"I'm Only Racist When I'm Horny!"

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This seems to summarize the contents of a taped conversation leaked by an unnamed source in explanation of Donald Sterling supposed "racist rant" that got him in so much difficulty with the National Basketball Association. As far as "racist rants" go, I would dare to say Donald Sterling's remarks were relatively tame. He did not use the "N word" even once! He did not refer to African-Americans as "colored" or "negroes" at any time. I suspected all along that his request directed at his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, to refrain from being photographed with black men or to refrain from accompanying black men to the +Los Angeles Clippers  basketball games was born of deep insecurity and intense jealousy.

"Ridiculous!", you say. Well, not as I see it. Donald Sterling may have the old plantation mentality but last time I checked, a man is entitled to say what he likes in the privacy of his own home and in the company of family and friends. As for the tape released albeit indirectly by Ms. Stiviano, I find her actions suspect, deplorable and tantamount to extortion! And last time I checked, extortion and blackmail are criminal offenses, while outdated thinking is not.

I really should not have to teach American history to Americans but for those who have forgotten, the basis of all those antiquated laws that date back to the Old South were designed to protect delicate, chaste, southern ladies from being preyed upon by the big, black bucks with their long shlongs and rampant, uncontrolled sexuality that would defile those genteel ladies and unleash all sorts of real and imagined ills upon society. Of course, the same standards did not apply to the genteel gentlemen that owned the plantations. They were free to be roving penises among their female slaves and to father innumerable children with them, thus supplying a steady and predictable workforce for their plantations.

That an 82 year-old man could fall in love with some gold-digging bitch (and Donald Sterling is a very rich old man) is hardly unbelievable to me or to almost anyone else. That he would want to get into her pants is entirely believable too! How many men in love have tried to extract promises of exclusivity or undying love and affection from their mistresses? How many men in love have not perceived other men, black, white, younger, perhaps richer as a potential threat to their love interest?  We may shake our heads, or secretly think of Donald Sterling as a silly, old fool but seriously does he really deserve the 'punishment' meted out by Adam Silver, the grand pubah of the NBA, to lose his team or to be divested of the family trust he and his wife own?

A lawyer by education and litigious by nature, Donald Sterling is unlikely to go down without a fight. It is a sad comment on American society when a man or woman can lose his or her property or income due to a private conversation. It is deeply troubling to me that no one is terribly concerned as to what laws have been broken in the course of making these taped conversations public. I have listened to endless bullshit, especially from the politically correct broadcasters at +CNN  and their endless guests (generally black or mixed race) babbling on about a conversation we need to have about race in North America. They don't want a conversation! They want everyone to agree with their particular brand of socially acceptable behavior! Well, I don't agree!

And could someone please teach black people how to pronounce the word 'ask'. Mispronouncing  a simple, single syllable word continually strikes me as lazy and unintelligent in the extreme, not to mention deeply insulting to me as an immigrant.

What's next? The 'thought police'?

 

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