- Sep 12, 2009
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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Billionaire racists will be billionaire racists. Not much we can do about that. But the fact that our so-
called civil rights organizations depend on the deep pockets of Wal-Mart, Comcast, and the David
Sterlings of this world even though they pretend to represent the interests of ordinary black people is
not something we have to live with.
“Depending on the rich and powerful to pay their bills while pretending to speak for
the poor and oppressed is not a mere bug in the way our 21st century civil rights
organizations work ”
For us at Black Agenda Report, the most telling angle on the story of Donald Sterling,
the racist billionaire owner of the LA Clippers, was that the Los Angeles NAACP , which
had been about to give Sterling a second – not a first but a second “Lifetime
Achievement Award” eagerly stepped forward to offer redemption and
forgiveness for the small cost of a few more strategic donations from the deep
pockets of Donald Sterling.
Donald Sterling may imagine he owns basketball players. But he really does own the NAACP, just as
surely as Verizon and Comcast, Aetna, Wal-Mart, MSNBC and others own the National Action
Network, Rainbow-PUSH, the Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the rest
of our politically bankrupt black misleadership class.
Read more: http://www.blackagendareport.com/co...s-basketball-players-he-really-does-own-naacp
Billionaire racists will be billionaire racists. Not much we can do about that. But the fact that our so-
called civil rights organizations depend on the deep pockets of Wal-Mart, Comcast, and the David
Sterlings of this world even though they pretend to represent the interests of ordinary black people is
not something we have to live with.
“Depending on the rich and powerful to pay their bills while pretending to speak for
the poor and oppressed is not a mere bug in the way our 21st century civil rights
organizations work ”
For us at Black Agenda Report, the most telling angle on the story of Donald Sterling,
the racist billionaire owner of the LA Clippers, was that the Los Angeles NAACP , which
had been about to give Sterling a second – not a first but a second “Lifetime
Achievement Award” eagerly stepped forward to offer redemption and
forgiveness for the small cost of a few more strategic donations from the deep
pockets of Donald Sterling.
Donald Sterling may imagine he owns basketball players. But he really does own the NAACP, just as
surely as Verizon and Comcast, Aetna, Wal-Mart, MSNBC and others own the National Action
Network, Rainbow-PUSH, the Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the rest
of our politically bankrupt black misleadership class.
Read more: http://www.blackagendareport.com/co...s-basketball-players-he-really-does-own-naacp
