Anyone else sick of hearing about the racist LA Clippers owner? I hate to say it but racism will never be a thing of the past, and harping on some comments a LA Clippers owner made to his girlfriend that he was pissed about is not news. People say all kinds of things that they don't mean when they are having arguments.
Get over it already, there is and always will be assholes in the world with lousy views of racism, sexism, etc.

It's people. They're stupid. Nothing can be done about that. :/

Someone blurts something out and suddenly they're evil incarnate and you must shun them until they apologize to the world. Screw you world! I do what I want when I want to. >:O

Rich people problems.

Alternatively you could get over that people do care about it.

Yes, people will always act that way, and other people will HOPEFULLY always react in the way they have. We have a big problem as a society when they don't.

I don't really know the entire story, but apparently it was something he said to his girlfriend?
If that's the case, I have to agree.
Who cares what he said when he was angry and jealous to his girlfriend in private?
In public it would've been different, but I think everybody has said things they didn't really mean when they were enraged.
That's the price of being rich and 'famous' I suppose.
But yeah the whole thing with interviewing the players and all that, slow news day.

The gold digger reacted very smartly when she was talking on the phone with that moron.

I don't care; it's annoying and incessantly covering racism is more likely to promote it giving a soap box to filth than is responsible.

It makes me wonder if we've reached some point of universal harmony that the most noteworthy news is some offensive slight from one person (last week CNN featured an equally stupid headlined about some racist rancher in Texas, duh).

Sports!

Yeah, I have trouble taking people in the sporting activities with any amount of seriousness of what flings out of their mouth. To me its a 'what did you seriously expect' sort of situation, or to put it more rudely, 'Living up to the fine stereotypes'.

What's the saying again? See no evil, hear no evil? What he said was evil, no question. The billionaires need to be held accountable for their actions. Done.

I just finished reading an article on SI about the legal implications of this case. I am a fan of the NBA and quite interested in (us-american) social and cultural matters, so here is my answer to your post:

The case is a bit more complicated than you may realize. The owner has quite the history of alleged racism: "According to the Justice Department, Sterling, his wife and three of his companies have engaged in discrimination, principally by refusing to rent to African-Americans" (Source.)
There is much more dirt on him, read , or start [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/feature/index?page=sterling-investigation]here or on any sports news site who covers this, if you are interested (which you are not, I get it. But others might be. :) )

In short, he seems to be a terrible human being and an equally terrible owner of a franchise in a popular sport, located in the second most important media market in the USA. He employs African-Americans, he makes money off of African-Americans, his girlfriend who leaked the tape is black and Mexican....so a bigot's bigot in my book.

So you have the "rich man"-angle, you have the "sports franchise-owner" angle, you have the "what happens to his ownership, the franchise and ultimately the whole league"-angle, you have the general "racism as a stain on society and sports/entertainment as a microcosm/ magnifying glass"-angle. So yes, this is, and should be news. You started a thread on this on a gaming website, and people responded, so ofc it is news. And it should be.

Furthermore, your logic is flawed. You do not seem to dispute that this man is a racist ("there is and always will be assholes in the world with lousy views of racism"). So why do you try to rationalize or trivialize it with "People say all kinds of things that they don't mean when they are having arguments."? Of course they do, but definitely not in this case.

Simply saying "I don't care, stop bothering me, you will never get rid of [enter social issue/injustice here], stop blowing this out of proportion" is not just too easy, it is just plain wrong in my book. You need to bring these matters to the attention of people, so that they are informed and are able to speak out and act against injustices. Racism, xenophobia, homophobia etc. are still major issues in our oh so civilized and progressive western society, and they need to be addressed. And if it is via sports, so be it. Just look at the recent coming-outs of (team sports) athletes and what that did for the public debate (as far as I am able to tell from afar.) But sadly I am afraid you may have been offended by the coverage about gay athletes as well.

TL;DR: I care, so much that I spent way too much time and energy writing this, not being a native speaker and all. :p

Holding the obscenely rich accountable for being racist is the first step in holding them accountable in general. I wonder what percentage of people like that sports guy (wealthwise) believe themselves to be some kind of higher beings.

It's a fairly meek start, but it's something.

Absolutely!

I don't know the guy but have read some of the articles linked from this thread. Give him all the rope he needs to justify his comments......in a court of law.....televised. Suppression is not the answer and apathy is perhaps the greatest danger of all.

On the subject of racism anyone seen the Barcelona full backs reaction to having a banana thrown at him at a football match? Here The genius of that little act of defiance has led to twitter and instagram support from professional players and fans alike against racism.

personally i'd say someone who say something under pressure is more truer as his/her self than what we can look at everyday. not everyone off course but my experience say it is the majority