Mark Cuban:"I know how I'm going to vote, but I'm not ready to comment on it."

[Consigliere]

It's tough to have conversations when the average person conflates bigotry with prejudice with racism. Between our own general ignorance and the word police there's isn't much room for error to allow honest expression of our thoughts.

Cubes is right. Everyone harbors some kind of prejudice.

Unfortunately, he's putting all of his on display to defend Sterling and himself by proxy.

As the NBA's most disgruntled owner it makes sense that he'd be wary of setting a precedent of voting outspoken owners out of their ownership stake. He's also saying something that none of the other owners who've known Sterling for years w/o issue have the guts to come out and say. They'll all vote unanimously to kick him out of their club while doing and thinking and acting in private exactly like Sterling. Then we'll all pretend racism is over until the next time somebody steps on somebody's sneakers.

 

[MostReal]

you know what.

a part of me kinda want these owners to vote to keep sterling an owner.

some of these rich nba dudes and black people in general need a serious wakeup call.

who am i kidding? you know these guys are gonna keep on playing for these racist owners and use "not playing for the owner and playing for the fans/city" excuse.

its going to cut real deep though. they won't be the same...but they will still play 'for now'
We don't really respond until we are backed into a corner collectively. We aren't at that moment yet but its coming.

I'm actually surprised whenever White Supremacy does the honorable thing. Throughout history their hand was forced to do what's right by black people. This is why they look at blacks as the 'moral' people...and why they expect us to fight for everyone else's problems. We are the only people that hold a mirror up to their face...no other people dare challenge them that way.

Its crazy, on the other hand...they look at us as their kids. Your kids bring life to your house with laughter & playing. Its great being a parent then. But when they defy you...you discipline them seriously. You don't really listen to your kids either. You feel you know better...."how dare they question me after I've given them food, clothing, & shelter."
You don't look at your kids as equals...this is why they say what they do about Obama. They don't feel he has the 'parental wisdom' to run this country the right way.

these cacs are something else

 

[mrken12]

Imagine the fukkery down in Dallas

Cuban leaves practice facility

sees is being followed by large black man in hoody

runs to car and fumbles with keys

Screams just take my wallet it's all I have

Vince carter is like nikka I just wanna know when the next check comin in

Cuban is like oh, it's just you Vince

but

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

blackman in a hood...?
Bu bu NBA players dress like this because they are just being fashion forward...

 

[mrken12]

He's not saying he's afraid of black people... he's saying that he is prejudiced, and that's something people as a whole are scared to admit.... because prejudice and racist beliefs usually go hand in hand.

people seem to forget that everyone is prejudice to some extent,but this is post racial America...where nobody is prejudice and people don't see color.

Someone who has a history of sticking up for Sterling and is a closet white supremacist is basically going to the white deflection handbook for the "everyone is racist" excuse. The fact that he's ambiguous about how he's going to vote confirms how much of a scumbag he is.

 

[ltheghost]

Sounds like we need to start treating these fukks totally different now. Too much support for racists going on by Cuban....he may need some heat under his ass as well.....

 

[Midwest]

Scusts at this shyt.... Wear 100% cotton hoodies in 2014 bruhs... We just found out how an nba owner felt about a black kid getting murdered and how he feels a racist owner fate should be.... Y'all remember Kobe call Benny a fukking fakkit? The bum ass nba had those fakkit ass commercial not even a week later playing for two years trying to keep the gays at bay..... Now think about this.... Had the nba been 95% gay sterling vote would have been held and done that week.

 

[Da King]

nikkas actually surprised a billionaire cac Jew is racist?


But he's cool because he sits court side and yells

 

[mrken12]

nikkas actually surprised a billionaire cac Jew is racist?


But he's cool because he sits court side and yells

And he partied with Lil Wayne.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Cuban keeps exposing himself.

Him and the other owners wouldn't vote to remove Sterling as the owner if they could, but they know they would face so much backlash if they didn't.

That's why I don't want to hear idiots acting like they're doing some great thing when they vote him out like they did when Silver banned him.

 

[IGSaint12]

Sooo how do mavs fans feel about their owner being so forthright with his opinions on race and justice nowadays?

 

[Canon]

I thought Cuban was one of the good ones

 

[Mr.Grinch]

Sooo how do mavs fans feel about their owner being so forthright with his opinions on race and justice nowadays?

Used to respect him. Now fukk em.

 

[Consigliere]

I'm actually surprised whenever White Supremacy does the honorable thing. Throughout history their hand was forced to do what's right by black people. This is why they look at blacks as the 'moral' people...and why they expect us to fight for everyone else's problems. We are the only people that hold a mirror up to their face...no other people dare challenge them that way.

Powerful posting.

This is why the owners are going to vote unanimously to kick Sterling out even though they'll probably be behind the scenes texting him apologies. Nobody wants to be a racist. They view being called a racist as worse than actually being racist. From their perspective it's certainly worse than being discriminated against.

It also ties into why bigots favor minority hookers or have mixed race b*stard children running around like Strom Thurmond, but that's a whole other conversation about morality and hypocrisy.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Someone who has a history of sticking up for Sterling and is a closet white supremacist is basically going to the white deflection handbook for the "everyone is racist" excuse. The fact that he's ambiguous about how he's going to vote confirms how much of a scumbag he is.

by proxy, the entire NBA stuck up for Sterling for decades.... but that's neither here nor there.


His ambiguity about how he is going to vote, is in his and every owners best interest... because it's not a clear cut decision to make... owners are going to have to figure out how/where their personal beliefs and business intersect, and more importantly, cover their own asses just because nobody is safe anymore.

You vote against Sterling, and then he starts pulling skirts.... then what? you gonna let everyone get a pass? or do they all need to be forced to sale the team? Cuban is clearly aware of this potential scenario, and that nobody is safe anymore.

You side with Sterling...there will be obvious backlash, but it'll go away...cause people will still watch the games. Americans have short attention spans, and don't care about most shyt.... Look at Chic Fil A, they hate fakkits... people fake cared, and it didn't stop shyt.

It's not as black and white as the media wants to paint it.