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To: Metacomet who wrote (249797)	4/28/2014 11:02:07 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (3) of 543225

If I had to guess what you were in a previous life it would be leader of western vigilante group. All I've said is WAIT for the facts to come out. I haven't defended the statements, but the PROCESS by which is decision is going to reached here. The distinction is probably too subtle for you to detect, but it is important one. It's the difference between a lynch mob mentality and one that demands that evidence subject to scrutiny be the basis for decisions which will inflict harm on someone. And that ultimately will be what will happen here--at least I hope it will. The NBA owners will look at the evidence and come to some kind of decision based on what their bylaws say. Is that fair enough for you? Will you now unsling the rope now that is over the tree branch and wait for that process to take place? I know it's tough for you, but give it a try. You will have to give up some preconceptions that structure your belief system in order to do this. One is that NBA players are on some kind of plantation here. Man I would love to be on that kind of plantation. Two, that this controversy has something to do with the argument I made (supported by PHD) research that slavery would have disappeared anyway within 15-30 years of 1865 had the civil war not been fought. Only you would try to take into an academically researched argument like that and try and make it into some kind of steadfast opinion I must hold about the role of current racial relations. Well I can't stop you from wildly speculating--just point it out when I see it. There is two things important here going forward IMHO. One of course is the authenticity of the evidence--obviously. But the second is, and most important, the context out of which the evidence is coming. We need to know who recorded those statements and under what circumstances and was this person set up. Then we can better evaluate what is actually going on here. As for the rest of Sterling's life I would say this right now. Journalists are looking for anything that will add fuel to the fire and pulling all kinds of things out of the context in which they were said. The problem is we don't know the context. Furthermore, some of the people making the accusations have thier own axes to grind here. Take the statements made by ex-clipper player Baron Davis. Somebody I had to watch play two years or so with the Charlotte Hornets. Davis was an Okay NBA player, but he can't run an offense. Sterling gave him a wheel barrow full lof money in Davis's declining years to help the Clippers get into the playoffs for the first time and the only thing Davis did was shoot them out of contention. So it may be that Davis got some flack for that from the front office, and now he sees it as payback time. So its things like that that have to be evaluated when considering the validity of what people are saying about Sterling. In any event we'll all know more in a week or so. Let the process unfold

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