So the NBA hung Sterling from the highest rim in America with just about everyone applauding his public execution. But where is the concern about racism in so many NBA actions? Is racism only white versus black? Is it true, as Spike Lee has suggested, that blacks cannot be racist? Hypocrisy, as La Rouchfoucaud contended, is the tribute vice pays virtue. In the case of the NBA, virtue is selective. Racism should be wrong, period. It doesnt only apply to eighty year old misguided miscreants. It applies as well to the African-American players, rap artists and even those anointed by President Obama as cultural icons. If the NBA were a stand-up league, it would respond to racism in its ranks as it responded to Sterling. I am not counting on the dawning of a new day, but forgive me when I examine with suspicion the self-congratulations of the NBA. It is one thing to do the right thing, yet quite another when the right position is ignored on some occasions and exercised in others.
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 19:16:19 +0000
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