Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Melissa Debling, Jessica Davies, Danica Thrall, and Holly Eriksson
Nonprofit Fundraising Groups Promoting Inequality at Newport-Mesa Unified School District
I've been worried about these problems for a long time. I teach lots of students who come from majority-minority public schools (a real problem in Long Beach), and it's just one more factor that explains their inadequate academic preparation and difficulties in achieving student success. (This is, in fact, the main problem facing my college as an institution, but as noted the cause is not just de facto school segregation).
In any case, a fascinating example that I've been closely familiar with for a long time is the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. Newport Beach is one of the most affluent cities in the state, in not the country. And right next door is Costa Mesa, a nice city, very beautiful, but extremely diverse and a longtime magnet for recent immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. I often refer to it as the O.C.'s "Little Santa Ana."
Sunday's Costa Mesa Daily Pilot ran a great front-page report on this, "Unintended consequence of foundation groups: inequality":
The median income in Newport Beach hovered around $109,677, according to U.S. Census data collected between 2008 and 2012, whereas it was $65,373 in Costa Mesa for the same time period.So, while you can see the clear disparities in economic resources between the Newport Beach schools and those of Costa Mesa, the fact remains that even if spending were 100 percent equal on all the money raised by the nonprofits, educational performance among the Newport Beach students would far surpass the performance of kids in Costa Mesa schools. The reasons for this are found in the intangible factors that regressive leftists refuse to talk about. Things like the breakdown of the family in minority communities, illiteracy (particularly among poorer minority families and recent immigrant children), and cultural disadvantages that have longstanding bases in the natural dynamics of social strata in American society. Very little of these things can be changed by equalizing funding. Change has to come about through larger public policies that strengthen families and communities among very traditional and conservative lines. In a word, "values" matter. There will be little improvement in educational outcomes among the disadvantaged until regressive leftists stop blaming "structural inequality," "racism," and "white privilege," and start building families and communities from the bottom up, along the lines of upward mobility that have marked successful ethnic groups throughout American history.
In Newport-Mesa Unified, there are 13 foundations serving schools on an individual level. Out of the 20 schools in Costa Mesa, there are four foundations serving Costa Mesa Middle School and High School, TeWinkle Middle School and Estancia High School, Kaiser Elementary and Woodland Elementary, and California Elementary. The nonprofits raised about $484,000 in 2012, according to tax forms.
There are nine foundations serving the 12 schools in Newport Beach. In all, they raised about $3.6 million in 2012, according to the organizations' tax forms.
The only group that funds all of the district's schools is the Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation, which provides money to individual teachers through a grant program, said Barbara Harrington, president of the Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation.
In 2012, the organization raised slightly more than $1 million, according to tax forms.
When the Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation was first formed in the 1980s, it raised money to provide services like extra music teachers and instruments for schools, similar to how current foundations operate at individual campuses, Harrington said.
However, more-affluent communities became upset that they were raising money for teachers on the poorer side of town, she said. In response, the organization changed the way it operates.
"If you try to equalize it, and people see that more money is coming from the Eastside and funding the poorer areas, you'd find that people on the Eastside wouldn't give as much the next year," she said.
While the pockets may not be as deep in some Costa Mesa schools compared with Newport Beach communities, student education doesn't suffer, DeVusser said.
"We don't have a foundation that sits behind us and asks us what we need," he said. "We do have incredible teachers that work every day to make sure kids are receiving a quality education, regardless of where they live."
The Costa Mesa High School Foundation has been expanding in recent years in order to access more donors and be comparable to other foundations in more-affluent areas, said Foundation President and Newport-Mesa Board Trustee Katrina Foley.
Foundations have proven to help schools deal with education cutbacks handed down from the state in recent years, she said.
"Foundations should come in and pay for the extras," she said. "We need to get back to that."
Rush Limbaugh: Donald Sterling's a 'Typical Hollywood Liberal...'
See, "Mock Shock: Donald Sterling is a Typical Hollywood Racist -- and Everyone Knew It."
Actually, I'm just calling out Sterling as the ultimate RINO, lol.
