First Donald Sterling, Now Mark Cuban:
NBA Owners—Stop Your Racist Shit and Get the Fuck Out of Here
May 26, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
From a Reader:
First we had Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA (National Basketball Association), with his racist shit. (See Revolution/revcom.us article "Donald Sterling Rears His Ugly Racist Head") Now we have Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA team the Dallas Mavericks, coming out with more racist shit. In trying to say that "we are all bigoted" in an underhanded way that in reality supports Sterling, Cuban said in a May 21 interview with Inc. magazine online, "If I see a black kid in a hoodie, and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. If on that side of the street there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face—white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere—I'm walking back to the other side of the street."
First of all Mark, we are not all bigoted like you. Further, your comment about "a black kid in a hoodie" is the same outlook as that of George Zimmerman, who in 2012 murdered Trayvon Martin, "a black kid in a hoodie." And this bald-headed, tatted-up white guy could be Chris Anderson (also known as the Bird Man), who plays for the Miami Heat of the NBA. I guess you don't want to sit courtside when Chris Anderson is on the court.
Having come under heavy criticism from various sources, Cuban on May 22 apologized to Trayvon Martin's family, saying that "In hindsight I should have used other examples." Do you think, Mark, it would have been just fine if you used "different examples" that were not as sickening as referring to Trayvon Martin but which also reflected your bigotry? Cuban makes his position clear: "beyond apologizing to the Martin family, I stand by the words and substance of the interview."
This system has criminalized a whole generation of youth in this country, and the world outlook of people like Mark Cuban, who fear these youth because of the way they look and dress, only buys into and reinforces their criminalization.
This shit has got to go. We ARE building a movement for revolution, and building the Party as its leading core, to put an end to this shit and this world outlook once and for all.
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