"Innocent until proven guilty" is just a fading memory

I see where Adrian Peterson is the latest (black) dude to get the tar and feathers in this neo-Puritan era.

Thus destroying the reputation and the career of another iconic athlete on the altar of political correctitude.

It's not just the black dudes and it's not just the athletes, of course...

Look what happened to billionaire Donald "honcus blancus" Sterling when he ran afoul of the prevailing standards of justice.

Those prevailing standards have nothing in common with the old standards. Innocent until proven guilty has been augmented with "unless previously condemned in YouTube video." 

Nothing in American jurisprudence makes it a crime to be a misogynist or a racist pig.

Those are First Amendment banalities.

We're heading into uncharted territory here, the territory of "justice by social media."

Facebook can be the judge, jury, and executioner.

Clippers owner to reap billion dollar windfall after racist rant

Yup, his conniving bimbo girlfriend thought she had him by the balls when she released that recording of Sterling's offensive musings about black folks. You know, black folks like the ones who play on his team, live in his developments... hell, even black folks like the bimbo herself!

Politically correct America went ape-shit. Never in American history has more outrage been generated, more umbrage taken!

Wrongs would have to be righted, virtue would have to prevail. The NBA declared that the senile windbag would be forced to sell the franchise, to sever once and for all the relationship between that racist relic from a bygone era and the most progressive sporting brand in the world.

Looks like the Clippers are going to Steve Ballmer for two billions. That's about a billion dollars more than the most optimistic estimates of the team's value prior to this controversy.

Let that be a lesson to racist tyrants everywhere...

Racism finally expunged from America!

Thank God!

150 years after emancipation America has finally got rid of the last traces of racism!

It all happened when the billionaire owners and the millionaire players and the middle-class fans of the NBA came together to shame 'n shun the senile shitbag Donald Sterling.

Truly a kumbaya moment!...

Ya, I suppose that's better than nothing, but what is it really?

Vacuous symbolism?

From where I'm sitting, it still looks like whitey goes to college and the black dudes go to jail.

But it was one hell of a feel-good moment!

American society is racist through and through

Spare me the faux outrage over Donald Sterling.

All the usual equality entrepreneurs like Al Sharpton are weighing in on the issue.

Fact is, 150 years after emancipation, white folks go to college while niggers go to jail.

Which is not to denigrate the achievements of those black folks who get to college, or to the NBA. But if one thing is true in America today, it is this; no matter how steep the climb from nothing to middle class "respectability", it's twice as steep for black folks.

So a white fat-cat makes some untoward remarks about black people, and everybody acts like this is some sort of deviation from a civilized norm. It isn't. It's merely a deviation from the norm that we don't talk about our systemic racism in public.

The NBA has produced more black multi-millionaires than any other business venture in American history. Maybe the NFL or MLB gives them a run for their money...  Let's celebrate that, but as we do, let's remember that's the exception.

The unmitigated stupidity of Sterling's remarks put paid to the concept of meritocracy. As far as I can tell, his Clippers are entirely dependent for their success on the black folks both in the stands and on the court.

As a not-too-bright white fat-cat, Donald Sterling may be biting the hand that feeds him, but what his racist ruminations reveal is nothing out of the ordinary in contemporary America.