.@hiltzikm #DonaldSterling is literally RINO, since ALL his contributions go to #DEMS AND far-left ballot measures: http://t.co/569f1LsTgs
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 29, 2014
PREVIOUSLY: "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!"
Secretary of State John Kerry Excoriated for Israel 'Apartheid' Slur
It's all over the place. Democrats, leftists, Beverly Hills liberals: It's just hate, hate, hate. Nonstop hate.
At the Daily Beast, "Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’."
Also from Erika Johnsen, at Hot Air, "Ted Cruz: John Kerry should resign over that “apartheid” comment."
A bunch of Democrats have even condemned Secretary Lurch.
See especially Jonathan Tobin, at Commentary, "Kerry’s Apartheid Slur Sabotages Peace":
Last Friday while speaking to a closed meeting of the Trilateral Commission, Secretary of State John Kerry raised the ante in his bid to keep his Middle East peace initiative alive. While lamenting the latest collapse of the talks, Kerry cast blame for the outcome on both Israel and the Palestinians but made it clear that the consequences for the former would be far more serious. In the recording of his comments, which was obtained by the Daily Beast, Kerry not only repeated his past warnings that if peace wasn’t reached Israel would be faced with a new round of violence from the Palestinians as well as increased boycott efforts. He went further and said that the alternative to an Israeli acceptance of a two-state solution was that it would become “an apartheid state.”Keep reading.
In doing so, Kerry exploded the notion that he is an evenhanded broker since he is, as he has done previously, effectively rationalizing, if not justifying the next intifada as well as the continued efforts of the BDS—boycott, divest, sanction—movement against Israel. The point here is that if the maintenance of the status quo will make Israel an apartheid state, then it must already be one. Given the odious nature of such a regime, that would not only justify the boycotts but also violence on the part of the Palestinians against Israel...
But seriously. Democrat Party racism and eliminationism goes right to the top. Mindboggling.
More at the Daily Beast, "Kerry Apologizes for Apartheid Comments."
And at Twitchy, "‘If I could rewind the tape’: John Kerry clarifies ‘apartheid’ remark."
'No More Mister' Hat-Trick! Donald Douglas 'Doesn't List Sterling's Donations to Liberal Causes' OMG! LOL! BLARGH!!!
Okay, sure, I didn't actually enumerate the far-left causes to which racist liberal Donald Sterling has made contributions. But ahem, it's a bit much to blatantly deny that Sterling's an institution of L.A.'s westside liberalism, but 'No More Mister' gives it the old college try.
See, "HIGH ON THEIR OWN SUPPLY: WHY "DONALD STERLING IS A DEMOCRAT!!!1!1!1" MATTERS."
Read the whole thing, but old Steve M. doesn't like my "cranked-past-11 rhetoric," lol!
And he continues:
This is the modern right's biggest problem in microcosm.No kidding! No "left-leaning commentators"!! Oh no doubt! All the Beverly Hills liberals he's hanging out with 24/7 at all those foundation galas just can't stand Donald Sterling holla!
We had this over the weekend in a National Review post originally titled "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat":
At the American Power blog, Donald Douglas has an extended discussion of Sterling's donations to liberal causes and the left-leaning commentators who have lauded him in the past.Actually, that's not what's in Douglas's post -- that's what he says is in it, but the content doesn't match the description. Douglas quotes a deeply skeptical article about Sterling from the L.A. Times, an opinion piece by Earl Ofari Hutchinson urging the NAACP not to give Sterling an award, and a Sports Illustrated story that finds Sterling throwing lavish parties and stiffing a charity. There are no "left-leaning commentators who have lauded him in the past." And Douglas's post doesn't list Sterling's donations to liberal causes, apart from the references to the NAACP...
And no "liberal" causes?
Oh, hey Steve M, you mean "no liberal causes" like the ballot initiatives sponsored by the far-left Humane Society of the United States? You know, like California's Prop. 2, which passed at the ballot box in 2008? Would that be "liberal" enough?
LOL!
Don't change 'No More Mister'!! Don't change. You da best bro, lulz!!
See, "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!."
PREVIOUSLY: "Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!," and "Bwahaha! 'No More Mister' Pulls Post Attacking 'Donald Douglas' for 'Curiously Incomplete Search Results' — LOL!"
