Racism

I think it's safe to say that the majority of people hate racism, however, as it is with everything, the vocal minority somehow still gets attention. Even in this day and age, somehow racism is still a major social problem. Even wit the large amount of progress in this area, there is still some who think that racism is a part of every day life.

A recent well known case of racism is Donald Sterling, the owner (soon to be former owner) of the NBA team, the Los Angeles Clippers.  Recently his mistress recorded a conversation between the two of them. During this recording, Sterling told his mistress to not take "Black" people to his team's  basketball games and not promote hanging out with them by posting it on Instagram. This is in spite of the fact that his mistress was half african-american and half mexican. 

As would be expected from such a example of racism, there was a large amount of backlash from the media and public. As his team was in the middle of a playoffs series at the time (which they would end up winning), the players didn't comment too much on the situation as they wanted to think about their upcoming games. However, this didn't stop them from staging a quiet protest during the warm up of their next game. After walking out on to the court for warm up, they took off their Clipper warm up gear and put it on the middle of the court, they then conducted warm up with a red shirt turned inside out so they wouldn't have to show the Clipper's logo.

As well as this, before the NBA commissioner revealed the punishment for Sterling, The Clippers team and their opponent the Golden State Warriors agreed that if the verdict was anything less than Sterling being banned from the NBA, the game planned for after the verdict would be boycotted. It is believed that if the ban was implemented two other games scheduled for that day were going to be boycotted too.

After his bigotry was released to the public my TMZ, Sterling was fined $2.5 million by the NBA (The maximum fine the NBA can enforce) and he will be forced to sell his share of the Clippers if three quarters of the NBA team owners agree to this. 

Let's just face it, racism is stupid. There isn't any other way to put it. if you want to see some of the stupidity which is found in this world of ours I recommend the following site, http://northwestfront.org/ .

There is no sign of intelligent life found on this site and if you are ever frustrated at someone for acting stupid just remember that at least they aren't a member of this organisation.

I'd like to leave you with a quote from the homepage of the NorthWestFront website.

"We don’t stand for hating people, we stand for freeing people, our people, from a yoke of tyranny and oppression that has become impossible for us to live with. We stand for preserving our race from biological and cultural extinction."