After a weekend for the story to marinate, everybody’s sounding off about Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist comments. Even the President. He said, “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”
But other people do want something done. LIke taking away the team. The remarks happened during an aurguement with Sterling’s girlfriend, who happens to be half black and half Latino, over her posting pictures of “certain people” on Instagram. Certain people who are black. All of it caught on a voice recording that came out Friday. Since then, league players have protested, and the team has lost some sponsors.
And President Obama wasn’t the only power player to criticize him. Yesterday, Bobcats owner Michael Jordan released a statement: “As an owner, I’m obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views. I’m confident that Adam Silver will make a full investigation and take appropriate action quickly.”
The man Mike is talking about is Adam Silver, the new commissioner of the NBA. And the question has been: Will the league force Sterling out by makinghim sell the team. Which is a good question, because only the owners and their lawyers know what makes up the constitution of the league. It’s not clear if his comments violated anything, other than common morality.
So even though it’s not clear whether Sterling violated any specific rules, do you think he should be forced out of the league? Our Man on the Edge, Robert Wilder, hit the streets to find out…
