{"id":13849,"date":"2014-04-29T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13849"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:49:03","slug":"former-nba-player-want-racial-segregation-after-owners-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13849","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA player wants racial segregation after owner’s remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Knicks executive and former player Larry Johnson had a strong reaction to the racial remarks Clippers owner Donald Sterling is alleged to have made.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Johnson tweeted: \u201cBlack people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The initial indication was Johnson was calling for an all-African-American league complete with black ownership. It wasn\u2019t the first time Johnson, who is black, concerned himself with the fact the NBA\u2019s ownership is mostly white while its players are mostly black.<\/p>\n

During the 1999 NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs, Johnson caused a stir by saying: \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of rebellious slaves on this [Knicks] team.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked at the time why he referred to his teammates as slaves, Johnson said: \u201cI\u2019ve got to explain that to you? We don\u2019t go with the mainstream.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Johnson was hired by the Knicks two years ago and serves many roles as a basketball and business operations representative.<\/p>\n

When Donald Sterling\u2019s comments surfaced this week, they caused an uproar. The basketball franchise owner is also a Jew. Sterling attempted to justify his racism by invoking Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cDS: It’s the world! You go to Israel, the blacks are just treated like dogs.
\nV: So do you have to treat them like that too?
\nDS: The white Jews, there’s white Jews and black Jews, do you understand?
\nV: And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?
\nDS: A hundred percent, fifty, a hundred percent.
\nV: And is that right?
\nDS: It isn’t a question – we don’t evaluate what’s right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within that culture.\u201d
\n(via Deadspin)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Knicks executive and former player Larry Johnson had a strong reaction to the racial remarks Clippers owner Donald Sterling is alleged to have made. On Saturday night, Johnson tweeted: \u201cBlack people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!\u2019\u2019 The initial indication … Continue reading “Former NBA player wants racial segregation after owner’s remarks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[164,8887,8888,2597,8889,157,669,8890],"class_list":["post-13849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-apartheid","tag-clippers-owner-donald-sterling","tag-nba","tag-racial-segregation","tag-racial-sport","tag-racism","tag-sport-2","tag-white-owners"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/donsterling.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13853,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13849\/revisions\/13853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}