Donald Sterling Racist Comments
There is a question floating around in the NBA (aka the National Basketball Association) community right now. Should Donald Sterling be banned for his racist comments? Yes, I think he should. What he said was not excusable even though he comes from a generation where saying those things is okay. He attempted to get his girlfriend to take pictures off Instagram because “she was publicizing the fact she was walking with a black man.” In his interview on CNN he said the following. “ That’s the one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some African-Americans-- maybe I’ll get in trouble again… they don’t want to help anybody.”
What all was said? Sterling told his girlfriend, V. Stiviano “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” If that’s not racist I don’t know what is. He doesn’t want black people at his games. He claims he isn’t racist and it’s “just part of the culture.” That doesn’t even make sense, even coming from the generation he did. I just do not believe that what he has said can be dismissed easily.
Cliff Paul, who claims to be a brother of the Clippers’ Chris Paul, had bugged Sterling’s office for years. When George Zimmerman, the person convicted of killing Trayvon Martin, was acquitted to the conversations, Sterling allegedly said “Buy that guy a beer.” According to these documents, he also went to IHOP with Paula Deen, a cooking show host, just to laugh at black dishwashers. I’m not sure if this is true though. Could Cliff Paul be making all this up for money and fame? Who knows? It’s just what he ...
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...ling, he sounded terrible. "Oh man, when I talked to him ... he felt terrible.” McNall continues on to say, "I mean he was like 'What an idiot I am. I don't know what I was thinking or doing." It is very believable that Donald Sterling feels awful about what he said, since he basically ruined his and his girlfriend’s life by making the racist comments.
Donald Sterling has made several racist comments, trying to get his girlfriend to get minorities out of her public life and trying to get her to stop bringing any minorities to Los Angeles Clippers games. He has supposedly made comments about Shaquille O’Neal, Beyonce, Chris Paul, and Kim Kardashian. He has also attacked Magic Johnson for having AIDS. He has hurt his image so much and regrets all his choices, however, he deserves to be banned if he won’t even pay his fine with a net worth of $1.9 billion.
From this point Boobie Miles would be the victim of racial abuse. He was left on the bench and was racially abused by fans of his own school.
It was then argued that it was not the league’s right to suspend the basketball player even if his opinion was offensive to others, but he still had the religious freedom to express his opinions as stated in the American constitution.... ... middle of paper ... ... This could be argued by the simple fact that the legal system (despite being a supposedly emotionless system), is in fact, based highly on emotion.
And more likely than not the next Jordan, and there will be one (just maybe not in basketball), will probably not want to put their entire career and reputation at risk even if it can benefit their entire race. People are motivated out of self-interest, and want to win. Rhoden really wants to believe that all black athletes are selfless and want the best for their community and race. But to expect this is really ludicrous. Kobe truly believes that the ends justifies the means. If he shoots the ball 3 for 21 on any given night but his third make happens to be a game winner, Kobe is a happy man. And if that means that he is hard to play with and teammates do not get along with him, then so be it. In Kobe 's words, “Friends come and go but banners hang
It is clear that I am not the only one that believes so. A majority of NBA team owners voted in agreement for Adam Silver’s punishments and players across the league were satisfied as well. Banning him from the NBA may sound a bit too much, but in an era where racism in sports has not been an issue for decades, it is extremely disrespectful to bring a debacle like this back to the surface. Expressing ones opinion is allowed and there is nothing legally wrong with it, but what Sterling said is something that is not acceptable in today’s society, which is why the penalties were all, justified. Two of the four ethical frameworks, Utilitarianism and Ethical Realism both contribute to this understanding. The NBA made their decision for the greater good given the number of people involved. The choice was to either punish one man for his wrongdoing, or allow thousands of people across the country to question the integrity of the National Basketball Association. They also practiced choosing the lesser of two evils where the reprimand given was a bit exaggerated but necessary considering the alternative. Overall, the banning of Donald Sterling by the NBA, commissioner Adam Silver, team owners, and the players, was an ethically suitable price to pay for such callous
his friends who were making racist comments about the negros that she and Howard were part
The National Basketball Association is the most popular professional basketball league in North America; it is also the most popular professional basketball league in the world. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the most diverse businesses in the world, which was the deliberate plan of former NBA commissioner David Stern. The NBA was once an all white and male dominated league, now through years of an aggressive effort to diversify the organization the NBA is now one of the shining beacons for diversity, tolerance and acceptance in the workplace. Former NBA commissioner David Stern spearheaded and put into action on the best examples of creating and cultivation opportunities for success based on merit. “When David Stern steps down as NBA Commissioner in 2014, among the legacies he will have created is an era in professional sport when leagues and teams hired the best people possible. He embraced the moral imperative for diversity while helping to show the other leagues that diversity is also a business imperative. The evidence for the NBA’s continued commitment to racial equality is seen in the strong grades in the League Office and in many key areas on the team level.”(Lapchick, R.) To fully understand the transformation of the league we will cover the history of the association, team diversity, league diversity, the NBA diversity initiative, and current diversity issues.
