Wednesday, April 30, 2014

This'll be fun to watch-----Drew Sharp: OK, so Donald Sterling is gone; now it's up to NBA to diversify its ownership

Drew Sharp: OK, so Donald Sterling is gone; now it's up to NBA to diversify its ownership | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
They nailed a racist.
Congratulations.
Big whoop!
You took down a fool old enough and rich enough not to care about applying a filter when voicing his toxic thoughts.
But this is hardly an impressive victory in the bigger battle.
This was appeasement, nothing more than throwing activists still trapped in the civil rights scrums of the 1960s crumbs to quietly pacify them and con them into believing that everyone’s engaged in the same fight.
The NBA didn’t address the legitimate concerns of institutional racism within league ownership. 

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