Sterling barred from NBA for life (+ Video)

“Donald Sterling, the longtime owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, was barred from the N.B.A. for life and may be forced to sell the team for making racist remarks, the league commissioner, Adam Silver, announced Tuesday. Silver said that Sterling would be barred from any contact with his team and the league and that he would be fined $2.5 million, the maximum allowed by the league’s constitution,” reported The New York Times.

Silver recently took over the job of commissioner vacated last year by David Stern.

We are glad to see that the new commissioner has set the bar high on how things will be handled in the N.B.A. under his administration. Racism will be death with in a speedy manner, Silver demonstrated.

It reminds me of words written just recently by Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s in a dissenting view of a Supreme Court case that dealt with race:

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination,” Sotomayor wrote. “[W]e ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society. It is this view that works harm, by perpetuating the facile notion that what makes race matter is acknowledging the simple truth that race does matter.”

[Video courtesy of The Washington Post.]