This was, by far, the best analysis of the Donald Sterling saga.
Although without money there would be no advertising. Bizarre bedfellows indeed.The person skating above this is the girlfriend/legal prostitute
Reminds me of a local credit union that pays its CEO over a million dollars a year while providing virtually no interest on deposits, and charging higher interests rates on mortgages than their competitors.
(If this is the Mitch I think it is, he’s familiar with this story as we live in the same part of the country.)
The absurdity of the LA chapter deserves ridicule, despite real and indispensable progress made for 100 years at the national level and by other chapters across America – especially in the South, where they often have been the only advocate for justice.
Corporate and unsavory sources regularly contribute to the Democratic Party, environmental groups, religious charities, and other “progressives” that I support. That they fail my standard of ideological purity troubles me. (At least they’re not as blatantly hypocritical in rewarding some donors as that LA chapter.) But I haven’t given up on those groups yet, especially in light of the alternatives.
Dr. Du Bois, Ms. Wells-Barnett, Dr. King, Mrs. Parks, Mr. Evers, Mr. Wilkins, and other luminaries are gone, but – imperfect as it is – I wholeheartedly believe the NAACP is still a necessary and positive force for change, including marriage equality, voting rights, labor rights, climate justice, and lots of issues that go beyond “color”.
Hopelessly naïve in the eyes of some posters, I’m sure, but let’s not use too broad a brush in painting the bufoonary of the LA chapter.
Sure thus the tapes, otherwise we collectively, would have never known. The billionaire playing out of his league with Lady Gaga.
Quoted from the TPM article…
Sterling "has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A...”
It’s more like, Sterling shamelessly uses children to drum up money for his flim-flam foundation.
Also from the TPM article…
...hundreds of full-page and half-page ads that Sterling puts in the newspaper to promote his philanthropic endeavors.
Take an LA Weekly photo slide show . . .
Donald T. Sterling’s LA Times Ads - Slideshow
And here’s the LA Weekly article from 2008.
Donald T. Sterling’s Fake Homeless Center
After hiatus, ads began again
by Patrick Range McDonald Wednesday, Dec 31 2008
In March, L.A. Weekly exposed billionaire and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s empty promise to build a homeless center in downtown L.A.’s Skid Row. For nearly two years, Sterling had been running large, unavoidably garish and misleading ads in the A section of the Los Angeles Times, suggesting that the so-called Donald T. Sterling Homeless Center would soon be constructed to help some of the city’s neediest citizens.
The only problem was that Sterling had taken no known steps to actually finance the $50 million project, instead asking a homeless-service provider on Skid Row to somehow pick up his costs. Nor had Sterling carried out several routine protocols that must be followed for any major social-services or construction project to be approved in Los Angeles. Instead, he touted his project in big display ads in the Times, even as he failed to begin any basic paperwork, seek to meet with city planning officials, or otherwise launch the first steps of getting the often-difficult approvals for such a project.
The Weekly published these facts in its cover story, “Donald T. Sterling’s Skid Row Mirage,” and several key sports Web sites picked up and publicized the embarrassing situation.
~OGD~
Hi, tra. This post must be at least 20 characters long.
Money talks and bullshit walks. The NAACP is all about money now, it seems.