Sterling Sees Black NBA Players as Strong Bucks on His Very Own Plantation

Donald Sterling and Girlfriend

Donald Sterling's racist tirade stumped me. If he didn't want his half-black/half-Hispanic girlfriend associating with black men, then why did he own the Los Angeles Clippers, thus surrounding himself with black NBA players?   I didn't stay stumped for long for alas, I have seen this behavior before or at least read about it in the history books.

Sterling is merely trying to make up for the fact that he was born two hundred or so years too late. In buying an NBA team, what he really had his heart set on was recreating the power dynamics of a Mississippi plantation owner in the heart of LA, the kind of milieu stocked full of strong black bucks.  To feel in control of all that deep, dark masculinity apparently gives that man an adrenaline high.   And Donald Sterling gives me the creeps.

As for the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP,  the very fact that it  planned to give this man, who has a long history of discriminating against blacks, an award suggests that its Executive Committee needs to re-think its mission.  I'm sure Sterling has donated money to the organization and handed out free game tickets to inner city youth.  But as altruistic as the latter may sound, I'm all for banning free tickets to professional sporting events for poor kids.  Such gestures are anything but healthy.  The academic achievement of too many black kids is already stunted by the false dream of making it in professional sports rather than having to succeed in school.