As if the TMZ audio of L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling wasn’t incriminating enough, along comes a new, more devastating tape that exposes his deep-seeded bigotry. In the extended tape acquired by Deadspin it paints an even more racist viewpoint expressed by Sterling. The 15-minute version of the tape between Sterling and his girlfriend V. Stiviano talks about Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp, blacks being compared to dogs and the Holocaust.
V: I don’t understand, I don’t see your views. I wasn’t raised the way you were raised.
DS: Well then, if you don’t feel—don’t come to my games. Don’t bring black people, and don’t come.
V: Do you know that you have a whole team that’s black, that plays for you?
DS: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have—Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?
V: Honey, if it makes you happy, I will remove all of the black people from my Instagram.
DS: You said that before, you said, “I understand.”
V: I DID remove the people that were independently on my Instagram that are black.
DS: Then why did you start saying that you didn’t? You just said that you didn’t remove them. You didn’t remove every—
V: I didn’t remove Matt Kemp and Magic Johnson, but I thought—
DS: Why?
V: I thought Matt Kemp is mixed, and he was OK, just like me.
DS: OK.
V: He’s lighter and whiter than me.
DS: OK.
V: I met his mother.
DS: You think I’m a racist, and wouldn’t—
V: I don’t think you’re a racist.
DS: Yes you do. Yes you do.
V: I think you, you—
DS: Evil heart.
DS: It’s the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.
V: So do you have to treat them like that too?
DS: The white Jews, there’s white Jews and black Jews, do you understand?
V: And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?
DS: A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent.
V: And is that right?
DS: It isn’t a question—we don’t evaluate what’s right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture.
V: But shouldn’t we take a stand for what’s wrong? And be the change and the difference?
DS: I don’t want to change the culture, because I can’t. It’s too big and too [unknown].
V: But you can change yourself.
DS: I don’t want to change. If my girl can’t do what I want, I don’t want the girl. I’ll find a girl that will do what I want! Believe me. I thought you were that girl—because I tried to do what you want. But you’re not that girl.
V: It’s like saying, “Let’s just persecute and kill all of the Jews.”
DS: Oh, it’s the same thing, right?
V: Isn’t it wrong? Wasn’t it wrong then? With the Holocaust? And you’re Jewish, you understand discrimination.
DS: You’re a mental case, you’re really a mental case. The Holocaust, we’re comparing with—
V: Racism! Discrimination.
DS: There’s no racism here. If you don’t want to be… walking… into a basketball game with a certain… person, is that racism?
This new, revolting comments will only increase the pressure for the NBA to discipline or oust Sterling. The completely derogatory words have reached the NAACP, which was set to honor the embroiled NBA owner with his second Lifetime Achievement Award next month, and they have chose to rescind their tribute.
#DonaldSterling will not be receiving a lifetime achievement award from the LA Branch of the NAACP. #MTP
— NAACP (@NAACP) April 27, 2014
However this award is the least of Sterling’s worries since he has rightfully been verbally attacked by by sports stars, celebrities and even the President. This will put a great deal of pressure on newly appointed NBA commissioner Adam Silver who doesn’t want the remote possibility of having the Clippers win everything and then have to present the Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy to Donald Sterling in front of the world.
[Deadspin]
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