Monday, April 28, 2014
Shout Out to Bad Blue on Awesome Banner Headline Aggregation Holla!
Here's tonight's entry, "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!"
And here's Saturday's banner, which was up almost the entire day, from about 2:00pm 'till 10:00pm or so.
Holla to Doug Ross at Director Blue for the great blog aggregator Bad Blue!
#NBA Expected to Fine and Suspend Racist Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling
It's like Charles Barkley said: It's a "black league."
What can I say? Couldn't happen to a more classic West Los Angeles liberal.
At LAT, "Table set for NBA action on Sterling as sponsors flee":
A stream of sponsors cut ties with the Los Angeles Clippers, and Mayor Eric Garcetti called for the harshest possible punishment Monday as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver prepared to announce the results of his investigation into remarks about blacks attributed to team owner Donald Sterling.Continue reading.
Sterling's purported comments were widely condemned, and the commissioner, after three months as leader of the 30-team league, confronts one of the most unsettling crises the NBA has faced in recent years.
Although NBA bylaws give the pro basketball league the power to oust owners in limited circumstances, experts said Silver would more likely hit the Clippers' owner with a sizable fine and a lengthy suspension, perhaps with the intent of pressuring the real estate magnate into selling the franchise he has owned for 33 years.
"He'll tell Sterling, 'If you choose to stay, I won't let you go to any games,' " predicted Andrew Zimbalist, a Smith College economics professor and a former consultant to the NBA players association. "'I won't let you make any personnel decisions. I won't let you communicate with the general manager, hire anybody in the front office, or talk to the media. You could do that, or sell the team … and walk away with a $700-million capital gain.' "
Sterling paid $12 million in 1981 for the team in San Diego and three years later moved the Clippers to Los Angeles. Years of losing would ensue, but the team's fortunes and value have risen precipitously in the last few years. Forbes magazine recently valued the team at $575 million, though some in the sports world think the franchise could sell for as much as $700 million.
The websites TMZ and Deadspin posted audio recordings over the weekend of a man they identified as Sterling chastising a female friend for making public her association with blacks. The conversation took place after the woman, V. Stiviano, posted an Instagram photo of herself posing with Lakers great Magic Johnson.
On Monday, 15 Clippers advertisers said they have terminated or suspended their sponsorship, although most expressed their continued support for the team's players, coaches and fans...
Previously Donald Sterling liberal racism blogging here.
Daily Beast Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi: 'I really don't care about this debate very much..." — #DonaldSterling
Leftists don't really seem to "care about this" anymore when the facts show that racist Donald Sterling contributes exclusively to Democrats and far-left ballot measures.
@AmPowerBlog I really don't care about this debate very much. Please direct tweets elsewhere.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 29, 2014
PREVIOUSLY: "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!"
Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!
Desperate, depraved and deluded leftists have "proved" that racist Democrat Donald Sterling's actually a "registered Republican."
And how do we know? Well, for one thing idiot leftists have been swarming my Twitter feed today, attempting to flay me with OMG! RACIST!! REPUBLICAN!!! taunting neener-neener tweets for hours.
Here's the big "gotcha" post from some brainless leftist at Mother Jones, "Donald Sterling Is a Registered Republican." If you follow the links, you can go to the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters and plug in Sterling's information --- and up pops search results that claim the Clippers owner is a "registered Republican"!!
Who knows what party he's registered with, really? Maybe he registered Republican when he was depressed a few years and never punched a single ticket for a GOP candidate? He's had loads of legal and marital problems. He's been sued for his Democrat "plantation style" racism before. And only changed his registration to Republican in 2008? Maybe the far-left Democrat primaries that year --- with all the attendant collectivist, confiscatory socialist proposals --- freaked him out like he was going to lose his assets.
Whatever. That fact is, as I've been saying for days now, Sterling's a dyed-in-the-wool far-left Beverly Hills liberal of the first order. All --- and I mean all --- of his political campaign finance contributions have been to Democrat candidates, and not just "25 years ago" like the loser leftists are screaming until the cows come home.
