Sterling Banned from NBA

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Brighthouse

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You say you are a teacher and pastor Pastac humm perhaps you just missed seeing this scripture in your teaching!! 1 tim 5:1 I am older then you are bro! lol But you go right ahead and judge,seems that is what you are best at anyway. lol Takes a lot of practice to master, and since you claim to be a teacher you must also realize that a harsher judgment will be upon you as well. I take no offense, I just would wipe my feet before entering your Church is all. To not go in! Tough to see others clear from such a high teacher box is it not?? lol rom 12:3! blessing
 
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1 cor 13:4-8 This brothers and sisters is where we are suppose to be positioned. And if we are not standing here in Christ Jesus,then we are standing alone. Not a good idea at all!! I know!! I was stupid enough to do this once. LOL 2 peter 3:18 we cannot ever grow in grace standing alone.And we sure cannot receive any true knowledge by speaking in self, rather then from the Word either. Our master( Our Lord Jesus) teaches us many things,but if our foundation is not firm in his love( eph 3:17-19) then what power is working within us?? verses 20-21? Something for us all to consider is all saints! blessing.
 
Elizabeth619

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David_1 said:
I notice the ones that advocate for Corporate Freedom, are quick to abandon that notion when they need to come to the rescue of a racist bigot (or some other right winger that hates his neighbour).

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Speaking of bigots

big·ot

noun\ˈbi-gət\: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

David, you spend alot of time bashing "right wingers". Careful how you choose your words so you aren't accused of bigotry as well.
 
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You reckon the guy may be senile?
 
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SonInMe said:
Thing is this...

Its a public business that depends on public trust. If that trust is broken, then no one will go to NBA games and they all lose.

From a business standpoint I understand what the NBA did....they protected the product. In this extremely thin skinned era where you cannot even disagree politically with the president without being called a racist, the NBA had little choice.

How this information was gathered was criminal.

I believe it was a set-up. Magic Johnson was involved, wants to buy the team, even though he has denied it, and was the first to condemn Sterling on national tv.

Lets put some perspective on this situation. First what Sterling said was offensive...ok? However....

his gf who knows he is married, had a photo taken with Magic Johnson and then put it up on instagram. Then she calls him and asks very leading questions that exposes his racism...ok?

Think on that for a sec. Your gf, who knows you are married, which makes her a woman of loose morals, is taking a pic with Magic Johnson, a man proven to have the loosest morals, and HIV....wouldn't that kinda upset you?

....and wouldn't the gf KNOW that? Did it anyways and then set him up on a phone call, which was recorded with amazing sound quality?

With Magic Johnson who stands to get a great deal on a ''tarnished'' franchise and being black, of course, would make it all right. Obama will praise him and he will be a national hero once again.

Sterling should lose his team....and be paid for it....but the rest should go to jail too.

Instead Johnson will get some medal from our president.

Yeah, that is our country today.
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I think I should caution you that you are making way too many judgements on peoples character. That is dangerous territory.
 
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Brighthouse said:
Why a racist would never even have a race they hate so much as work for them!! And he sure would give them enough money to buy houses and cars, because he would be promoting that race!
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If he wanted his team to do well, he may very well seek out the best players regardless of race. If his desire for team success outweighs his racism, he'll hold his nose and hire black players.
 
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Drett said:
I think I should caution you that you are making way too many judgements on peoples character. That is dangerous territory.
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I don't think talking about a woman who intentionally sleeps with a married man and saying they have loose morals is really judging. He is calling it what it is. IMMORAL. She is no hero. She is no superwoman. She is a loose woman who set her rich married boyfriend up with the intention of exposing him. Of course Sterling is no Saint. I personally think he got what he asked for.
 
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JimJimmers said:
Here's another interesting wrinkle in the story. Obviously it's all hearsay at this point, but I found it worth a look through.


