In the US, Obama’s election victories have not cleared the way for a “post-racial” society. The latest example: Donald Sterling, owner of the US basketball team the Los Angeles Clippers, rushed against blacks. The player of his club responded impressively.

It was a silent protest. As the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday warmed up to their fourth game of the NBA playoffs against the Golden State Warriors from San Francisco, they took their red T-shirts demonstratively left. While the game itself then the basketball players wore black socks and bracelets.

The Clippers lost 97:118. But this time it was a minor matter. Because no escape at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, that on the edge of the Courts of missing: Donald Sterling, the owner of the Clippers – and the man against whom his own players protested.
Mr. Sterling asked to be excused. Why that needed no explanation.

The California real estate billionaire is the focus of recent racism scandal in the USA. On several audio recordings that were the Gossip site “TMZ” and the sports blog “Deadspin” leaked, he want to hear how he demeans blacks – even though his own, long time is rather hapless basketball team indeed almost entirely of African Americans .

Racism Scandal NBA:”You know that you have a whole team that is black?”

The recordings contain two conflicting voices : one male – allegedly Sterling – and a female – reportedly his ex- mistress V. Stiviano , turn black and Mexican origin . The trigger was apparently an Instagram photo Stivianos with the – black – basketball idol Magic Johnson.

” It bothers me very much that you like blurting out that he kicks you with blacks ,” complains the man . ” Must it be ? ” You could blacks ” private love” , just not in public. Also, they should ” bring no blacks ” to its games in the future.

” Do you know that you have a whole team that is black ? ” Replies the woman.

” I help them ,” replies the man and behaves like a great patron of his players who earn millions of salaries : “I give them food and clothes and cars and houses Who gives them the Gives them someone else’s . ? ”

The authenticity of the recordings, which U.S. President Barack Obama ” incredibly racist and offensive ” condemned as is now widely acknowledged: Both the excerpts launched as the entire one-hour tape were ” legitimate ,” said attorney Stivianos Mac Nehoray – the voices belonged to Sterling and his client .

Racism Scandal NBA:America’s diehards oppose the louder

An isolated case ? Not at all : The scandal over Sterling fits seamlessly into a whole series of similar failures in recent months .

From the TV celebrity chef Paula Deen, who was delighted to avail of ” a bunch of little nigger ” to Nevada ranchers and Tea Party hero Cliven Bundy , who just makes headlines because he finds that blacks are better than slaves would have been : In the U.S., the everyday racism drives today crass – curious flowers.

Obama’s election victories have not ushered in a “post- racial” American society , as some hoped . The contrary, it seems as if America’s diehards opposed the louder .

This reveals itself not only in crude words, but in the many racist interwoven debates that the U.S. has moved in recent times – in politics , society , economy, and , ironically , now also in basketball.

Before Sterling scandal Bundy kept derailing the Americans spell. The actually began as something completely different . The 67 -year-old cowboy recognizes the U.S. government out of principle not to . But who owns the land on which he can graze his 500 cows. Since 1993, Bundy therefore refuses to pay the fees for it – and now owes the state more than a million dollars.

Racism Scandal NBA:Farmer distraught with his knowledge “about the negroes”

Mid-April, sent the relevant Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents in the semi-desert of Nevada to confiscate Bundy cattle. The compulsion buoyancy ended, however, when Bundy confronted the government officials armed – cheered on by up to 1,500 Militia and Tea Party ilk.

The fronts pulled up by the U.S. Congress: There praised Republican Sen. Rand Paul Bundy as a folk hero, while Paul’s Democratic Senate rival Harry Reid called him a “domestic terrorist.”

But then did manifest Bundy, what he calls “about the negroes white ‘.” They drive from their young children, they put their young men to jail because they have never learned to pick cotton “And: “I’ve often wondered if they have it better than slaves.”

The previously jubilant Republicans could not sell fast enough from him suddenly.

Similarly, it is now Sterling. Active and former basketball stars dissociate themselves, one after the other: Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley. The NBA checks consequences.

It is not the first time that such Sterling strikes. His racism is documented long. The Clippers waived because this time on a boycott and contented themselves with the silent protest. What’s a bit of racism against the noise in the NBA playoffs?

On May 15, Donald Sterling to get a way “Award for Lifetime Achievement” award – from the U.S. black NAACP.

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