Indeed, Jaime Fuller at the Washington Post, has a beautiful rundown of Sterling's political giving to far-left Democrats and liberal environmental causes:
Although Sterling is a registered Republican he has supported Democratic candidates in the past. He gave $5,000 to Gray Davis' gubernatorial campaign in 2002, and $1,000 in support of a group pushing for Proposition 2 in 2008, which sought to give farm animals larger living quarters. He gave another $1,000 to Davis in 1991, a year when he also gave $1,000 to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. In 1989, he gave $2,000 to former basketball player and Democratic senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley. If Republicans wanted to go really deep, they could also mention that Sterling attended the wedding of Jeff Greene in 2007, who ran in the 2010 Democratic Senate primaries in Florida -- to disastrous result.Typically, WaPo's Fuller draws unsubstantiated conclusions when she closes by arguing, "What does all of this say about Sterling's political affiliation?"
In 2009, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP gave Sterling a Lifetime Achievement Award, and he won the NAACP Presidents Award in 2008. His 2009 award coincided with Baylor's lawsuit. The NAACP chapter's president told the Los Angeles Times, "We can't speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community." He was scheduled to receive another Lifetime Achievement Award this week, but the chapter changed its mind.
Actually, we can say a lot about Sterling's "political affiliation" from the information she's provided. I mean, seriously. Sterling gave "$1,000 in support of a group pushing for Proposition 2 in 2008"?
Right. Well, according to Ballotpedia, "Proposition 2, or the Standards for Confining Farm Animals, was on the November 4, 2008 ballot in California as an initiated state statute, where it was approved."
Oh, Prop. 2 was on the ballot in November 2008, six months after Sterling supposedly registered for the "Republican" primary? Again, Sterling was probably depressed and registered in the GOP primary without a second thought. But when it comes to making political donations, well money talks, as they say. And what "group" did Sterling support with that $1000 contribution? Fuller doesn't say, but Ballotpedia lists Proposition 2's major sponsors, which lists like a who's who of far-left interest group organizations:
The YES! on Prop 2 campaign was run by Californians for Humane Farms, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary, and other animal protection groups, family farmers, veterinarians and public health professionals.OMG! totally Republican or something!!
Joe Ramsey was the official sponsor of the initiative. In addition to humane societies and animal welfare groups, the measure was also backed by the California Veterinary Medical Association, the Center for Food Safety, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Consumer Federation of America, Clean Water Action, the Sierra Club, the United Farm Workers, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. Proposition 2 was also endorsed by several politicians, including the California Democratic Party and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Jennifer Fearing was the campaign manager for the "Yes on Prop 2" campaign...
Radical leftist Jennifer Fearing is the California Senior State Director for the Humane Society of the United States. And here's the list of Prop. 2's far-left supporters, including the California Democrat Party.
But TOTALLY MAN! Donald Sterling is really a "registered Republican" OMG!! BLARGH! RACIST!!!
LMFAO: Racist Clippers Owner Is Far, Far Left #Dem About to Be Given NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award http://t.co/cUUgsxBhvx via @PatDollard
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
.@Stinarichard OMG! It's Westside L.A. LOL! It's veritable liberal land ROTFLMFAO. But don't change. Reality is hard, lol!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
The truth is that the racist Clippers owner is a classic, typically far-left liberal from L.A.'s typically progressive westside.
Desperate leftists can take that to the bank the idiot losers.
In Search of Vladimir Putin's Secret Fortune — #Russia
At NYT's front-page yesterday, "Sanctions Revive Search for Secret Putin Fortune":
WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration imposed sanctions on individual Russians last month in response to Moscow’s armed intervention in Ukraine, one of the targets was a longtime part-owner of a commodities trading company called the Gunvor Group.Well, let's hope Treasury locates Putin's riches. The White House needs something --- anything! --- on which to claim some foreign policy successes.
His name, Gennady N. Timchenko, meant little to most Americans, but buried in the Treasury Department announcement were a dozen words that President Obama and his team knew would not escape the attention of Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin. “Putin,” the statement said, “has investments in Gunvor and may have access to Gunvor funds.”
