Sterling boasts of feeding and clothing his black players, brings up the Jews as well

Apr 28, 2014 11:57 GMT  ·  By
The owner of the LA Clippers Donald Sterling and his girlfriend, V. Stiviano
   The owner of the LA Clippers Donald Sterling and his girlfriend, V. Stiviano

Donald Sterling, the controversial owner of the LA Clippers, has gotten himself in trouble again, after audio of a conversation between himself and his girlfriend V. Stiviano emerged online. A longer version of the audio has now surfaced and, though seemingly impossible, it’s even more scandalous than the first.

In the first 9-minute chat, Sterling was heard giving Stiviano a hard time because she had posed with Magic Johnson at a recent game and then posted the photo to her Instagram. According to Sterling, she should not “broadcast” her association with blacks, let alone bring them to his games.

He even urged her to love black people (as part of a larger point he was trying to make that he wasn’t racist), but to do so “privately,” without letting the world know because, if she did, then he would receive calls to be informed about it. Apparently, that’s a bad thing.

The conversation was longer than that, as the video below can confirm, and also included references about Jews, the Holocaust, and Matt Kemp. In fact, it was the fact that Stiviano had also posed with Kemp that started it all over again: she thought it would be ok if she posted the pic to her social media accounts because he was “mixed, just like me.” Sterling disagreed.

When she asked him how he could be so filled with hate yet work with the black people on his team, Sterling really let loose.

“I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have — Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?” he asked.

It was initially believed that the conversation had taken place over the phone, on April 9. This new video seems to confirm that Sterling and Stiviano were in the same room when it happened. This, of course, begs the question of whether Stiviano was not involved in its leak, since it would be too much of a coincidence if she weren’t.

As the world continues to react with shock and disbelief to the things said on the recording, Sterling is still keeping mum. Even the US President Barack Obama has addressed the controversy in a recent press call, stressing that Mr. Sterling served to prove that racism was still alive and well in the United States.