Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, told his girlfriend during a recorded argument that he did not want her bringing black people to his basketball games, according to audio obtained and put online Friday by TMZ.
According to TMZ, the argument took place on April 9, after Sterling’s girlfriend, V. Stiviano, posted a photograph on Instagram of her posing with NBA legend Magic Johnson. On the tape, Sterling also told Stiviano not to bring Johnson to games.
“You can sleep with [black people],” Sterline says on the tape. “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.”
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” Sterling also says. “Do you have to?”
In the recording, Stiviano says she herself is “black and Mexican… whether you like it or not.”
According to TMZ, Sterling has previously been sued by former Clippers executive Elgin Baylor for racial discrimination, although the suit was unsuccessful.
In response to the audio tape, Johnson told TMZ it was “a shame that Donald Sterling feels that way about African-Americans.”
“He has a team full of amazing African-American basketball players that are working to bring a championship to Clippers fans,” Johnson said. “The Clippers also have a strong minority fan base.”
You can listen to the tape here.
These guys are like goddamn cockroaches -they’re everywhere. Good thing theres no racism anymore in 'Murica cause otherwise we might have a real problem.
I’m afraid that the big, big money in sports has brought out the worst in these owners–getting filthy rich from the talents and labor of others seems to derange people. In this case, the guy doesn’t even realize what side his own bread is buttered on.
This is obviously Martin Luther King’s fault because he didn’t finish the job. Cliven Bundy told me so.
It’s really wonderful how Obama’s election means there’s no such thing as white racism any more, isn’t it?
Donald Sterling is indistinguishable from a slaveholding plantation owner in Mississippi in 1860, right down to his attitudes about sex. He’s happy to sleep with a black woman, and doesn’t mind if she sleeps with other black men, but for God’s sake just don’t bring them blacks to the plantation owner’s front door.
What a nasty POS this man is.
He makes money on the talents of black men.
He sleeps with black women . . . .
But he hates black people.
Paging Dr. Freud and the KKK.