| | | won't give him a SECOND life time award so they already gave him one, no republican would even get one award from this racist group
The interim president of the NAACP said Sunday morning that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will no longer receive a second lifetime achievement award that its Los Angeles chapter was going to give him next month.
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Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty ImagesThe NAACP will no longer be presenting a lifetime achievement award to Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Lorraine Miller made the announcement as a guest on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning.
"If you're silent about this, then you are accepting this," Miller told the show's host, David Gregory. "And people have got to say that this is not good and do something about it."
This would have been the second time in six years that the Los Angeles chapter would have been given Sterling its lifetime achievement award.
The NBA is investigating an audio recording purportedly of Sterling making racist remarks to his girlfriend.
In 2009, while being accused of racism in a lawsuit brought by former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor, the chapter also gave Sterling the award.
"For the most part, [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community," the chapter's president Leon Jenkins explained to the Los Angeles Times at the time.
Calls placed to Jenkins, who still serves as president, were not returned.
A digital invitation of the May 15 gala celebrating the 100th anniversary of the chapter, and Sterling as one of the top honorees, was still on the organization's website as of Sunday |
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