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Sun Jun 1, 2014, 01:16 PM Jun 2014

Media Pile On: Don Sterling Yes, the Empire NO! | Philip A. Farruggio



Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

April 30, 2014

Let me preface these new thoughts by stating that what another billionaire says or does because he feels "above the rest of we serfs" is never surprising to me.

What Don Sterling, owner of the Clippers basketball team, said and implied is murmured to this writer many times by many people… always in either whispers or in secure settings. Racism is alive and well in Amerika, as it always has been since our founding.

What cracks me up is how much television and radio time is reserved for this latest "major scandal." One can understand the sports media jumping all over this incident. Yet, even they have devoted too much time in bombarding us with what this man said, past and present. Enough already!

Oh yes, the league is suspending him for life from the game, but… he will keep ownership of his team. But wait! They may push him to sell… for more than $500 million for a team he bought for less than $20 million. Poor Don Sterling.

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