yesterday I brought you the story I've 81-year-old Donald sterling is half
Mexican half black
girlfriend on alternate sterling is of course the owner the professional
basketball team
the Los Angeles Clippers there are recordings purportedly if sterling going
on incredible tirades about black people
about his goal girlfriend hanging out with black people about how
it's embarrassing for him when his friends call him about pictures on her
with black people on her Instagram feed including
for example magic johnson %ah in the midst of this may be because
have the absolute disaster that has taken place for the American right wing
because idk live in bundy's fall from grace
after he wondered whether the Negro might not be better off
as a cotton picking slave some conservatives seized upon
the apparent democratic identification of Donald sterling I say a parent for a
couple of reasons
number one yesterday I mention that some viewers had emailed me saying I wouldn't
mention that he's a democrat or that I might not cover it all
here's actually one voicemail I got from the San Antonio troll
about this exact issue take a listen and David
chosen as governor just wanna you were %uh a little suggestion on how to go
about before the start
there also are yeah I would not report it i'm talking about you know the race
so I put this on ur
because he was a Democrat he said call him a call officials attributed
the Democratic Party right so I so let's just forget about it
keep it under local the personal loan losses not even talk about it
of course I did talk about the story and I did talk about his democratic
donations
which by the way aren't necessarily proof the democratic party affiliation I
mentioned yesterday Donald sterling donated to some Democrats in the early
nineteen nineties
if you wanna see this story exclusively through the lens of political donations
that he made more than twenty years ago
by all means have at it was exactly what I said yesterday
now conservative stayed really focused on Sterling's assume the democratic
party ID
because they want to point out that hey there are racists in the democratic
party
unfortunately Louis this entire thing
fell apart yesterday when Mother Jones found out
the Donald sterling happens to be a registered Republican
LA Times car columnist Michael Hiltzik tweeted that
the local voter records show sterling to be a registered Republican
since 1998 mother jones following up on that is able to confirm the same
information looking at LA county's registrar
website however I still maintain the exact same position I had yesterday
which is
I don't think this is really about party identification this is not a hugely
political guy
it's really about him being primarily a bigot racist now according according to
many right-wing media outlets his party ID
is really important at least that was when it appeared to be democratic right
Louis
National Review ran a blog post called racist Clippers owner
is a democrat Fox Nation report
Clippers owner caught in racist rant is a democratic donor
Matt Drudge NBA sterling is a democrat and on and on and on
of course there are racists in the democratic party
there are Republican and Democratic racists their
independent libertarian a political
and all sorts the racists however we know
or a fact that of course while not nearly all Republicans are racist
American racists are disproportionately
members of the Republican Party and I still maintain
it doesn't much matter in this story I hope the republicans have fun with this
one
this is a great 10 also I think if you look at the majority of billionaire
sports team owners I they usually are republicans when you look at the
the number of billionaires in this country multi-millionaires
I'm there's a trend they happen
usually bow Republican because it's in their best interest yeah I don't even
know I
you that may be true I don't have that data but what we do know is that all of
a sudden nobody on the right
is talking about Donald Sterling's party identification now that we know he is a
republican
and I don't care really doesn't matter to this story we should here pretty soon
made by tomorrow what action the NBA will be taking
against Donald sterling if any this is viewer supported independent media
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