Wrong is Wrong, Except When It Isn't

Hello My Dear Friends. Here we go again. Let me start by saying that what LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling said was ignorant and wrong. No one is defending what he said. It was offensive. But, once again, we are witnessing the profound double standard that this Country has adopted. Sterling has been banned for life from the NBA. He can not associate with the team in any way. He can never attend another NBA game. The league says it will do everything in it's power to force Sterling to sell his team. He was also fined the maximum $2.5 million dollars. Wow. Sterling didn't make his remarks publicly. They weren't part of a speech or official statement. They were made, in private, in his own home, to his then "girlfriend". Double standard? You be the judge.
Speaking before a panel at Howard University Law School, which was broadcast live on C-Span, Professor Kamau Kambon said, "We have to exterminate white people of the face of the planet". There were no repercussions. Paula Deen admitted to using the "n-word" decades before. She was stripped of everything. During an interview with Bill O'Reilly, author and radio personality Quannel X said, "I say in the words of Malcolm X, if you find any good white people, kill them now before they turn bad". There were no repercussions. Let's take a look a the political landscape, shall we? Democrat Chris Dodd praised fellow democrat Robert Byrd, a former Klansman, saying he "would have been a great Senator at any moment in time". Including, I suppose, when he was running around Virginia in a white hood. Dodd later apologized for his "poor choice of words". All was forgiven. Republican Trent Lott was praising fellow republican Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist, saying if he had been elected President, America wouldn't have "all these problems". He later apologized repeatedly. He was forced to resign. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. It's not so much what you say, it's who says what.  So, Donald Sterling's words will cost him dearly. Or, as Snoop Dogg so elegantly referred to him yesterday, "That F**king, white bread, redneck piece of sh*t". Again, I guess it's who says what.
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