said he feeds them and buys them homes. this is the first time in my memory that he s had a team relevant in the offseason postseason. consequently, his mediocrity, he lived off the lebron james and kobe bryant and magic johnson and patrick ewing throughout the league through revenue sharing. he s delusional. not only do they reflect vile ignorance he s delusional how he should make his money. they should find a way to force him to sell the team. until they do, not only should sterling feel the consequences but the 29 other owners must as well. strong words there. we ll see how feasible this turns out to be. i want to go to you to see how they it achieve all that. let s go to the naacp happening live right now. i honestly don t know. why go ahead and rescind this honor if it s still up in the
that was leon jenkins, president of the l.a. naacp, fielding a lot of questions and scrutiny about the donations that group took from this controversial figure, sterling. bill, you obviously are a columnist and see a lot of power of money in sports. do you think they should give back the contributions? probably never should have taken them. this is the whole problem. when you re dealing with people who are racist, you re taking their hush money and all of a sudden it blows up in your face. know everybody has explaining to do. why did you take the money in first place? this is going to be the second time. sean he s talked about rumors. there s no rumor. i mean he settled out of court. he would not rent to black people and mexican-americans. let s talk about that. in light of the fact this wasn t first time he showed sign of this kind of zrims discrimination do you think the league turn a blind eye to him? i think a lot of institutions
hold up. so when he approached you, when these this money started to come in what money? the contributions to the naacp, to the community, this talk of donald sterling, when does someone like mr. sterling s reputation suggest he is when does that sort of become so disrep putable we don t deal in rumors. if you ve got specific facts we re willing to listen to them. rumors about someone s character is not something we deal with. we deal with the actual character of the person as we see it and as displayed. fz there s rumors or stuff, that s not a factor just overall not only talking about the community here in l.a. but nationwide, how would you explain how detrimental.
and what we specifically looked at. we looked at all of the sport franchises in la, the dodgers, the lakers. even in the angels, the red wings and the ducks and we look at how involved are all of these organizations are in the community. mr. sterling s organization has on a consistent basis brought in numerous minorities and inner city kids to games. every game there is a section where there are young people there. he also has over the years we looked at, contributed to a lot of minority charities, including the naacp. so we looked at comparing that with all of the other l.a. franchises, his organization gave more money to the community, to the minority community than others. has anyone from your organization
from alice, the president of naacp. if the alleged allegations are true, we are disappointed in mr. sterling. recent remarks like these remind us racism is not a footnote in our past, but a reality of our present we must take head on. investigation is in progress. we urge the l.a. naacp to withdraw donald sterling on the list at the gala. they should honor his request and not attend the games. okay. there you go. so the naacp was going to give him an award. it s true. it s official. they are withdrawaling that. do what he said, don t go to the games. ben ferguson? don, look at the corruption