Donald Sterling’s Beard
The Sterling fiasco was born of a disgraceful and wide-ranging rejection of fairness, decency and privacy. I never thought I could hate it more than I already did.
The Sterling fiasco was born of a disgraceful and wide-ranging rejection of fairness, decency and privacy. I never thought I could hate it more than I already did.
When an organization represents a whole profession and the profession is in crisis, every decision matters, and every message counts. If you don’t pay proper attention to preserving your organization’s image and integrity, you may end up giving an award to Donald Sterling, and then everyone will begin to suspect that your organization isn’t as competent and serious as it’s supposed to be.
We are allowing our cultural values and priorities to be steered and warped by political expediency, the venality of professional sports, bias, slanted media coverage, double standards, a predominance of curs and fools, and worst of all, the absence coherent balancing and objective analysis to help the public understand what is right, what is wrong, and what is more wrong.
As horrible as it is for us to have to rely on such a scuzzy champion, Sterling is fighting for our freedom. For that, and nothing else, we owe him our respect and gratitude.
But I doubt that it will feel very good.
I realized that the Donald Sterling controversy was going to be a full-blown ethics train wreck when, as I should have predicted but didn’t, President Obama once again tossed his office, authority and power into a completely non-governmental matter that his involvement could only confound, and can’t possibly help.
This is like the Reign of Terror, when the French Revolution went bananas and started beheading people indiscriminately. Jokes will have to be whispered in lead safes, with the doors closed.
Any objective analysts must acknowledge that African-Americans insist on applying strict standards of tolerance and fairness for the statements of whites that they refuse to enforce with their own leaders and prominent figures with equal vigor.
And now, the latest and deplorable passengers on this distasteful Ethics Train Wreck..the NAACP, Harry Reid, UCLA, and…the Bunny Ranch???
The Donald Sterling Ethics Train Wreck has proceeded as I feared it would…