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I'm a Hater, You're a Hater, Don's a Hater! (Confused?)

Donald Sterling be familiar to any. He is (or was) the big-time philanthropist who advertises big giveaways in the LA Times. Then again, how many people still read the Times?

Following prejudiced (not racist, since no one was physically harmed, right?) comments to his girlfriend, tape-recorded (illegally, but not by the NSA) for all to hear, maybe no one wants his money anymore.

The not-so-happily married Sterling was yelling at his girlfriend not to take pictures of herself with other black people. Sterling's girlfriend is half-black and half-Hispanic.

Confused?

The Daily Breeze blasted his face on the front page, next to his girlfriend, then following the rising tensions against the man for his comments.

He dated a woman of mixed minority heritage. But he doesn't like black people.

The guy is confused.

He donated to Democrats, yet he was a registered Republican. Or was he?Sterling represents the Dems, or the GOP?

Give me a break!

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He also donated to the NAACP, which gave back the money. Now, when will the leader of the North Carolina chapter apologize for calling black Republican US Senator Tim Scott " a dummy"? That’s racist!

Is the NAACP racist for taking the money, or keeping it? Or both? Did you hear about the LA Chapter's President, who suddenly resigned (he was indicted for public integrity crimes in Michigan)

When does this hater not-so-merry-go-round end?

I imagine Jason Alexander, aka George Costanza before hitting it big, singing in a commercial: "I'm a hater, you're a hater. . ."

Diet Dr. Hater!

Maybe Seinfeld can help us. In one episode, Elaine was dating a guy whom she thought was black. She didn't have the courage to ask, because that would be. . .racist (or stupid?)

Still, she thought herself black by association, and she told a black waitress: "I hear ya, sister!"

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Elaine's a hater, too. At least she still dances white.

Later, Elaine's boyfriend admits that he thought she was Hispanic.

"What? No, I'm not."

 "So, we're just two white people?"

Are they racist because they were not the races that they thought they were? Sterling could have learned something about proper race relations watching Seinfeld. Then again, Sterling was too busy watching those Clippers games, or yelling at his girlfriend of the week. He probably wants to watch them without black people. (Repeat: His girlfriend was black)

“Who cares?” Serenity now!

How did this whole tizzy get started?

Someone recorded his private conversation without his consent. Isn’t that a crime? That damned NSA? (Nope, the girlfriend). Speaking of which, shouldn’t the media be exposing the federal government’s outrageous, criminal invasions of our privacy?


"President Obama is black (actually, mixed, like Sterling’s girlfriend). Criticizing the President is racist."

Why stop with Sterling, then? The LA Times printed his advertisements ad nauseum.

The LA Times is racist, and so is The Daily Breeze! (except on the days when I’m printed there)

Seriously, though, this whole culture of entitled offense is getting really annoying.

"Clive Bundy is a hater because he compared slavery to welfare." Stupid? Yes. Racist? No.

The New York Times contorted itself to make him look like a hater. Since the New York Time when out of its way to portray Bundy as a hater, then the NYT editors must be a haters, too!

The real alarming element in all of this, frankly, falls on the "Media Fail" Fourth Estate, i.e. Press, which is supposed to expose misrule through publicity, but instead spends more time printing these little incendiary stories about off-hand remarks about race, as if they define the current state of race relations.

Yawn. Shrug. Meh.

“Donald Sterling is a hater, and so are you!”

No, no, no.

Donald Sterling made racist remarks, and has deep prejudices? Yes.

Why is Sterling’s inner perversions taking front page in the first place? Secretary of State John Kerry remarked that Israel may create an apartheid state. Such comments from an international official have timeless and global implications. Kerry the hater! Where's the front page headlines on this guy? 

Kerry ought to step down, since he doesn’t have a basketball team to sell. How about giving up the Heinz 57 varities, since he probably hates diversity.

The former president of Iran, Ahmed-nutjob, declared "We are going to blow Israel off the face of the earth!" He represents an immoral, evil, and a policy from a head of state hostile to another country.

Even not-so-funny lib-comic Bill Maher takes threats against the state of Israel seriously.

However, he pushed the empty fraud about the racist TEA Party. He’s  a hater, too (or just a schmuck).

Then again, Maher outed First Lady Michelle Obama for racist remarks about other blacks "more interested in balling than studying".

The black guest on Bill Maher's thought a white person (Rep. Paul Ryan) said that. He was wrong!

That makes him a hater, too, huh?

Or does it?

Confused?

You're a hater!

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