04-29-2014, 09:48 PM
From the Los Angeles Times, in 2009:
In 2009, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP honored Donald Sterling with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Soon after the announcement was made, much of the world learned of Sterling's unrepentant racism thanks to Elgin Baylor's employment discrimination lawsuit.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling, accused of racism and embracing a "vision of a Southern plantation-type structure" in a lawsuit filed in February by Elgin Baylor, will be given a lifetime achievement award next week by the NAACP. . . .
Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the civil rights organization, says of the much-maligned Sterling, "He has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A.," revealing that the owner donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for nearly every Clippers home game.
Noting that the NAACP had made plans to honor Sterling before Baylor filed suit, Jenkins says, "We can't speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/06/.../sp-crowe6
What's interesting is why is this all coming to light just now... He has been a jerk for years yet no one seemed to take him to task until recently. I see the NAACP is going to return the money he's given them (although we don't know how much) but what about the other donations to orgs like the Black Business Association, 100 Black Men, the United Negro College Fund, etc., that he's made that have been accepted willingly. And then he gets rewarded for it!
This girl is obviously a con artist-I mean, jeez, four aliases? Maybe he asked her to record it to keep track but how did TMZ get it? A plan to blackmail him? She already has enough money from her other endeavors...
I think his (still) wife will get the team in a divorce settlement after all is said and done. She is a great supporter of the team.
Ah, money...OK, maybe some sex, too. But it's what this all boils down to. Just follow the money.
In 2009, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP honored Donald Sterling with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Soon after the announcement was made, much of the world learned of Sterling's unrepentant racism thanks to Elgin Baylor's employment discrimination lawsuit.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling, accused of racism and embracing a "vision of a Southern plantation-type structure" in a lawsuit filed in February by Elgin Baylor, will be given a lifetime achievement award next week by the NAACP. . . .
Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the civil rights organization, says of the much-maligned Sterling, "He has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A.," revealing that the owner donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for nearly every Clippers home game.
Noting that the NAACP had made plans to honor Sterling before Baylor filed suit, Jenkins says, "We can't speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/06/.../sp-crowe6
What's interesting is why is this all coming to light just now... He has been a jerk for years yet no one seemed to take him to task until recently. I see the NAACP is going to return the money he's given them (although we don't know how much) but what about the other donations to orgs like the Black Business Association, 100 Black Men, the United Negro College Fund, etc., that he's made that have been accepted willingly. And then he gets rewarded for it!
This girl is obviously a con artist-I mean, jeez, four aliases? Maybe he asked her to record it to keep track but how did TMZ get it? A plan to blackmail him? She already has enough money from her other endeavors...
I think his (still) wife will get the team in a divorce settlement after all is said and done. She is a great supporter of the team.
Ah, money...OK, maybe some sex, too. But it's what this all boils down to. Just follow the money.