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Kareem Slam Dunk
By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 5:33am |As usual (for me) Kareem manages to hit all the right points in just a few paragraphs, making sure everyone has a share of our cultural discomfort.
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http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/
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Kareem makes sure 'everyone has a share of discomfort' for not 'getting' racist Sterling for all those years....except for......Kareem.
Kareem who worked for Sterling for 3 months, who never once in his position as an NBA player, coach and legend did squat to publicly or privately confront Sterling, never put himself at legal risk to expose or attack Sterling's well heeled racist ass, never lobbied the NBA to get rid of the guy.
Kareem now calls the act that finished off this piece of crap owner, as 'sleazy'.
He 'hopes' the girlfriend who did the public service goes to jail.
Pardon, but Kareem comes across as a bombastic self loving gutless jerk.
by NCD on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 11:50am
One point of clarification. When he worked for Sterling, there wasn't any evidence so to say that he held the views that he did. The landlord stuff came out six or so years later. At the time he worked for him, he seemed like your normal billionaire white guy, even inviting Kareem to his daughter's wedding (as a guest I presume, and not one of the hired help).
by Elusive Trope on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 11:56am
Oh really? True, but is racism like the clap that you pick up on vacation in Italy?
So Sterling became racist 6 years ago? And if he invited The Great Kareem to his daughter's wedding it means he hadn't picked up that racist disease yet?
The irrelevant wedding story sounds like Kareem is either making excuses for his own inaction or presenting himself as a character witness for the magnanimity of Sterling.
OK so, what the hell did Kareem do the last six years? Zippo. Nothing.
Who the hell is the Great Kareem to sit in his multi-million dollar mansion and gloat over his hopes that this young woman, who did more to get this guy than Kareem would do in 7 lifetimes, should go to jail?
Frankly, to clarify, Kareem comes across as a gutless creep.
Small minded self centered people are always ready and willing to find fault in others, never in themselves. Kareem is a prime example.
This is my last comment on this 7 foot five inches of nothing and his op-eds.
by NCD on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 12:17pm
Shorter NCD: "I have nothing to say, so it must be worse than thought"
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 12:34pm
Sounds like a Celtics fan sucking on sour grapes.
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 05/04/2014 - 6:01pm
Let me fix this for ya'...
That's more like it.
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 05/04/2014 - 6:12pm
That didn't fix it OGD.
You didn't explain why a guy who said today (TPM)
" You know I didn't feel that there was any racial animus in the man," he said on ABC about first meeting Sterling. "But when I saw what was just portrayed there, you know, how he discriminated against blacks and other minorities it started to bother me."
and also said (original link)
I hope whoever made this illegal tape is sent to prison.
Doesn't raise some real questions about the guy mouthing all this off to the media.
He didn't say "Both myself and the NBA owe a debt of gratitude to whoever released this tape that reveals the real Donald Sterling. In the event the person is charged with a crime, I would contribute to the defense".
What he did say had a hint of plantation mentality, 'If they wronged the big white boss, they gonna get a whuppin'.
The tape 'bothered' Kareem.... he thinks whoever made it should go to jail....
It's never been proven yet the tape was even illegal.
There have been no indictments, there has been no trial.
But Kareem 'hopes' for prison time for 'whoever' made it. That's the thanks he gives to his awakener.
Kareem never did squat to expose this guy over his entire career in the NBA, he is either gutless or a easily duped naif with no concept of how the justice system works, and with a big yapper.
I already plead guilty to a big yapper, so you can forgo doing a cute repost on that point.
by NCD on Sun, 05/04/2014 - 8:42pm
Kareem played for the Bucks & the Lakers, not the Clippers, during his "entire career". He worked for the Clippers ~2000-2002 and didn't see anything untoward. The discrimination suits were in 2006-2009, when various Sterling statements were public record and known to the NBA. Elgin Baylor's suit was in 2009. So now it's all Kareem's fault because he made a comment?
Plus the Sterlings sued a previous Donald bimbo in 2003, so this is well-trod public ground - but having a freak bimbo mascot is okay to represent seriousness as a club owner - think of it is an upscale family-oriented Hooters program for rich magnates. And now Stiviano declares she was only his best friend and "funny bunny" - fill in your own mental images. A star is born.
I'm sure Kareem was on the receiving end of too much paparazzi bullshit to think of the media as perfectly innocent and helpful and enablers of the truth, especially leaking recordings in the middle of a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
[I will say Kareem's thinking more white people believe in ghosts than racism was rather awkward - just a bunch of crackers with head in the sand and strange delusions? which whites deny racism, aside from the weirdo grazing cattle out west and those who think Obama was born in Kenya - i.e the whacko right?]
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/05/2014 - 12:13am
Plenty deny it. Many of them went to my high school.
The reflexive protest about blacks playing the "race card" sort of shows that many whites believe racism doesn't exist and/or don't want to look at it.
I do agree that Kareem brings out much of the complexity of the issue these days. I don't know--and think it's unlikely--that Sterling wasn't a racist before and then became one. (I guess one or two really bad experiences could warp a person's views that way, but I see no evidence of such a "life changing" experience.)
More likely, Sterling's racism or racist views haven't fully defined his life. As they say, it wasn't a "top of mind" topic for him. Most days, it never came up. It wasn't built into the fabric of his life in that way (his landlordship dealings excepted, perhaps). Most days, it stayed in the background.
So I'm sure that Kareen didn't encounter a man who was obviously a racist, and it's likely that he didn't go looking for it. Then again, it's possible that he purposely overlooked it because his relationship with Sterling was a financial and career benefit. Who knows?
These sound-bite-ish articles and analysis don't delve deeply enough.
by Anonymous PS (not verified) on Mon, 05/05/2014 - 8:12am
Kareem Abdul Jabbar appeared on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" noting that racism remains a significant problem. Twenty-eight percent of Whites believe that it is OK to discriminate against Blacks in housing. Forty-percent of Whites believe that Whites work harder than Blacks. As Jabbar stated, more Whites believe in ghosts than in the existence of racism. Kareem nailed it.
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/04/2014 - 6:28pm