The national NAACP on Tuesday requested a meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to address the racist comments allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
“The NAACP is eager to meet with Commissioner Silver to discuss the influence and impact of racism in the National Basketball Association,” Roslyn Brock, chair of the NAACP Board of Directors, said in a statement. “The remarks attributed to Mr. Sterling remind us that racism and bigotry are still alive and well in all corners of society – including professional sports.”
The NAACP also said it would like to work with other organizations to address the alleged remarks and Sterling’s role in the NBA.
“The harm inflicted by these comments has damaged the players, the fans and the NBA brand. We empathize with the athletes who are being asked to perform under these most difficult of circumstances. Our heart goes out to them and their families. We look forward to working with the NBA commissioner to examine how we can address these critical issues in a comprehensive way,” Brock said in the statement.
The NBA will announce at 2 p.m. on Tuesday the results of its investigation of an audio recording that purportedly captured Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to his games.
The NBA Players Association would like Commissioner Silver to impose the “maximum sanctions” on Sterling for his comments.
The NAACP needs to sit back and keep their mouth shut on this matter.
They had to have known Sterling is a racist because of his many other racist comments and actions, but instead, they gave him an award and took his money and was in the works to give him another award.
They are nothing but hypocrites for speaking out now against him. They seem to like or was okay with the racist when they were taking his money.
I was actually thinking the same thing until I saw that this was the national NAACP, not the local LA chapter of the NAACP which is the organization that actually planned to give him an award. The national NAACP had nothing to do with any of this, and for that reason I do think they need to get involved to make clear that there is a difference. More importantly, they need to get involved with policing the local chapters to some degree. It should go without saying that you don’t hand out awards to people who have routinely shown themselves to be racist.
Shouldn’t the national NAACP first be meeting with the fucking venal, corrupt, money-grubbing LA NAACP to discuss the moral limits to shameful grifting? Clean house bit before inviting others into the smelly sty?
And you know what, Plucky? That even goes double if just you happen to be, of all parties, the NAACP!
LOL For shit’s sake, you’d think a NAACP chapter would be, oh I dunno, sensitive to issues of race and racism. SMDH