O.S. and topic staler than a two-week-old Uneeda biscuit.

Let's give him another Lifetime Achievement Award!

Sterling is still rambling and to attack Magic AGAIN is plain stupid. Right on, Rob, 555 points!

Wonder what Sterling's thoughts on Screaming Jay Hawkins would be. He'd probably think SJH was a legitimate black musician

As Walter Williams pointed out, Sterling may be a racist, but he also pays a lot of Black men a lot of money to fulfill their dreams of playing professional basketball. It's called "capitalism". People will do the right thing, because it is the profitable thing, regardless of their personal feelings. Just imagine a bigot trying to put an all-white basketball team on the court in the NBA.

Could go the other way too. It has been speculated that had Germany taken Britain in 1940 that the US might still have traded and stayed out of the war. Secret trading went on through neutral third parties and you know some of the stolen Reichsbank loot was transferred to the US via U-boat at sea.

Where could I learn more about trade between US and Germany during the war? Not sure where I read it, but think I heard that artificial eyes were one of the products. Switzerland may have been an outlet for some items. Didn't know about the U-boats and the gold.

Trading with the Enemy Act violators!

Hey Patrick, ever heard of Marge Schott? She was an owner of the Cincinnati Reds and she referred to a stellar black Reds player as her "Million Dollar Nigger". His skills meant more money in her pocket. It ain't a matter of "doing the right thing", she looked at the Reds players as just pawns to gain her lots of moolah and prestige while she sat on her ass. If his playing got her a bag o' cash then SO BE IT. It's an attitude of the queen bee that does NOTHING but lay eggs all day while the workers keep her comfortable and do all the dirty work. It's a POV unworthy in the sports world. That notion of Sterling the Racist Dog paying off big bucks to black hoopsters and that being good enough to make them "fat, dumb and happy" is a cop-out. If I were black I wouldn't want to play or work for some buttwipe who looks at my kind as no better than a bunch of cockroaches. Racism by any color against a color has no place today. Racism and hate always eventually leads to violence because it portrays others as less than people. RACISM KILLS.

It's hard to change a person's beliefs. But, the free market can make the practice of racism unprofitable. Sport demands and rewards excellence. An owner who excluded high performers because of their race would lose to owners who made opportunities open to all. I once attended a historical society presentation on the Ku Klux Klan in the Kansas City area during the 1920's and 30's. It turns out that one of the owners of the Negro League Kansas City Monarchs was also an official in the Klan. On the other hand professional sports is an anachronism, where wealthy men can "own" other men and trade them with each other. The only difference between Marge Schott and some plantation owner in 1850 is the cost of the "nigger". Of course, the salaries received by the players far exceeds that of an antebellum field hand, which is why they accept the system. I don't think I would care if someone thought of me as a cockroach, as long as the checks didn't bounce, and I was a well-paid cockroach.