For years, the suspicion that Mr. Putin has a secret fortune has intrigued scholars, industry analysts, opposition figures, journalists and intelligence agencies but defied their efforts to uncover it. Numbers are thrown around suggesting that Mr. Putin may control $40 billion or even $70 billion, in theory making him the richest head of state in world history.
Government troops outside Slovyansk on Saturday. The army is weak, but Ukraine has a history of partisans’ attacking invaders.News Analysis: For Russia, Negatives Seem to Outweigh Positives of an InvasionAPRIL 26, 2014
For all the rumors and speculation, though, there has been little if any hard evidence, and Gunvor has adamantly denied any financial ties to Mr. Putin and repeated that denial on Friday.
But Mr. Obama’s response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has reinvigorated a 15-year global hunt for Mr. Putin’s hidden wealth.
Now, as the Obama administration prepares to announce another round of sanctions as early as Monday targeting Russians it considers part of Mr. Putin’s financial circle, it is sending a not-very-subtle message that it thinks it knows where the Russian leader has his money, and that he could ultimately be targeted directly or indirectly.
“It’s something that could be done that would send a very clear signal of taking the gloves off and not just dance around it,” said Juan C. Zarate, a White House counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush who helped pioneer the government’s modern financial campaign techniques to choke off terrorist money....
#Democrat Crony Paul Begala Warns Conservatives on Donald Sterling, Gets Schooled — #LOL
At Twitchy, "‘Check your donor lists’: Paul Begala advises conservatives not to defend Donald Sterling; Instapundit leads schooling."
Friendly tip to @seanhannity, @SenRandPaul, @SenTedCruz: don't endorse or defend Donald Sterling. DO NOT do it. http://t.co/fVHKNZVYg2
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) April 26, 2014
@PaulBegala <~~ obviously doesn't know that Donald Sterling's a Lib! @seanhannity @SenRandPaul @SenTedCruz @instapundit #ignoranceisbliss
— ConservativeBlackMan (@Thomasismyuncle) April 27, 2014
@PaulBegala Check your donor lists, idiot. He's on them. @seanhannity @SenRandPaul @SenTedCruz
— Will Collier (@willcollier) April 27, 2014
@instapundit @seanhannity @SenRandPaul @SenTedCruz I don't care if he's a Dem or Repub, I've denounced him. Where were you on Bundy?
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) April 27, 2014
Heh, guess who didn't the memo? ... "Professor Scott Lemieux, College of Saint Rose, Claims #Democrat Donald Sterling Will Be Next 'Conservative Martyr'."
And that bogus Bundy line is so lame. I guess Begala's reading No More Mister, lol!
Via NewsBusters, "Begala's Blunder: Warns Republicans Not to Defend Democrat and NAACP Benefactor Donald Sterling."
Benjamin Netanyahu Holocaust Remembrance Day Message
On this day, on behalf of the Jewish people, I say to those who have sought and still seek to destroy us: You have failed and you will fail.
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) April 27, 2014
Benjamin Netanyahu: Abbas 'cannot speak out of both sides of his mouth...'
And here's the story at NYT, "Mahmoud Abbas Shifts on Holocaust."
Also at Astute Bloggers, "NOBODY SHOULD BE FOOLED BY MAHMOUD ABBAS'S CONDEMNATION OF THE HOLOCAUST."
And at BCF, "Netanyahu dismisses Abbas Shoah comments, cites alliance with Hamas which ‘attempts to create an additional Holocaust’."
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Professor Scott Lemieux, College of Saint Rose, Claims #Democrat Donald Sterling Will Be Next 'Conservative Martyr'
You know, I don't have a problem with professors adding their own opinions on the issues they teach, but when your ideology completely blinds you to the clear, objective facts out there, then you've got a credibility problem in your profession.
I'm not block-quoting from the post (it's brief), so just go read it at Lesbians, Gays, and Marxists, "Donald Sterling: Same As He Ever Was." Lemieux claims that Sterling's "likely to become the next conservative martyr..."
I know: WTF?
Leftists have been in fits trying to deflect the fact that Sterling's a dyed-in-the-wool Beverly Hills liberal. My post on Saturday pretty much went viral, even getting picked up at National Review, "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat."
