Donald Sterling Is Problematic in So Many Ways

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NPR’s Code Switch blog has a good write-up of Donald Sterling’s obviously racist and rather delusional statements – and his history of racist bigotry:

It’s not even the ugliest racial controversy he’s been at the center of. If you took all of Donald Sterling’s racial scandals together, you might have a hard time distinguishing him from a villain in a blaxploitation movie. (Critics would complain that the character was too broadly drawn.)

The article doesn’t even include his bizarre, bragging deposition in a case in which he was accused of sexual harassment. The deposition is so inappropriate it’s (almost) funny but adds to the misogyny that is also noticeable in his fight with his mistress of color. The Daily Beast has more.


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