Even so, the non-racist refused all the well-advised steaming cups of shut-the-fuck-up, and for some reason decided to "apologize" to CNN's Anderson Cooper. Sterling's chat with Cooper went from bad to worse and quickly revealed the NBA-owner to be a colossal shithead. It ranks with Katy Couric's interview of Sarah Palin in terms of a public figure's pathetic, stupid self-destruction.
The billionaire real estate mogul played the "persecuted Jew" card and, incredibly, blamed Magic Johnson for all his problems: "Big Magic Johnson, what has he done? He's got the AIDS. Did he help anyone? He should be ashamed of himself." ("The" AIDS?)
"Successful Jews will help their people. African Americans -- maybe I'll get in trouble again -- they don't want to help anybody." ("Maybe"? Way too late for maybe.)
For such an avowed non-racist, Sterling's apology sounded remarkably, uh, . . . racist.
That sound you're hearing is the gigantic asshole Donald Sterling nailing shut his own coffin. He's done. Good riddance.
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It goes like this, people: We've made great strides in America in race relations, anti-discrimination efforts, and societal tolerance in general. But racism is not over because Sean Hannity says it is, or because Donald Sterling says he loves black people, or because the Roberts Court decides to gut the Voting Rights Act. Racism in this country will be over when it's over. It ain't over yet, and won't be until the Hannitys and the Sterlings and the Scalias and Aliotos go extinct. And like the dodo, they will.
And some day, future generations will wonder what the fuss was all about
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