Now, as much as I've been hammering the precious idiot Steve M. at No More Mister, at least he's attempted to rebut the facts surrounding Sterling's disgusting Democrat Party racism, although I've still been having a ball, lol. See, "Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!"
Typically, though, Lemieux just buries his face in the muck, happy to be stroked by the racist commenters inhabiting the swamp at LGM. I'd say my commenter, Tabitha Bliss, pretty much nails it:
I'm having a good time watching the left twist itself into knots trying their darndest to make this guy out to be some kind of right wing, TEA Party conservative! Even Obama is trying to frame the story that way!Very well said.
Of course conservatives aren't surprised to hear liberals spew such vileness in the least. We've heard it all before. I think what still does shock us is the total hypocrisy of the leftist movement in general.
I mean these people are still having a total melt-down over Bundy's (poorly stated) comments, but let's put things in perspective here. Compare & contrast the statements made by the two men & what is & what is not real bigotry & hatred becomes obvious!
Bundy's no hero at this point, but certainly his comments amounted to at most an inarticulate effort to make the case on longstanding government and Democrat indifference to the plight of black Americans. And it's widely understood that the black family as an institution is worse off today than at any time since the Civil War. Indeed, leftists are all about context, although in Bundy's case his very compassionate statements on Hispanic families have been completely swept under the rug. So yeah, despicable leftist hypocrisy all around.
This is why I push back hard against the lying leftists losers. Fortunately, I've been able to get a little traction of late, but the battle is never over. Keep smacking down leftist liars at every turn. They never stop. They're ruthless and will do anything to destroy people of decency who are thought to stand in their way.
You know, I'm just tickled all over how leftists back themselves into a corner when calling out #TCOTs as racist, lol!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Because leftists just come at you all day and then when confronted with #Democrat Party racism they bare their teeth like a cornered dog.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Leftists: Sad bitter people who'll stop and nothing to ram through their hateful agenda.
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014
Tabitha Bliss is on Twitter as well. She's a good lady.Previous Donald Sterling blogging is here.
Lake Bell for Esquire
At Egotastic!, "Lake Bell Sweet Epic Hot Outtakes from Esquire."
And, while I'm a little behind on my #Rule5 blogging --- what, with all the Donald Sterling news, lol! --- do check out Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Jennifer Lawrence Spotted at the North Pole with Santa Claus: Rule 5 Linkfest," and Camp of the Saints, "Rule 5 Saturday: Sarah Willis."
Exclusive Extended Audiotape of #Democrat Donald Sterling Racist Rant
Plus, my report from yesterday, "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."
And here's TMZ's YouTube of the audiotape, 9 minutes long and subtitled. He basically spews profanities about Magic Johnson. The f-word. He's clearly going off with totally unrestrained racism. Intense.
Previous Donald Sterling blogging his here.
#Democrat Donald Sterling Celebrates Black History Month!
Oh the irony.
Free tickets for the kids, but just don't bring Magic Johnson will ya, lol!!
ICYMI, "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."
And ICYMI, "Clippers Protest #Democrat Donald Sterling by Wearing Shirts Inside-Out for Warm-Ups."
Plus my previous #Democrat Donald Sterling blogging here.
Clippers Protest #Democrat Donald Sterling by Wearing Shirts Inside-Out for Warm-Ups
And at the New York Times, "With Uproar Around Sterling, Clippers Take the Court":
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Los Angeles Clippers, finding themselves embroiled in controversy surrounding racist remarks attributed to the team’s owner, took the court for their playoff game Sunday with a statement, both fashion and political. In sartorial signs of solidarity, players wore their shirts inside out during warm-ups, and each wore black socks and black wristbands during the game.Also, at the Lede, "Reaction to the Remarks Linked to Donald Sterling."
The owner’s wife sat courtside, across from the Clippers’ bench, with her husband barred from attending while the N.B.A. investigates the matter. She wore all black.
The recordings of the remarks, apparently made by Donald Sterling, the Clippers’ owner, bounced around the globe on Sunday like viral aftershocks, rattling the league’s leadership, overshadowing its playoff games and even receiving the attention of President Obama in Malaysia.
