn't think she'd be excepted but my wife talked her into going to one of the outing and they didn't miss one until her son went off to school.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Well I can see it in my children. & there is nothing that you could give me even for taking the tip of one of their little fingers.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

You see what in your children?

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

I see the r****m that they have in them self. I am sure that out in public most would never see it.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

I see none in my kids, color doesn't matter, it's how others act and how they are treated when out.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

My children have lived in the city & gone to school with b****s. But they have move from the city & have no wish to live in an area like I live in. While they are inclined never to come out & say it direct in so many ways it is there to see & hear. I there is one thing they are polite.

One can move among people & chose not to see them.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

People want to be comfortable. Seeking out people of like minds is no sin and certainly not r****t. It's normal and not mean spirited. It's a normal healthy social need propelled by basic human nature. AND that is what our current social engineers, Progressive's, can't stand.

Ricko Loc: Florida

bmac32-Jabbar indicates the he noted that Sterling was r****t when he worked for him. Why did he not immediately resign? Was the money too good to pass up ? Ironically, we have the Maqic owner Rich Devos who is anti gay but he will get to v**e on what happens to the anti black owner. What a farce!!! The league is 85% black but I guess they want 100% so they can rename it to the Negro Basketball Association or the BBA . Its all about taking action so attendance remains strong and the money keeps flowing in. The two biggest r****ts are black-Sharpton and Jackson. Good Luck America !!!

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Well most people must feel that Sterling is getting what he deserves.

But bottom line most are missing the point that the person he treated with all of the goodies just bit the hand that took care of her. To me she is just a big Gold Digger & needs to have her roof fall in.

In life to day every situation needs a good guy & a bad guy. We know who the bad guy is. I only hope that the other person is shown as the bad person she is.

This is going to be interesting as it plays out. How do all of the owners truly feel that they could be blackmailed the same way by some on e they trust.

Let Sterling get away with it & face the scorn of the public or live with the idea that some one close will try to blackmail them.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Both kids live between St. Pete and Clearwater, both are machinist and work everyday with b****s. Just like everyone, some are good at their jobs and some are slackers, race does not matter to the workers but the slackers blame most things on race.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

All of sports is a dog and pony show, money talks, bs walks.
Sharpton and Jackson are race baiters and have made millions off the democratic party in keeping b****s in line.