{"id":54321,"date":"2014-05-05T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54321"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T22:18:05","slug":"black-nba-owner-held-blacks-only-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54321","title":{"rendered":"Black NBA Owner Held Blacks-Only Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what should be the repercussions? Are there different rules for blacks and whites? Is it OK for blacks to be racist and to hold blacks-only parties?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.debbieschlussel.com\/71171\/black-nba-owner-held-black-only-party-whites-turned-away-nba-did-nothing\/\">Debbie Schlussel writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of this week\u2019s NBA proposed lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine for Donald Sterling, a longtime reader reminded me that I\u2019d written about another NBA owner, a Black man, who held a party in which Whites were refused entry and turned away. And, yet, the NBA did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve already pointed out, Black racism and bigotry against Whites, Jews, Mormons, and gays is tolerated by the NBA. But a private racist conversation by a White owner is not. And here is an instance of a Black then-NBA owner whose public, deliberate racism was tolerated and ignored. Jay-Z a\/k\/a Shawn Carter was an owner of the Brooklyn Nets, an NBA Team, from 2003 through mid-April 2013. But, as I noted on this site, in February 2010, Jay-Z held a lavish party at the Merah club in central London, and banned White people from attending. The party, for music industry executives, reporters, and other Jay-Z ass-kissers was for Blacks only. Bouncers were instructed to refuse entry to Whites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what should be the repercussions? Are there different rules for blacks and whites? Is it OK for blacks to be racist and to hold blacks-only parties? Debbie Schlussel writes: In the wake of this week\u2019s NBA proposed lifetime ban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-donald-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54340,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54321\/revisions\/54340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}