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NAACP rescinds plans to honor LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling following racist rant
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has dropped their plans to honor Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in light of alleged racist comments.
“Let me make it clear, the NAACP will not be honoring Mr. Sterling at the upcoming Los Angeles branch event and we have strongly urged our Los Angeles unit to take the necessary steps to rescind the previous award they bestowed on him,” said NAACP Interim President and CEO Lorraine C. Miller.
The L.A. NAACP branch office had planned to honor Sterling with a “humanitarian of the year” award at its gala 100th Anniversary Dinner on May 15.
The announcement comes after audio recording obtained by TMZ alleged that Sterling urged his girlfriend not to bring black people to Clippers games or to post photos of herself with black friends on her Instagram account.
“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you are associating with black people. Do you have to?” the man believed to be Sterling says during an argument on April 9. He continues, “You can sleep with black people. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”
One of those now-deleted photos is believed to have been of the woman, V. Stiviano, posing with Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson.
The scandal has rapidly engulfed the National Basketball Association (NBA) and spurred a firestorm of reaction from U.S. President Barack Obama, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and Clippers president Andy Roeser.