But the epicenter was at Oracle Arena, where the Clippers played the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series. The teams are closely matched rivals, and although there were no clear signs that the crowd’s enthusiasm and voracity had anything to do with Sterling, the story line certainly provided a boost to the energy and intrigue.
The remarks struck a nerve in the N.B.A., in which the majority of players are black and the majority of owners are white. That the controversy should involve a team based in Los Angeles, a diverse city with its own history of race-relation problems but one that has long revered black athletes, only added a layer of complex context.
As the Clippers’ players quietly went through their usual pregame routine of stretching and relaxing, trying to make the unusual circumstances feel normal, their coach stepped into a warm and crowded room. Over seven minutes, he answered 13 questions about the racist comments attributed to Sterling.
“Racism, injustice of any kind, it should always be front and center, and we should never run from it,” the Clippers’ coach, Doc Rivers, said. “I think we all do a good job running from it. You should never run from it. You should confront it and try to do your best to handle it. I think we are doing our best right now in this case by trying to do that.”
In a meeting on Saturday, the team considered all its options, from ignoring the comments to boycotting the game, as some suggested.
“Our message is to play,” Rivers said. “Our message is that we’re going to let no one and nothing stop us from what we want to do. And I think that’s a good message.”
Previous Donald Sterling blogging here.
Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!
He got called out badly yesterday, had to retract his attack on me, and then got the sads after I hammered him as a pathetic leftist loser.
But oh, he couldn't let go, lol! He restored his lame attack in his updated post --- the one that doesn't have DONALD DOUGLAS!! in all caps screaming at you with authoritah! --- hoping that I'd get my widdle feelings hurt.
Update to an earlier post, and a restoration of the parts that were 100% accurate. @AmPowerBlog http://t.co/Mysildi44X
— Steve M. (@nomoremister) April 27, 2014
Man, what a sad little blog is No More Mister, catering to a sad little community of hateful, racist left-wing trolls. Steve M. desperately wants Democrat Party racism to go away. He's so desperate that he posts unhinged rants without even proofreading, pulls 'em after being called out (by his own commenters even!), and then gets all butthurt and reposts the stupid drivel in an update --- to get back at that old meanie DONALD DOUGLAS waaahhhh!!
My 12-year-old is more mature, heh.
But OMG! Republican racism OMG!
Here's his latest hilarious rant on how Cliven Bundy's "ideology" is all KKK and totally not a throwback or anything OMG! ...
[South Carolina Lieutenant Governor and Cliven Bundy clone] Glenn McConnell's thriving career is a reminder to me of why I automatically tune out any argument that contains the phrase "political correctness." I grant that there are things you simply "can't say," according to America's "official culture." But outside America's political and media centers, these "incorrect" ideas are loving cultivated, valorized, and carefully transmitted to future generations. That's why there are still Klansmen and neo-Nazis. That's why well-educated young men still think sexual penetration after the administration of Rohypnol or a few too many drinks is perfectly OK. That's why Silicon Valley and Internet comments sections are still hotbeds of virulent sexism. And so on. Cliven Bundy isn't a throwback. He's just a guy whose ideology usually flies under the radar. We just ignore the precincts where that ideology thrives.Oh, the poor precious widdle weftists. 'Cuz hatefwul conservatives are all about roofies, or something lol!!
BONUS: At the risk of shattering Steve M's tender pwogwessive sensibilities, you gotta check this out --- and love it too. Turns out my post from yesterday got picked up by Tim Cavanaugh at National Review, with the hilariously accurate headline, "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat."
Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat http://t.co/3IJK9HbkS6 with bonus shoutout to @AmPowerBlog
— Bossy & Proud of It (@lamblock) April 27, 2014
And in the comments there:
Moonbattery • 4 hours agoNails it!
All Democrats are racists. It is the foundation of the Democratic party. Keeping blacks in poverty is just an extension of when Democrats founded the KKK and opposed all civil rights acts the Republicans were trying to enact.
Don't let them keep rewriting history.
FLASHBACK: "Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., Kansas Jewish Murder Suspect, Made Democrat Congressional Bid in 2006."