Kurupt Thinks Donald Sterling Is A “Great Guy”
by Staff Editor
After Donald Sterling’s unsavory comments were made public information the general population pushed for his removal as an NBA owner. The racist remarks were simply not to be tolerated in the NBA by the players, fans and other associating members. It is easy to assume that the majority agreed with the decision to strip Donald Sterling of all ownership rights.
Then there is, of course, the minority. In a bizarre interview with VLADTV, west coast rhymer Kurupt disagrees with the NBA’s decision. “I don’t agree at all,” he said. “They took a good man down. So what he said…they took a good man down, he didn’t nothing to nobody my nigga.”
Apparently the loss of his ownership rights won’t change him so the punishment at hand is seemingly unjust, according to Kurupt. “If you don’t like the guy because he’s racist, don’t work for him. Fuck you think you’re gonna do? Change him?”
Watch the interview above.
Great article. Thanks for bringing the other side of this up, especially through comments from a black person, which obviously weighs more heavily (and should), and it’s the same thing I’ve been trying to say: the guy’s a jerk, but there’s no rule or law against being a racist jerk; if the entirety of the players refused to play for him, he’d be forced to be kicked out by the other owners simply because of how badly he’s hurting the business, which is a valid reason to out him, not because he’s a racist douchebag. Being able to be a racist douchebag publicly is one of the many wonderful joys our First Amendment gives us.
You don’t think being racist hurts business? Minorities have money too. Maybe they start going to Lakers games. Also, the NBA is a private organization. They can do what they want internally the same way the KKK can. Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean you won’t have to pay for your words. It just means you can say them without going to jail. Federal law and the laws of a private institution aren’t always gonna be the same.
I didn’t say it doesn’t hurt business, but let that hurt business speak for itself, don’t jump the gun early.
It’s the same way I feel about drug testing in the workplace. You don’t fire somebody because they have some weed in their piss (unless it’s like air-traffic control, etc…), you fire them because they’re doing a bad job/acting weird/etc… Same with Sterling… if there was a noticeable decline in the NBA following the releases of Sterling’s shittiness that somebody could point to and correlate and say “here is when Donald said X, and as you see on the graph the dips in total NBA sales, and even more for Clippers gear, has been decreasing at a rate of Y%.” Otherwise… this really is supposed to be a free country, for everybody, racist asshole or bleeding heart liberal.
Not within a private organization though, I agree with you outside of that though. Within a private organization, what happened to him was completely valid. Free speech doesn’t mean it doesn’t cost anything. People are also free to react to it how they see fit. It just so happens they decided to exercise their rights as a private organization by shit-canning him.