I think you're missing the point. I take this as Sterling's quote is morally reprehensible, but actually pretty accurate to how athletes are treated by owners. What in the article made you think it's saying he's overstating the power he has over the players? and did so so strongly that you take it away as the crux of…

Yeah, that's so much more offensive that widespread racial and sexual discrimination by an employer and landlord.

But they aren't paid minimum wage when you factor in all of the appearances, etc., and they are subject to fines (which doesn't sound like an independent contractor to me - especially when the team also limits the other kinds of work you can do).

"The whole thing reads like a 1950s-era all-girls boarding school's guide to landing the star quarterback. (Not the Bills' QB, of course; any fraternization is grounds for dismissal.)"

Apparently you couldn't.

...until he finds out his fans speak Spanish. That won't go over well.

...bonus points for the name

If I can interpret, he's grasping at straws in order to sympathize with a racist.

Your comment made me realize how awesome it would be if they actually took the team away from him right before it finally won it

Maybe he's still trying to figure out how to give birth himself.

In fact, minor league baseball players are suing presently over not being paid minimum wage.

Your take, which misstates what the fighter was doing at the 8-count, doesn't count as revisionism? He put the mouthpiece back in on 7.

Hope you're right and they get him care instead of throwing him in jail like we do with most of Americans that need the same kind of help.

Edited: Fuck. Should have read your name.

If the hood fits...

No president has been disrespected by fellow politicians like Obama has. When's the last president you've seen asked for his birth certificate?

You are defending them. When you jump into this conversation, wherein people did send emails calling a black icon a nigger, and say that those people likely have good reasons to dislike our president that are completely divorced from their feelings on race.

You're missing the point. If those people weren't racist in the first place, they wouldn't be offended by his comments, and they certainly wouldn't respond with racist emails. Since they have proven his point correct, that makes what he said an observation, not some random racist comment (like "the only good N is a…

If Hank says it's motivated by racism and then gets a bunch of racist hate mail, doesn't that sort of support his theory?

Whether or not it's removed at all is debatable. I live in the Carolinas, and I regularly hear shit like this from people who assume it's safe to say it around a white guy. We recently called out one of my wife's friend's husbands for his casual N word use and all he said is "there's nothing wrong with that word, I…