{"id":54726,"date":"2014-05-13T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54726"},"modified":"2014-05-13T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:23:39","slug":"donald-sterling-unpopular-truth-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=54726","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sterling – Unpopular Truth Teller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some quotes from Donald Sterling’s interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* \u201cWhat has he done? Can you tell me? Big Magic Johnson, what has he done? He\u2019s got AIDS,\u201d Sterling told CNN. \u201cDid he do any business? Did he help anybody in South LA?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,\u201d he said. \u201cIs that someone we want to respect and tell our kids about? I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. And what does he do for black people? He hasn\u2019t done anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s a man I don\u2019t know if I should say this, he acts so holy. He made love with every girl in every city in America, and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him. I hoped he could live and be well. I didn\u2019t criticize him. I could have. Is he an example for children? You know, because he has money, he\u2019s able to treat himself.” …<\/p>\n

* As Sterling and Cooper\u2019s discussion continued, the Clippers owner tried to draw a distinction between the Jewish community and the African-African community in how each community supports its own members.<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Jewish people have a company and it\u2019s for people who want to borrow money for no interest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yes, Jews have free loan societies. Jews are more charitable with one another and more organized in their group interest than any other group and blacks, whites, browns and yellows can learn from them in this respect. <\/p>\n

* \u201cWe want to give them a fishing pole. We want to help people. if they don\u2019t have money, we\u2019ll loan it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

* \u201cI never thought a private conversation would go anywhere out to the public. \u2026 I didn\u2019t want her to bring anybody to my game because I was jealous. I mean, I\u2019m being honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s a normal reaction. <\/p>\n

* \u201cI don\u2019t know why the girl had me say those things,\u201d he said. \u201cYes, I was baited. That\u2019s not the way I talk. \u2026 When I listen to that tape I don\u2019t even know how I could say words like that. I\u2019m not a racist. I love people. \u2026 An 80-year-old man is kind of foolish, and I\u2019m kind of foolish. I thought she liked me and really cared for me. I guess being 50 years older than her, I was deluding myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some quotes from Donald Sterling’s interview: * \u201cWhat has he done? Can you tell me? Big Magic Johnson, what has he done? He\u2019s got AIDS,\u201d Sterling told CNN. \u201cDid he do any business? Did he help anybody in … Continue reading →<\/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":[29617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726","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=54726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54731,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54726\/revisions\/54731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}