Sterling and Bundy: A master class on racism in the 21st century

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Maybe there’s just not a whole lot that’s funny about two creepy old white guys getting caught on tape with their racist pants down.

Unless you count the fact that one of them, apparently, was about to get a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP -- now that’s funny -- while the other is a hero to conservative wingnuts for defending the Constitution of a government he claims does not even exist.

What we really have here is a master class in how, despite what the conservative majority of the Supreme Court would like to believe, American racism is alive and well. It’s at home on the range, and, incredibly, courtside at the NBA, where three quarters of the players are black.

“We've made enormous strides,” President Obama said Sunday when he was asked about the Sterling controversy during his trip to Malaysia. “But you're going to continue to see this percolate up every so often, and I think that we just have to be clear and steady in denouncing it, and teaching our children differently.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-donald-sterling-cliven-bundy-racism-20140428,0,3837673.story