Hours after a recording leaked of racist comments supposedly attributed to the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, the scandal seems to be far from ending.
On Friday, April 25, website TMZ leaked a recording of the 80 year old businessman and multimillionaire having a fight with his girlfriend, V. Stiviano.
Almost immediately, the recording caused a scandal of enourmous proportions owing to the amount of racist comments in the recording.
"In your lousy f****** Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people," says a man, presumably Sterling.
"If he's white, is that alright? If it was Larry Bird would that be different?", the woman asks.
In the rest of the tape, Sterling is heard asking his girlfriend not to take black people with her to games, or to upload pictures to social networks.
"You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that... and not to bring them to my games."
Sterling's statements "are incredibly racist": Obama
The statements attributed to Sterling became so relevant that on Sunday President Barack Obama condemned the Clippers' owner from Kuala Lumpur in Malasya and described them as "incredibly racist".
"When ignorant people make their ignorance evident, all you can do is let them talk," said President Obama, the first African American President of the U.S., who said that the NBA is deeply connected to the African American culture, reported The Independent.
The controversy grows
On Sunday, a new segment of the recording was released by Deadspin.com, and it contains further xenophobic and racist comments, this time not only against African American people but against Jewish people, who, in the words of Sterling, are inferior to white people.
"...I thought Matt Kemp was multiracial and that he was fine, just like me," says Sterling's girlfriend in the new recording.
"You think I'm a racist... an evil heart... That's the world. You go to Israel and black people are treated like dogs... There's white jews and black jews, do you understand?" is Sterling's reply.
Under investigation
Since saturday, reactions to Sterling's racist statements have been flowing, and sports and music figures, such as Magic Johnson and Snoop Dogg, have pronounced themselves against Sterling.
Fow now, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that the league is already investigating the incident, but assured that it's too early to talk about sanctions against Sterling, quoted CNN.
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