Sunday, May 4, 2014

NBA Hypocrisy: Black NBA Owner Held Black Only Party, Whites Turned Away; NBA Did Nothing

Debbie Schlussel writes:
In the wake of this week’s NBA proposed lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine for Donald Sterling, a longtime reader reminded me that I’d written about another NBA owner, a Black man, who held a party in which Whites were refused entry and turned away. And, yet, the NBA did nothing.


As I’ve already pointed out, Black racism and bigotry against Whites, Jews, Mormons, and gays is tolerated by the NBA. But a private racist conversation by a White owner is not. And here is an instance of a Black then-NBA owner whose public, deliberate racism was tolerated and ignored. Jay-Z a/k/a Shawn Carter was an owner of the Brooklyn Nets, an NBA Team, from 2003 through mid-April 2013. But, as I noted on this site, in February 2010, Jay-Z held a lavish party at the Merah club in central London, and banned White people from attending. The party, for music industry executives, reporters, and other Jay-Z ass-kissers was for Blacks only. Bouncers were instructed to refuse entry to Whites.
Reader Chris reminded me that I’d written about this, and noted:
Wasn’t Jay-Z part owner of Brooklyn/New Jersey Nets when he threw that racist party you wrote about? I don’t remember any NBA controversy over that.
I don’t either, but here’s a reminder from my 2010 post, “More Obama ‘Post-Racialism’ Courtesy of Jay-Z“:
Jay-Z was caught up in a race row when bouncers at his BRITs after-show party “banned” white people from boozing with the star. Chart legend Jay-Z threw a lavish bash but music industry executives, journalists and revellers were turned away from the roped-off area because of the colour of their skin.
Minders were spotted banning clubbers from the private event because they were not “of colour”. . . . One clubber said: “The security guards were happy to let in all party-goers apart from the white people.
But here is how things get real interesting. Jay Z sold his stake because he wanted to become an agent. CNN reported at the time:
Earlier this month, the rapper and entrepreneur launched Roc Nation Sports, a joint-venture sports management agency with Creative Arts Agency.
National Basketball Association rules stipulate that agents can't both represent professional athletes and have a stake in a team. For Jay-Z to move forward as an agent, he had to relinquish control of the sports franchise.
Will the NBA and the NBA Players Association ban Jay-Z from representing NBA players?  Fat chance.  From a pure libertarian perspective, Jay-Z can throw parties for whomever he wants and ban whomever he wants. My point here is the hypocrisy of the NBA. They will be outraged by the non-racist comments of Donald Sterling (SEE: What Donald Sterling Did Wrong), but look the other way at the clearly segregated party thrown by Jay-Z.

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15 comments:

  1. I do think it needs to be said that Jay-Z never owned more than like 2% of the Nets. But the point about NBA hypocrisy still stands.

    This story about Larry Johnson (former all-star in the 1990s) calling for an all-black league got zero play in the mainstream media: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/28/in-wake-of-sterling-fiasco-ex-knicks-great-larry-johnson-appears-to-call-for-all-black-league/. According to that article, he is currently an executive in the Knicks' front office.

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    1. What does the percentage of ownership have to do with this example?

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  2. It's only ok when they're racist. I'm a straight white male so I'm automatically some evil pig to these PC shit heads. The hypocrisy of the Idiot Left knows no bounds.

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    1. why drag right or left into it. This has to do with neither. Your just looking for it.

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  3. " But a private racist conversation by a White owner ...."

    Fail........... once again.
    Looks like the media is having a real tough time with this.


    As for Jay Z.
    I never heard this story before, very interesting.
    I bet there are other examples out there.

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  4. Ok, the NBA is run by hypocrites who turn a blind eye to blacks' racism. No surprise, there. Yet, how, exactly, does this violate NAP?

    I think that you'd need evidence of something like this: There is a black supremacist movement afoot in America, and the NBA is cooperating with blacks to provide financing for that movement through player salaries. Of course, you'd have to show also that player salaries are being used to advance such a movement.

    It's by the way that the black supremacists with whom I cross paths regularly claim to be the chosen people of a god. So, they are basically just superstitious narcissists with a burning desire to establish a despotism. Any of this sound familiar?

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  5. So you really believe everything you read on the internet, huh? As someone who attended the party..there were white, black, asian, mixed race people in attendance. You sound ignorant.

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  6. I disagree that it's actually hypocrisy, even if the event occurred. Truth is, the NBA doesn't care about racism. If the NBA ever cared, they would have removed Sterling a long time ago. This cost lots of money. Not hypocrisy, capitalism. Choose your words better. Also, if there was a hypocrisy, it's because racism has never effected the white population at all. I'm biracial, I've never heard not one member of my white family bring up not one incident where racism has effected their lives. It's pathetic to even invent problems that aren't there.

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    1. Your family isn't the only white family in the nation or world. Its very common in certain cities in the south. Jackson, MS and Atlanta, GA are two examples. I know from personal experience that blacks are racist against whites. Heck, look at the "knockout" game as one example. You are not qualified to make the statement, "racism has never effected the white population at all." Your race is irrelevant to the fact that racism is alive and perpetrated by all races. Have you walked in my shoes? Or a Jew's shoes? Then you are not qualified to discount the facts. Just like the fact that Sterling is a racist. But racist blacks don't fit the storyline you want so you make false claims of "never". Part of the problem. Period!

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    2. I'm white. I went into a store in a predominately black part of town. I was in line and every black man who came into the store cut in front of me. That's just one example of several.

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    3. That's because you are a p*ssy not coz you are white lol.

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  7. Wow! You conservatives just take anything you pull out of your ass and post it as truth. Only the sleasiest of right-wing blogs are posting this--not even Fox Noise. lol

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  8. The definition of racism according to the mainstream media is anything black people don't like. Floyd Mayweather goes on a racist tirade on ustream about asians and the media barely covers it for a day, and that's the end of it; basically they chalk it up to Floyd being Floyd. Whenever Mayweather's name is brought up, you never hear about this ever again. But if he was white, you can bet your bottom dollar the media won't ever let you forget about it, and would call for him to be run out of the sport. Whenever Riley Coopers name is brought up in the media, even after all this time, there is a high percentage chance they will remind you of what he said. White people need to stop being silent these double standards.

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