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Donald Sterling and his comments

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Got a feeling most people could care less about what Sterling said but if you don't act all upset or think it was no big deal then you are considered racist. Face it, most of you all just bow down to peer pressure and are afraid of what others may think of you. Grow some balls. Not like Sterling called any one a nigger or of the likes. What if he told that skank he didnt want her bringing white guys to games and getting pics and stuff? Nobody would say shit.
 
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Not like Sterling called any one a nigger or of the likes.
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because you have to call a black person that before you're actually a racist, right?

What if he told that skank he didnt want her bringing white guys to games and getting pics and stuff?
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gee, i wonder why he isn't recorded saying anything like that...

Pinky said:
Face it, most of you all just bow down to peer pressure and are afraid of what others may think of you. Grow some balls.
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i agree. perhaps i'd respect guys like you and dub a little more if you actually just admitted that you don't trust the average black person.
 
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Pinky said:
Got a feeling most people could care less about what Sterling said but if you don't act all upset or think it was no big deal then you are considered racist. Face it, most of you all just bow down to peer pressure and are afraid of what others may think of you. Grow some balls. Not like Sterling called any one a nigger or of the likes. What if he told that skank he didnt want her bringing white guys to games and getting pics and stuff? Nobody would say [Mark May].
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:tibor:

Because racism is only about a certain subset of words.
 
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OK.. so the owner is a billionaire 80-year-old racist... real shocker.

What's worse.. beating your wife, or dropping the N-bomb? One gets national attention, the other is glossed over. Our societies priorities are outta whack. I haven't seen one dude stand up and say "fuck you Donald Sterling, I don't want your money." I mean, he has all kinds of equal housing lawsuits against him, his racism isn't exactly breaking news.

Fuckin' Magic Johnson preaching is ridiculous, too. Being racist is worse than sleeping with hundreds of women behind your wife's back and contracting HIV? I wish someone would have stood up from the African American community and said "ya know, this is terrible, but we've all made mistakes." Instead, all Magic wants is to buy the team. This is exactly how fools like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton become millionaires.
 
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Bleed S & G said:
OK.. so the owner is a billionaire 80-year-old racist... real shocker.

What's worse.. beating your wife, or dropping the N-bomb? One gets national attention, the other is glossed over. Our societies priorities are outta whack. I haven't seen one dude stand up and say "fuck you Donald Sterling, I don't want your money." I mean, he has all kinds of equal housing lawsuits against him, his racism isn't exactly breaking news.

Fuckin' Magic Johnson preaching is ridiculous, too. Being racist is worse than sleeping with hundreds of women behind your wife's back and contracting HIV? I wish someone would have stood up from the African American community and said "ya know, this is terrible, but we've all made mistakes." Instead, all Magic wants is to buy the team. This is exactly how fools like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton become millionaires.
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Uh, he slept with the women and got HIV before he got married, as I recall. He hadn't been married long when he was diagnosed.
 
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picked up a booker t washington half dollar at the coin shop today.

a few pages ago i said i would and today i did.

nice nearly 70 year old coin for just a shade over melt value.


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The History of Commemorative Coins
Congress authorizes commemorative coins that celebrate and honor American people, places, events, and institutions. These coins are legal tender but are not minted for general circulation. Each commemorative coin is produced by the United States Mint in limited quantity and is only available for a limited time.

The first commemorative coin, the Columbian Exposition half dollar, was authorized by Congress in 1892. During the ensuing 62 years, to 1954, the U.S. Mint was authorized to produce commemorative coins for 53 different events, occasions, or individuals.

However, beginning around 1925, many in Congress started to express concerns over bills introduced to "...commemorate events of local and not national interest..."

Eventually, hearings on "objectionable practices and abuses related to the issuance of special coins" were held in 1939, which resulted in Congress finally passing legislation to prohibit "...the issuance and coinage of certain commemorative coins." This ended any further minting or issuance of commemorative coins.


"And now, for the rest of the story..."
However, seven years later (1946), the Act is amended to allow a special one-time minting of an Iowa Centennial Commemorative coin. But the president of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial Commission, Mr. S. J. Phillips, pressures Congress for legislation to also authorize a Booker T. Washington half dollar, ostensibly to finance a restoration of Booker T's birthplace. However, some claim the idea was to profit through coin sales.

Congress, possibly fearing that voting against the proposal would bring accusations of racism, approves the bill and rushes it into President Truman's hands. It becomes law on August 7, 1946, the same day as the Iowa coin.

Only one other coin was produced: the last coin of the pre-modern commemorative coin program. It was the George Washington Carver-Booker T. Washington half dollar (from 1951-1954) and now you know...the rest of the story
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didn't buy one of these, probably will next time, the booker t washington - george washington carver half dollar.

i like the history of this coin. how the other booker half didn't sell, so they authorized another one so they could melt the unsold bookers down and sell these new coins. love how they made it for the charitable cause of preventing the spread of Communism with black people in america. perfect vichy DC type of nonsense that leads to a roughly $10 chunk of silver for me 70 years later.

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S.J.Phillips, the impresario we have to thank for the original BTW halves (preceding section), found himself unable to sell the remainder of his original authorization by the deadline, August 7, 1951, and managed to push a bill through Congress which became the Act of September 21, 1951. This bill probably would have failed except for a clause specifying that the profits of the new issue were to be used "to oppose the spread of Communism among Negroes in the interest of the National defense." As these were the days when the late and unlamented Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wisc.) exercised extraordinary power and was apt to denounce anyone who disagreed with his extreme anti-Communist position, Congress, doubtless afraid to seem like a pack of what McCarthy called "comsymps" or "Communist dupes," at once approved Phillip's bill, and President Truman signed it in equal haste. This bill authorized all the unsold BTW coins (both those in Treasury vaults and those already in the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial's hands in all, 1,581,631) to be re-melted for re-coinage into the new design; in addition, the bullion earmarked for the uncoined moiety of the BTW halves - enough to make 1,834,000 could be used for the same purpose. This meant a maximum of 3,415,631 Washington/Carver halves could be coined.
To help S.J. Phillips get his foundering Birthplace Memorial out of debt, and, to some extent, That Five Finger Word. Only from a speech by Congressman White were we able to learn that Phillips was the prime mover behind both the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial Commission and the George Washington Carver National Monument Foundation: apparently on the de mortuis nil nisi bonum "[peak] nothing but good about the dead" principle, almost nothing has been ascertainable about details of Phillip's questionable financial dealings, though evidently Congress heard enough about them privately to reject any further bills introduced in his favor even as late as 1962.
We are not certain to what extent Phillips was a cynical opportunist in emphasizing the blatant anti-Communist sentiment as a means of insuring passage of his W/C bill anywhere near three million of these coins to fellow blacks "united against the spread of communism," even in those paranoid days when millions of people imagined they saw communist bogey-men under every bed and in every gopher hole.
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