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okaawhatever

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Sun Apr 27, 2014, 01:41 PM Apr 2014

Your Complete Quotable Guide To Decades Of Clippers Owner Sterling's Racism

Donald Sterling's latest act of racism is far from his first. To fully grasp how loathsome the Los Angeles Clippers owner's bigotry is and the extent to which it influences his personal and professional life, we've collected a selection of the worst statements attributed to Sterling.


I wanna know why you think you can coach these ni**ers.
(To potential coach Rollie Massimino, 1983)

That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean.
(To a property supervisor, 2002, sworn testimony.)

And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day.
(Ibid.)

I don't have to spend any more money on them, they will take whatever conditions I give them and still pay the rent.
(On Koreans, sworn testimony.)

In 2009 Sterling was subject to the largest housing discrimination lawsuit payout ever, related to his attempts to evict blacks and Hispanics from his properties. In 2011 he testified that he did not know Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor had been a basketball player at the time Baylor was hired by the Clippers. That same year, he celebrated Black History Month in the wrong month.

Oh, and then there's all the sexual harassment lawsuits and Sterling's demands that women "let me put it in [...] or suck on it."

When you pay a woman for sex, you are not together with her. You're paying her for a few moments to use her body for sex. Is it clear? Is it clear?
(Sterling's own sworn testimony, 2003.)


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Your Complete Quotable Guide To Decades Of Clippers Owner Sterling's Racism (Original Post) okaawhatever Apr 2014 OP
Completely vile. nt WhiteTara Apr 2014 #1
And The NAACP Was Going to Give otohara Apr 2014 #2
What a piece of shit shenmue Apr 2014 #3
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