On Tuesday, ESPN host Bomani Jones delved into Donald Sterling’s racism that has, for many Americans, been a shocking revelation. But for those familiar with Sterling’s past, is more like typical behavior.
During a taping of the Miami-based Dan Le Batard Show, Jones discussed a 2006 column he wrote titled “Sterling’s racism should be news,” regarding a housing discrimination lawsuit against the LA Clippers owner after he refused to let blacks, Latinos and families with children reside in buildings he owned.
But it was Jones’ passionate speech on how detrimental Sterling’s racism has been that really took the cake. The recent recordings, Jones suggested, are granular in the grand scheme of things.
“This is the only opportunity that a lot of people have where they feel comfortable within their souls, within their psyches to stand against racism,” Jones said on the ESPN Radio program. “‘Cause it’s so easy to do it on this right here and it’s so scandalous.”
The real effects of Sterling’s racism are a lot harder to pin down.
“We hear all this stuff that goes on in Chicago and all these people who die, who lose their lives,” he said. “All that stuff that’s happening in Chicago is a byproduct of housing discrimination. … Housing discrimination is the biggest reason that we can point to historically for why we’ve got all these dead kids in Chicago fighting for turf, fighting for real estate with poor accommodations and facilities and everything that you’re supposed to have in a city, poor education, all of this because the tax dollars and everything else decided to move away.”
Jones continued:
“When we start looking at all these people in these lists who are dying as an economic byproduct of the people like Donald Sterling and you now have a problem because, oh my God, he said something that intimated that he doesn’t respect his players? I’m calling you out as a fraud.”
Speak on it! You can listen to his speech above.
SOURCE: HuffPost | VIDEO SOURCE: YouTube