LA Clippers boss Donald Sterling is a violent bully who whipped son with a belt | Mail Online
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That;s a pretty interesting read, and I am not saying it isn't true(looks like it could be), but the biggest issue I have with this story is how Sterlings son, Scott is apparently not at fault for any of his actions. He threw a girl out of a window. He shot his best friend, and then he sadly overdosed and it is all his daddies fault. Sorry, but Scott made those choices. Not daddy. Doesn't matter how badly he was treated as a child, he had plenty of opportunity to rise from it, and chose not to.
 
SonInMe

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Drett said:
I think I should caution you that you are making way too many judgements on peoples character. That is dangerous territory.
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Anyone have a mirror?

A gf of a married man.....thats a good judgement I think.

An admitted promiscuous nba star with aids...he was married too.....judgement stands.
 
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Heard tonight on the radio that Sterling was banned from another business too..

the Bunny Ranch in Nevada....interesting. Getting banned from a brothel, that is pretty low.
 
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You say you are a teacher and pastor Pastac humm perhaps you just missed seeing this scripture in your teaching!! 1 tim 5:1 I am older then you are bro! lol But you go right ahead and judge,seems that is what you are best at anyway. lol Takes a lot of practice to master, and since you claim to be a teacher you must also realize that a harsher judgment will be upon you as well. I take no offense, I just would wipe my feet before entering your Church is all. To not go in! Tough to see others clear from such a high teacher box is it not?? lol rom 12:3! blessing
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What are you referencing you seem to be on one train and I another, I don't claim to be a teacher I am a teacher. And who is judging? Are you judging? You take no offense to what? As for wiping your feet in your condensing remark oh well your decision, just as it was for you to respond. I have stated several times brother I am not perfect but I am honest. I strive to be better each day and I live this I don't just post it I live it.My skin is not thin and I'm not easily offended but I am still a man and do get annoyed from time to time. As for your giving your opinion I read it and placed it in the file it needed to be in. Tough to speak with your foot in your mouth is it not.
 
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good point wrong analogy very bad example
 
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If he doesnt like black people he should have owned a hockey team instead.
 
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santuzza said:
So now we start down the slippery slope.

I'm a business owner that operates a store through Amazon. Say, from an illegally recorded and disseminated recording, Amazon found out that I believe homosexuality is a sin. Well, they might be offended by this and decide that they don't want me in their Marketplace. So they ban me. Now my business is greatly impaired, and I'm left limping along on my own.

Hmmmm.... Doesn't seem too far away considering what just happened to Sterling.

Any other thoughts?

And this is NOT to say that I don't think Sterling's remarks are repugnant -- they are -- but that's another issue entirely.
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That's how the world works. The NBA is a private organization that are not under the same rules as other businesses interacting with each other. It's not about what he did wrong, they put in their contract that at any time the NBA can ban them for any reason, and with a vote of a certain percentage, that person can be made to sell the team. That's perfectly legal because he agreed to it in the contract.

If Amazon put in a similar clause, they could indeed do that and not be held under the other laws that govern free enterprise. It's not about what is fair, it's about what is written.
 
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I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, too many long posts, but from what I've been hearing by a friend who has a lot more knowledge of the professional basketball world then I do, this has been going on for over 20 years. This is the first time they've been able to get proof on who he is and what he's done. He supposedly is well known in the basketball world for his racist view points and will not give players increased salaries because of their color. This is not a first time incident. It's just the first time he's been caught saying stuff.
 
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violakat said:
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, too many long posts, but from what I've been hearing by a friend who has a lot more knowledge of the professional basketball world then I do, this has been going on for over 20 years. This is the first time they've been able to get proof on who he is and what he's done. He supposedly is well known in the basketball world for his racist view points and will not give players increased salaries because of their color. This is not a first time incident. It's just the first time he's been caught saying stuff.
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Adding on to what I said, this is also a new commissioner and he's trying to show his toughness right off the bat.
 
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