So will Shaq be banned from the NBA and forced to sell his stake of Sacramento Kings?
 

Obviously not. Just thought it was an interesting question.

What is worse? Telling your girlfriend in what you believe is a private conversation that you don't want her to bring black people to your games? Or publicly shaming a disabled person to over 500,000 people?

They should freeze his bank accounts.

write a letter to the nba.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...ts-not-enough/

On Wednesday, Binion told TheBlaze he accepted O?Neal?s apology, but would like to see him do more.

Of course not, only white people would face serious trouble, black person in the same situation - only little trouble.

I don't care about either case enough to complain to anyone. Just thought the obvious double standards at play here were interesting.

well, now we know who harmon follows on instagram.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donal...history-2014-4 read it :2 cents:

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So do you believe that there is no difference in public reaction to when a white person says or does something considered racist, compared to when a black person says or does something considered racist?

If you do believe that.... OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES

I know the story already. I'm not defending the guy. Just pointing out what I view as a double standard.

Just imagine if a jew owner was on instagram mocking disabled black kids.

I know someone that banged Shaq when he was married and she has video and all kinds of shit of it. She is a tiny white girl too, It is unreal just thinking she fucked him many times.

Shaq should write him a big check to make up for it. But he wont.

Glad to see Shaq do the right thing. We all say/do stupid insensitive shit from time to time, sadly most people don't man up and take ownership of their mistakes As far as doing more, it would be a wonderful opportunity for Shaq (and the league) to help this man get his awareness campaign off the ground and going. Even if as nothing more as a face for the campaign.

Everyone compared to Shaq is tiny.

Apparently the guy already started a foundation against bullying. Sounds like a smart cookie. Shaq fucked with the wrong guy.

Perfectly fine. Both black, no big deal.

Shaq is Shaq. He is iron man!

Of course not. Shaq is a legend and it should stay that way. :)

Agreed. And reroute his money into mine :1orglaugh

The the NBA players of all times are black i liked Kobe and Shaq when they played together in LA,you can look so straight when its about audience

As a shaq fan i must say i am disappointed in him doing something like this. But comparing this to the Sterling issue is 2 different things.

I can only offer my condolences

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In the cases of Sterling and your hypothetical, we're talking about the disparaging of an entire race. Shaq mocked an individual, and retracted the offending tweet in addition to reaching out to him to apologize. I do not see how they are even remotely comparable.

Close, he was Steel

He wasn't disparaging an entire race. He told his girlfriend in private not to show up at his games with black people. If his girlfriend wasn't a scheming whore no one would even know anything about it.

Shaq on the other hand openly mocked a disabled person to his 500,000 followers. Of course he apologized. He didnt have much choice after the massive backlash on his twitter account.

didnt know teasing someone is at the same level as racism. teasing can kill you?? :helpme

I'm with you, man. I see the double standard.

Havent you heard the stories of multitudes of children killing themselves after being bullied or teased online? This guy probably had a tough enough life already, then to have one of your idols mock you in front of millions of people. I dont see the comparison with trying to keep your slut of a girlfriend under control in a private conversation. Having said that... sterling is a douche too.

its the leagues choice. they did it in the white house.(recorded private conversations) uh nixon stop being a cry baby :2 cents:

http://www.the-better-man.com/wp-con...love-child.jpg

I think Shaq was wrong.
I actually thought the pic was just some troll juice to play with Shaq when I first saw it.
It didn't seem like something Shaq would do, but he did.

Reality, Shaq is going to get a pass because we all call each other retarded all day long.
I mean, none of us can serve as witness against him without being destroyed with our own postings.

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i rarely ever name call. :2 cents: its childish

Niggas, honkies, crippled faggots and retards …. who gives a fuck.

I'm a cry baby because I am speaking my mind about an obvious double standard? If you don't want to hear it then kindly exit the thread.

Also, what does that make you when you were on your drunken bender talking about killing white people over the Trayvon case? A lunatic cry baby?

who are you and what have you done with L-Pink?

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jeez, that fattie looks like the hindenburg!

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:1orglaugh if you cant understand why they banned him. you never will. shaq is not a majority holder of an nba team! your reasons are racial! not on topic! sterling made statements about race! im done ramble on. :1orglaugh

I understand why they banned Sterling. I don't understand why they never gave Shaq the same treatment. Well I do, but I'm saying there's not a compelling reason he shouldn't have received the same treatment. He is partial owner of an NBA team. I'm pretty sure their code of conduct was designed to cover more than just racist remarks by majority owners.

Probably due to a lack of historical photographs showing black people hanging retarded people in the streets for fun.

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I don't see the correlation between telling your black girlfriend what to do and what a bunch of inbreds did 100 years ago.

god (face palm) understand the difference between franchisee and share holder :2 cents:

Your semantics are meaningless. They touted him as a minority owner in their marketing blitz. Of course he is not held to the same standards as others, right?

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/97...cramento-kings

they go after the guy with the money! :2 cents: that girl is a snake he knew it! he must have talked about racial shit a lot. it's not picking and choosing shaq does not have rights to the team. that article was before the shaq photo right?

I'll bet the majority of Black folks have said the same or worse about Whites than Donald Sterling did. The hypocrisy of situations like this is fucking pathetic.

The correlation would be that some people will wonder if anything has changed in 100 years.
It would be great if all people were able to "clear the slate" and say that history starts today.
But even then, the reality would be fried chicken and watermelon jokes tomorrow.

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Well, you just have to get with Thomas Riccio and get a tape made.


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they do trash talking in sports its a part of the game. when you tell a certain race not to show up its a problem. he's lucky he left out hispanics la raza would have fucked his ass up!! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm not talking about sports, I'm talking about everyday life and don't lie and tell me I'm wrong.


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An important distinction here is Shaq got to delete his bigoted gesture. Donald Sterling didn't get that luxury.



In 20-20 hindsight, IMO, the Sterling racist scandal was only made categorically worse by how Silver handled it. His punishment was a direct reaction to the mob rule that was demanding it. He failed firstly though in delaying action. What he should have done is immediately gone directly to Sterling and strongly, forcefully urge him to public apologize for his private comments.

That would have had a similar response from the public as Shaq's public apology did.

Instead Silver went into meetings with other team owners.

Then silver could have had more room to do something that actually made sense and also showed some sort of authority of the league.

not to mention gone a long way towards race relations and ending this drama that's pretty icky.


Maybe Shaq has better/smarter people advising him than either Sterling or SIlver, who knows. But it's fair to say Shaq's a fucking bigot based on the level of insensitivity he displayed in what he posted. A simple apology doesn't negate the underlying motivation.

I'd last about 7 minutes as a public figure.


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