Bill Russell grew up in an extremely racist time in America in an extremely racist state. Born in Louisiana and raised both there and in Oakland, California; Russell and his family battled the every day hardships that most black people faced at that time. But Russell always had a set of morals and guidelines that he led his life by, many of which he learned from his father, who he says was his hero and biggest role model. These morals revolved around independence and a very classic “ I will not allow anyone to impose their will on me.” (Page 56, paragraph 1) These morals followed and shaped him in his playing and coaching career.
Segregation and discrimination have run rampant throughout the early and mid 1900s. Through the creation of Title IX, it was meant to give women’s sports the same opportunities and advantages as men’s sports. However, Title IX has also caused controversy among athletic programs because certain money making programs are being defunded to give equal opportunities to other athletes. It becomes difficult for institutions, like Baylor, to find an equal balance between supporting all of its athletes and profiting money. Now, many athletes are trying to fight the NCAA to try to be compensated for their athletic ability and for the millions of dollars that they are bringing in revenue. Many college athletes are struggle to live in a day to day basis outside of sports due to NCAA restrictions that are set upon them. By creating unions for athletes, this can provide athletes with suitable compensation that diminishes some of the inequalities between professional and amateur athletes. In today’s society, racism is not as bad as it was in the beginning of college and professional sports. Although recently, the n-word was spray painted across LeBron James’s home in Los Angeles, which shows that we still have an issue in our society. Racism is not as bad throughout college football specifically compared to how it was at the University of Alabama in the 1960s. More progressive southern coaches like Bear Bryant began to use integration as a way to not only expose his players to people of color, but to also increase the athleticism on his
...meant to harm them. Staples has been misjudged by the White woman, she put wrong images on him because he is a black. The outside people won’t understand all of the feelings inside a person who has been discriminated from someone, the misjudgments and untrue information is ruining an honor of the discrimination victim.
...ney: Controlling Black Bodies in the NBA." The Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Volume 30. Number 2. May 2006. (pp. 158-179)
When someone flips through the channels on a TV and they happen to pause on a sports game, they will most likely see a small number of white athletes. The next thing that they might see is a commercial trying to tell them that minorities in sports are being discriminated. This is not the case. There is no racial discrimination against minorities in sports. There is a much higher percentage of minorities than White-Americans in more than just one professional sport. There are also a number of high-ranking officials in sports that are minorities. Franchises pay money to the athletes that are most qualified to be put on the team; not to athletes that are not minority.
Professional sport heiress Christina Floyd was showing the film team around South Hampton which is considered the playground of the rich. One notable point in the movie is when they were touring the tennis courts and a person asked if a black man was a member. She replied that he was probably a pro, clearly defining that black people are not well accepted at the club. She even stated that the Jewish people she brought with her to lunch may not have been acceptable. This implies that with money come bigotry, racism and privilege that make it clear that certain people are excluded and if expected behaviors are broken there will be
He stated, "Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promote-broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to (Sterling)?" He also complained, "But why publicize it on the Instagram and why bring it to my games (Sterling)? " After the release of the recordings, the NBA community was in an uproar. In protest, the players of the Clippers wore their training jerseys inside out (Moore).
Dealing with the issue of sport and ethnology, three major factors come to mind; prejudice, racism, and discrimination. These factors span across gender, ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural groups. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss how these factors have played a part in the evolution of sport in our society. The first issue tackled in this paper will be racism in sports, followed by prejudice and discrimination.
Even though many organizations claim to be about equality and respect for their players and even their spectators—of color. It becomes evident that respect and equality is not the priority of the organization, which are headed by majority White males. For example, in 2014, the Atlanta Hawks, a sport organization with a roster majority of young Black men and its fans being nearly 70 percent Black came under criticism and investigation for racist comments made via email and phone conference. The racist comments that were made were by former Hawks owner, Bruce Levenson, and Hawks GM, Danny Ferry; Both White men. Both Levenson and Ferry were involved in two race controversies. Former Atlanta Hawks’ owner Bruce Levenson sent out an email to other Hawks CEOs stating that the audience and it entertainment (the team, cheerleaders, halftime talent, music selection, etc.) are all Black. Levenson continued to say in his email that because the audience and entertainment were majority Black, it was scaring aware White fans and investors from coming to the games (Joesph, 2014, USA Today. On the other hand, Hawks’ GM Danny Ferry was recorded during a conference call making defamatory remakes about free agent, at the time, Luol Deng who the Hawks were trying to acquire. During the call, Ferry professes that “ ‘[Deng] has a little African in him’ ”(ESPN.com). In the