[AUDIO] Donald Sterling - "Don't bring black people to my games" [AGREES TO SELL TEAM]

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'm a South Korean (living in the states now) and although I cannot even think of attempting to understand the prejudice and discrimination African Americans have to deal with historically and still today on day to day basis, I just wanted to tell you a story about POSCO (a SK gov't owned steel maker) because I believe there could be some parallels regarding reparations and ownership.

S.Korea had been attacked and colonized by the Japanese for 36 years in the early 20th century. There were massacres and cultural attacks (banning of native Korean language in text books, burning of national treasures, etc) and as you'd all know we were freed in 1945 in large parts because of the Hiroshima bombings - Korean vigilants have also fought hard against Japan, though.

Fast forward 23 years, in 1968, SK still was in dire economy (GDP of $195, poorer than Ghana) and they were in need of an independent steel maker to support their plans to be an industrialized economy. However, due to heavy upfront investment needed and SK's inexperience, the IMF and other multinational funds refused to lend credit to SK.

TJ Park, a former military officer who was in charge of the project (grandfather of my best friend as well), had gone to Japan a few years ago to demand reparations from Japan with then SK president CH Park (no relation) and got some portion of the money back from the Japanese govt (it was mostly the money Japan illegally withdrew from Korean banks, wages not paid to Korean workers, etc and didn't include compensation for damages but it was still something). So he turn to a portion of the reparation money to fund the steel mill and vowed with his co-workers that since that they're using the money his people have died for, if there's an iota of BS involved with the steel mill, they all will have to jump in the ocean in kill themselves.

With this level of determination, the first phase of POSCO was successfully completed and was profitable after just one year of operation, which is unheard of still to this day. Now it's the top 5 steel maker in the world with over $60billion in revenues. And the founder TJ Park, retired with not a single stock to his name and donated all his money, even the house he lived in, to charity. During his tenure at POSCO, he also founded a highly prestigious Tech college (MIT of Korea) and more than 10 high schools all of them with generous financial aid benefits.

I know I'm an outsider looking in, and I'm trying to be very careful because I don't want to come off wrong in any manner but I just wish, as a minority and and as part of a people who went through injustice and discrimination, that African Americans had this kind of leadership and economic ownership as well.

I respect the response, but we have come much further than that...and the slavery, endentured servitude, and lack of equal rights was much longer than, and much further reaching impact than 36 years of control.

Black american civil rights are barely 50 years old.

 

[really]

THE MAJORITY OF THIS FORUM
WORKS FOR A RACIST CAC
SO WHY ARE YALL ASKING THE CLIPS TO BOYCOTT?
ARE YOU nikkaS NOT GONNA GO TO WORK MONDAY
OR DO YOU HAVE TO HEAR YOUR EMPLOYER ON TAPE 1ST?


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THE PLAYERS UNION SHOULD HAVE COME TOGETHER AND BOYCOTTED ALL THE GAMES



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#Dualities

 

[really]

@Detroit Wave ... Anything for "daps" I guess..... #inherently

Spoiler

 

[Detroit Wave]

@Detroit Wave ... Anything for the coveted "daps" I guess.....

Spoiler

:martincmon:

 

[Cory MBA]

Clips do nothing...

 

[Captain Crunch]

Stephen A time

 

[BlackMajik]

 

[scarhead]

I respect the response, but we have come much further than that...and the slavery, endentured servitude, and lack of equal rights was much longer than, and much further reaching impact than 36 years of control.

Black american civil rights are barely 50 years old.

Absolutely. No disputes there.

 

[really]

"They are working with him to try to help him figure out a way out of this... It shouldn't be taking this long to get to the bottom of this" - Mike Greeny






I said this ummmm, 200 pages back....



Between Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Greeny, it's a damn shame the white boys going HARDER for the nikkas than the nikkas are.......... I love it, but its also a damn shame

 

[CASHAPP]

I respect your sentiments. Very reasonable.

Three things:

1. Doc has already gone on record saying he wasn't cool with the black armband/sock gesture. He distanced himself from that in a deliberate manner during a post game presser, according to quotes I've seen.

2. The underlined is huge. The boycott could have likely destroyed their livelihood in the league, and led to litigation for breach of contract. And/or it could have helped spark a seismic shift in the league with the current imbalance of power becoming more evenly distributed.

But a man has to determine what's more important to him after evaluating the context and circumstances.

People keep talking about respect the process when no one can fully articulate what the process is (not even Mayor Kevin Johnson), and then the process has proven to be less-than-amicable to players' rights. Sure, the boycott could have caused a significant change in lifestyle for some players and for others not so much. But trust, despite the possible financial repercussions, most of those guys would STILL lead much more posh lifestyles than most of us could ever dream to lead.

oh... and

3. Where are all these posters coming from?! , tho! It's as if y'all have been in the woodwork, lurking just waiting for this day!

At point #3 we have 14.5 thousand members but sometimes its hard to remember since we are used to seeing the usual suspects...stories like this always bring em out every couple of months

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

 

[Big Boss]

 

[CASHAPP]

Taking a dump right now can yalll let me know what stephen and Skip bayless are saying

 

[mson]

 

[OG Talk]

"They are working with him to try to help him figure out a way out of this... It shouldn't be taking this long to get to the bottom of this" - Mike Greeny






I said this ummmm, 200 pages back....



Between Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Greeny, it's a damn shame the white boys going HARDER for the nikkas than the nikkas are.......... I love it, but its also a damn shame

Yeah I said in another thread Mike Greenberg suprised the sh1t out of me.. He was spitting nothing but that real against his Jewish brethern.. Golic was just trying to cop pleas and for the owners though so maybe they were just doing a good cop/bad cop routine...