No World For The "Donald"
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- Category: Lifestyle/People
- Published: Sunday, 27 April 2014 18:37
- Written by Adam Blackmon
by Adam Blackman
"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people." "You can sleep with them. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it and not to bring them to my games."
Donald Tokowitz (Sterling) was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to Los Angeles, when he was two years old. His parents, Susan and Mickey, were Jewish immigrants. He graduated from California State University (Class of 1956) and Southwestern University School of Law (Class of 1960), both in Los Angeles.
In 1961,Donald Tokowits started his law career. As a Jew, Donald Tokowits realized he had no chance to work for a prestigious law firm. So he changed his last name to Sterling (which means pure) and built a divorce and personal injury law practice, as a sole practitioner.
His biggest ventures were in real estate, which he began when he purchased a 26-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills.
Fast forward, in 1979, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, suggested to Sterling that he buy
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San Diego Clippers. He did so with $12.5 million. The Clippers, which he moved to Los Angeles, struggled through many lackluster seasons, and they did not have their first winning season until the 1991-92 season.
The true Donald Not-so-Sterling (meaning Not-so-Pure) begins to emerge. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the "Donald" for housing discrimination. The Justice Department charged that Sterling refused to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown neighborhood and to African Americans in Beverly Hills. The suit alleged that the "Donald" once said he did not like to rent to Hispanics because they "smoke, drink and just hang around the building," and that "Black tenants smell and attract vermin." Vermin!
In 2009, it is reported that the Not-so-Sterling Donald agreed to pay a fine of $2.73 million to settle the Justice Department matter. As result of the settlement, the Not-so-Sterling "Donald" pledge to spend $50 million on a site on the eastern end of Los Angeles to provide services for the homeless population. Not surprising, nothing was built. The 411 is that the Not-so-Sterling "Donald" bought the property purely for its real-estate value.
That same year, Hall-of-Famer Elgin Baylor who spent 22 years as general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers sued Donald Sterling for employment discrimination on the basis of age and race. The lawsuit alleges Sterling told Baylor that he wanted to fill his team with "poor black boys from the South and a white head coach".
While Baylor's salary was frozen for 6-years at comparatively paltry $350,000; the "White Head Coach" was given a four-year - $22-million contract.
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Family Problems: In 1999, Sterling's son, Scott, was arrested for shooting his childhood friend, Philip Scheid, at his father's Beverly Hills mansion. Sterling blasted Scheid in the back from at least 15 feet away with a 12 gauge shotgun. Both teenagers were involved with Lindsey McKeon, a young actress on the TV sitcom 'Saved by the Bell.' Scheid told police, "Sterling gets crazy when it comes to her." Sounds familiar. Sterling claimed self-defense and no charges were filed. In 2013, Scott Sterling was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in a Malibu apartment owned by the "Donald."
The Not-so-Sterling "Donald" who is separated from his wife, has a Black mixed with Mexican girl friend young enough to be his daughter. No knock on her, but the girl moved up the food chain from ballplayers to an owner. She was supposed to be his daintily little lady. I'm laughing as I write this. Daintily, she probably knows half of the NBA. And he knows it. So he's pissed that she wants to not only hang out with the enemy, Black people, but wants to advertise it. And, he has to hear it from his racist friends. Embarrassing!
Thus, the "Donalds" racist rants we all have heard about Black people and Magic Johnson.
The "Donald" sleeps sort-of-Black and makes his money on the backs of Black ballplayers, but he
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doesn't want anything to do with them (us) socially. Slave owner did the same thing, Sleep with Nelly at night and work Buck all the daylong up and the down the long rows of cotton.
The races must socialize separately. Because in his mind, as he was raised and taught by society, "that is how the world is."
This is nothing new, our beloved President John Kennedy disinvited Sammy Davis, Jr., from his inauguration in 1961, because Davis had just married the Swedish actress May Britt. They were married on November 13, 1960; because rumor has it that Robert F. Kennedy told Frank Sinatra to tell Davis not to marry May until after the 1960 Presidential Election. The election was on November 8th.
I give Kennedy a little slack, because at that time laws in 31 states forbade interracial marriage. He needed the state of Texas to win.
But what excuse gave we give the Not-so-Sterling "Donald?" None. And, what excuse shall we give racism and racist behavior going forward? None.
I am not shocked by this behavior or thinking. It is how many in power or aspiring to power or think they have power by birthright or skin color actually think. Think to yourself; when is the last time your boss or powerful downtown friend invited you to his or her home for dinner, to meet the family or just hang-out?
Samuel L. Jackon's character tells his lawyer played by Matthew McConaughey, "Friends, When did we become friends?" Does your wife know my wife, those your daughter play with my daughter, so tell me when did we become friends?"
The Not-so-Sterling "Donald" provides a real peering look into the racial relations that exist in America as George Wallace famously shouted, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Should we accept this? No! And we shall not accept the Not-so-Sterling "Donald's" or any other racist idiot's view of the world.
Theodore Parker, an Unitarian minister who in 1857 while preaching against the evil of Slavery, stated, "Look at the facts of the world. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And, from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."
Dr. King said it this way, "Evil may so shape events that Caesar will occupy a palace and Christ a cross, but that same Christ arose and split history into A.D. and B.C., so that even the life of Caesar must be dated by his name. Yes, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
And so, we must not accept a world as defined by the likes of Donald Sterling. He and his kind must be held accountable. No more excuses and no more passes.
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