#Quickblurb: The Sterling Affair

By now everyone has heard black belt racist and Los Angeles Clippers' owner, Donald Sterling's recorded racist tirade that made Mel Gibson say "c'mon man!" You may have also heard that as a result of said tirade, Mr. Sterling has been banned for life from all NBA functions, and rightfully so.

Who would of thought an 80 year old white American male would have harsh feelings for minorities? Rumor has it that the man tried to sue Fox Searchlight Studios for copyright infringement because 12 Years a Slave was what he named all the contracts he had his players sign (I kid, I kid).

Let's look beyond Skeletor...I mean, Sterling, and come to terms with another villain in this story. I'm talking about the NAACP (yeah, I said it!). Not only do they refuse to take the term "colored people" out of their name, but they were ready to award Sterling with a second (yes, second) lifetime achievement award days before this incident made news! Not only is it ass-backwards to give someone 2 LIFETIME achievement awards, but Sterling had a long documented history of racist behavior way before TMZ put him on blast. I mean a looong history. Here's a list courtesy of Business Insider, because I don't feel like writing that much right now.

Now, according to Yahoo! News, Roslyn M. Brock, the chairperson of the NAACP National Board of Directors, wants to meet with NBA commissioner Adam Silver to talk about...ahem..."the influence and impact of racism" in the league. Come the eff on. Al Sharpton is somewhere calling her a drama queen. How am I, or anybody else for that matter, supposed to take this attempt to piggy-back a hot topic seriously? With the disturbing amount of Black-on-Black violence going in Chicago, they haven't spoken out once as an organization, yet this is an issue of importance they want to jump on

Let's look past the fact that they have spent the last 20 years supplying Sterling with justification for his horrific views by showering him with multiple lifetime achievement awards. That's not even the real crime here. They still have "colored people" in their name, how racist is that? The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I mean, who was their founding father, Archie Bunker? Its bad for the Redskins to call themselves the Redskins, but no one has issue with this?

All I'm saying is, if someone called me colored, I'd be pissed, bottom line. I have issue with your priorities, Ms Brock. Forget racism in the NBA, the NAACP's next order of business should be a name update (colored people...seriously?).