As you know, wildly racist NBA Clippers owner Donald Sterling flamed out this weekend over the leaked audio recording. I had never heard of this guy before this weekend. But wow, what I was missing! Sterling is like the Rob Ford of the West Coast. A little more whack racism, seemingly less crack cocaine (but who knows?) – but somehow still kindred spirits nonetheless. But TPM Reader PK flagged to me more bizarreness and sleaze that there’s not even really a word for.
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It’s pretty awkward that the LA Chapter of the NAACP was scheduled to give Donald Sterling a lifetime achievement award in a couple weeks. Many of us had never heard Sterling’s name before this weekend. But for those who had, the fact that Sterling was a pretty big racist, both personally and in his business practices, was pretty well-known. So, Peter Dreier asks, why was the NAACP in so deep with him?
Leader of the “not racist” movement, Donald Trump, claims Sterling was “set up.”
As the “not racist” movement comes of age with leaders like Trump, Bundy and Sterling, we remember this pioneer in the movement from the middle of last decade. Video after the jump …
A good look at how Republicans nationwide tied themselves to Cliven Bundy and then were shocked when they sank with him.
Why was the LA NAACP in bed with Donald Sterling when there was a long history or racist attitudes and business practices?
Jonathan Taplin explains the deal with the new FCC decision that everyone seems to be freaking out about that creates a separate track for video streaming. He should know — he helped write the principles the new decision is based on back in 2006.
Looks like desperate right-wing efforts to make Sterling into the “Democrat Bundy” have taken a bit of a hit.
Turns out he’s a registered Republican.
Coming off of the news of a new study saying that the U.S. is closer to an “oligarchy” than a democracy, academic Nick Carnes brings up his own research that might just explain why: We keep electing the rich to public office. Carnes writes, “just 3 percent [of members of Congress] came from the kinds of working-class jobs that the majority of Americans hold.”