Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why aren’t we outraged that Sterling was secretly recorded?

[Mr. Mensch]

This isn’t a defense of Sterling (http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/), whom he hopes loses the team, just a plenty-of-blame-to-go-around scolding — and a good one, too. Read it all. He blames Sterling for old-school bigotry, the media for ignoring Sterling’s history of racist behavior until it was served up on a silver platter last weekend, and Sterling’s girlfriend for violating his privacy by recording their conversations. That last bit is an interesting analog to the reaction among some righties after Cliven Bundy said what he said about slavery and the welfare state. Just because the man holds outre views, Bundy’s defenders argued, doesn’t mean that the feds’ land-use policies are correct. Abdul-Jabbar’s making the same point about Sterling’s privacy, a small rebuke to the idea that when it comes to punishing a cardinal social sin like prejudice, the ends justify the means. Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is worried about the same thing (http://mavsblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-calls-donald-sterlings-comments-abhorrent-endorses-maximum-league-punishment.html/).“I hope whoever made this illegal tape is sent to prison,” he concludes. Is the tape illegal, though? Well, California is a two-party consent state (http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law) when it comes to wiretapping; if Sterling didn’t consent, his girlfriend could indeed do time for recording him. The curveball here is that she claims he did consent. Supposedly, she has more than 100 hours of audio (http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/27/donald-sterling-racist-audio-v-stiviano-recorded-clippers/) of him rambling about God knows what, all of which was done with his approval because, she says … he had trouble remembering things and used the tapes as memory-fresheners (http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/27/donald-sterling-racist-audio-v-stiviano-recorded-clippers/). Which raises a new legal/ethical question: Does an 80-year-old man with memory problems have the capacity to “consent” within the meaning of the wiretapping law


http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/29/kareem-abdul-jabbar-why-arent-we-also-outraged-that-donald-sterling-was-secretly-recorded/


He makes a valid point.

[Cigar]

I'd check with the Ex-Wife .... oops .... :laugh:

[sachem]

I'd be outraged if the government secretly taped him. Since the recording was done in the context of a personal lawsuit and domestic issues, it is up to him to take action against the girlfriend.

[Matty]

Fox News says Sterling is an attorney, so look for it.

[Ishmael Pequod]

This is gonna be fun now.

[Peter1469]

The guys seems to think it is great for his girl friend to have sex with lots of players, so it isn't really strange that he would also allow the tape.

[Mr. Mensch]

The guys seems to think it is great for his girl friend to have sex with lots of players, so it isn't really strange that he would also allow the tape.


It seemed odd to me that he was Ok with her having sex with black guys just not having taking pictures with them or bringing them to games? Of course he is 80 years old and his mind might be going.

[Peter1469]

It seemed odd to me that he was Ok with her having sex with black guys just not having taking pictures with them or bringing them to games? Of course he is 80 years old and his mind might be going.

That is what I was thinking. Or he could be a lot more freaky than seems....

[Mr. Mensch]

That is what I was thinking. Or he could be a lot more freaky than seems....

Maybe he liked to watch?

It is obvious that this guy has some real issues with non-whites, but apparently he has been making these sort of comments for many years. Why did the media and his critics wait until now to make an issue of it? It isn't like he suddenly turned racist overnight.

[sachem]

It seemed odd to me that he was Ok with her having sex with black guys just not having taking pictures with them or bringing them to games? Of course he is 80 years old and his mind might be going.Public and private.

[Mr. Mensch]

Public and private.

You would think that if he was that big of a racist, he wouldn't want his wife or girlfriend to be having sex with the people he would appear to dislike.

[Peter1469]

Public and private.

That is what this seems to be about- the guy was asking his g/f to keep her cheating private.

Like the French.

[sachem]

That is what this seems to be about- the guy was asking his g/f to keep her cheating private.

Like the French.He doesn't want the white guys to see him cuckolded by some black guys. The kind of black guys that work for him.

Screw the French.

[Peter1469]

Germanicus used that word before. I should look it up.


He doesn't want the white guys to see him cuckolded by some black guys. The kind of black guys that work for him.

Screw the French.

[Mr. Mensch]

Germanicus used that word before. I should look it up.

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