jonny three time wrote:lander wrote:RaptorJ wrote:He's been like this for many years and done worse things before. Telling the girl he doesn't want her hanging with blacks is hardly as bad as paying his black employees less or embarrassing his black players with slave master language.
btw I'm sure Silver's too busy making sure his refs push the Nets into the 2nd round by **** the Raptors up the **** than to deal with Donald Sterling. **** Silver.
My question is, why in God's name would you buy a basketball team if you hate black people?
Because then you can watch them make money for you, entertain you and feel superior. 21st version of a 19th century concept.
Ya man. That's what every Klansman grows up dreaming of. To become rich enough to buy an NBA team, then only play Black players 15 million a year when they could be making 20 million a year. That'll keep em down!
Players agree to a collective bargaining agreement as a union. Not only that but by limiting how much the top players make you ensure that there will be more jobs for players. If you took away the cap and salary restrictions it could easily lead to teams folding due to the economics and the growing disparity of the "have" teams and the "have not" teams. Trust me, nobody buys an NBA team out of racism. It isn't proof that he isn't racist either. It's just a business/hobby for rich guys to show off, like their girlfriends who are 50 years younger than them.
Sorry but your argument is overly simplistic and fails to understand how the world works.
Really, we're in the 21st century, times have changed and so have racist. I didn't say he bought the team because he's racist, I said it makes sense why it doesn't bother him that he pays black players millions. He feels ownership over these players. They are beneath him in his mind and fact that he pays them is prove to him they are. He watches them knowing they are their to entertain him and they make even more money. There's a history of this, the former owner of the Cincinnati Reds comes to mind.
