To understand Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling is to understand the modern racist.
It’s all about, “Do as I say, not what I do.”
How else do you reconcile the statements of a man who makes millions living off Black elite athletes yet doesn’t want a female friend to “promote” that she fraternizes with Blacks in public, brings them to games and even posts pictures with Blacks on Instagram.
Even President Obama has called the statements racist.
As Sterling allegedly said on a recorded conversation with a girlfriend, “I want you to love them privately. Every day you can be with them … every single day of your life … but why publicize it on Instagram and why bring them to my games?”
It’s unbelievable till you hear it, complete in full repetitive glory, f-bombs and all.
Hypocrisy? Sure, but it’s also the kind of duplicity we encourage in the modern day, which enables the modern racist, many of them card-carrying members of the infamous one percent.
