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The NBA and Donald Sterling's Plantation Mentality
Another great day in NBA playoff action has become an afterthought thanks to the gossip website TMZ, which released a record of incredibly racist statements that it says were made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
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Another great day in NBA playoff action has become an afterthought thanks to the gossip website TMZ, which released a record of incredibly racist statements that it says were made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to his girlfriend, V. Stiviano. According to TMZ, Sterling was reacting to an Instagram photo Stiviano posted of her posing with NBA legend Magic Johnson. Here's a partial transcript:
As if all that isn't racist enough, at one point in the conversation, he chides her for being "a born fighter." "You have the worst mouth," he says, yet another play on the stereotype of the hotheaded Spicy Latina.