T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 1 觉悟高自己举报自己racist言论，然后被迫卖球队，据说这样可以省一大笔税。
上次sterling是不是也玩的这个套路。
Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after revealing he wrote racist
email
Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson will sell the franchise after the
revelation of a 2012 email he wrote stereotyping African-American fans.
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Levenson made the announcement Sunday
morning with joint statements. Silver discussed the issue with some owners
late last week, but many other owners and team officials did not know of it
until Sunday's announcement, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
The announcement comes a little more than four months after the release of
an audio tape in which former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling
made racial comments to his reported girlfriend. Silver banished Sterling
from the NBA and forced him to sell the team. Sterling's wife Shelly closed
the sale of the franchise to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2
billion last month.
Levenson apologized for the August 2012 email, which was sent to Hawks
general manager Danny Ferry and stereotyped the differences between black
and white fans in Atlanta. The Hawks posted a copy of the email on their
website on Sunday.
In the email, Levenson complains that too much of the Hawks' fan base at
games is made up of black fans, keeping white fans from attending games.
"My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are
simply not enough affluent black fans to build a signficant [sic] season
ticket base," Levenson wrote in the email. "Please don't get me wrong. There
was nothing threatening going on in the arean [sic] back then. I never felt
uncomfortable, but I think southern whites simply were not comfortable
being in an arena or at a bar where they were in the minority. On fan sites
i would read comments about how dangerous it is around [Philips Arena] yet
in our 9 years, I don't know of a mugging or even a pick pocket incident.
This was just racist garbage. When I hear some people saying the arena is in
the wrong place I think it is code for there are too many blacks at the
games."
Levenson also complained the team had too many black cheerleaders.
"I have told them I want some white cheerleaders and while I don't care what
the color of the artist is, i want the music to be music familiar to a 40
year old white guy if that's our season tixs [sic] demo," Levenson wrote in
the email. "I have also balked when every fan picked out of crowd to shoot
shots in some timeout contest is black. I have even bitched that the kiss
cam is too black."
Levenson apologized for his comments in his statement on Sunday.
“Over the past several years, I’ve spent a lot of time grappling with low
attendance at our games and the need for the Hawks to attract more season
ticket holders and corporate sponsors," Levenson said in the statement. "
Over that time, I’ve talked with team executives about the need for the
Hawks to build a more diverse fan base that includes more suburban whites,
and I shared my thoughts on why our efforts to bridge Atlanta’s racial
sports divide seemed to be failing.
"In trying to address those issues, I wrote an email two years ago that was
inappropriate and offensive. I trivialized our fans by making clichéd
assumptions about their interests (i.e. hip hop vs. country, white vs. black
cheerleaders, etc.) and by stereotyping their perceptions of one another (i
.e. that white fans might be afraid of our black fans). By focusing on race,
I also sent the unintentional and hurtful message that our white fans are
more valuable than our black fans.
"If you're angry about what I wrote, you should be. I'm angry at myself, too
. It was inflammatory nonsense. We all may have subtle biases and
preconceptions when it comes to race, but my role as a leader is to
challenge them, not to validate or accommodate those who might hold them."
Silver said Levenson notified the NBA of the email in July, and the league
followed with its own investigation. Nevertheless, a high-ranking league
official with direct knowledge of the probe disputed that Levenson simply
self-reported the email to the NBA. NBA spokesman Mike Bass denited that
claim, telling Yahoo: "Any claim that Mr. Levenson did not self-report his
email is categorically false."
"Prior to the completion of the investigation, Mr. Levenson notified me [
Saturday] evening that he had decided to sell his controlling interest in
the Atlanta Hawks," Silver said. "As Mr. Levenson acknowledged, the views he
expressed are entirely unacceptable and are in stark contrast to the core
principles of the National Basketball Association." | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | | d********r
发帖数: 9331 | 3 找个理由想出手，体育馆黑压压一片，没救了。
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 自我举报是神马精神？
| d*******3
发帖数: 8598 | 4 这是个艰难的问题，this is a big question
自虐加受虐？大义灭亲（自己），公正无私。 | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 5
场上黑压压，看台变黑是迟早的事情，棒球比较多样化，黑白都有还混迹不少日本人，
貌似观众组成也比较正常。没去看过nba，不知道啥样。
【在 d********r 的大作中提到】
: 找个理由想出手，体育馆黑压压一片，没救了。
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 6
中国有句老话：紧斗私字一闪念。
墨黑国看来要补上文革这堂课。
【在 d*******3 的大作中提到】
: 这是个艰难的问题，this is a big question
: 自虐加受虐？大义灭亲（自己），公正无私。
| G**L
发帖数: 22804 | 7 估计是受不了了，不玩了。钱木有赚多少还得违心的舔天使
【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 自我举报是神马精神？
| g*********e
发帖数: 14401 | | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 9
nba估计场上看台都要被老黑统治了，需要diversify。
【在 G**L 的大作中提到】
: 估计是受不了了，不玩了。钱木有赚多少还得违心的舔天使
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