Foul Shot

Yesterday's reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was caught on a 10-minute audio tape making racist remarks about African-Americans was shocking, even knowing Sterling's history of antagonism toward minority groups.  His mistress (Sterling's going through divorce proceedings) taped the bigoted owner warning her not to bring "blacks" to Clippers games, among other niceties.  An interesting psychological twist is that his mistress, V. Stiviano, happens to be half Mexican-American, half African-American.  Issues much?

The National Basketball Association has launched an investigation into the tape.  Depending on the outcome, Sterling could face sanctions from the NBA.  Beyond that, what player, African-American or not, would want to play for him?

UPDATE:  In the pre-game warm up, Clippers players took off their team shirts and tossed them mid-court to protest owner Donald Sterling's racist rant.  They also wore black socks during the game with Golden State.

UPDATE II:  Wrong-about-everything Wee Willie Kristol passes judgement on Sterling's remarks.  Short version:  move along, nothing to see here.

UPDATE III:  Despite furious efforts by some in the wingnut media to portray Sterling as a "liberal Democrat," he's a registered Republican.