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Race Hustling 101!!
Rochelle Sterling: The Clippers? Cruella de Ville - The Daily Beast
Rochelle Sterling: The Clippers Cruella de Ville
If Mrs. Sterling has any intention of attending more playoff gamesmuch less holding on to the teamshe needs to explain her role in her husbands effort to push out minority tenants.
If Rochelle Sterling wants her family to retain ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, she better first prove she was not complicit in her husbands effort to drive black and Latino tenants from the apartment buildings he owns.
As has been widely reported, one of Donald Sterlings former property supervisors testified in a 2003 housing discrimination suit that when she remarked on an odor at a newly acquired building, her boss responded, Thats because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, theyre not clean. And its because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day.
The property supervisor, Sumner Davenport, testified that Donald Sterling had then said, So we have to get them out of here.
What has not been widely reported is Davenports testimony regarding Rochelle Sterlings unusual role in managing the properties.
Sumner Davenport declares that when she worked for Sterling she often accompanied Rochelle Sterling on apartment inspections. Rochelle Sterling would regularly pose as a government official in order to gain access to tenants apartments, and during the inspections Sterling directed her to record, among other things, tenants ethnicity, noted federal Judge A. Howard Matz.
The defense contended that the information regarding ethnicity was in response to a request by an unnamed FBI agent in the wake of 9/11 that Sterlings company make every possible effort to learn whether any tenants in his building are foreign nationals.
The judge noted the plaintiffs contention that the true purpose of the bogus official inspections Rochelle Sterling conducted was to harass and intimidate African-American and Latino tenants.
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Before that action was announced, a TMZ cameraman accosted the Sterlings outside a steakhouse on Sunday night and asked if he is a racist.
No, of course not! Rochelle Sterling replied.
She subsequently took a slightly different position regarding her husbands taped comments about blacks as well as her apparent relationship with him, telling TMZ, Our family is devastated by the racist comments made by my estranged husband. My children and I do not share these despicable views or prejudices. We will not let one mans small-mindedness poison the spirit of the fans and accomplishments of the team in the city we love. We are doing everything in our power to stand by and support our Clippers team.
She told ESPN, I do not condone those statements that you heard. I do not believe in them. I am not a racist. I never have been, never will be. The team is the most important thing to my family.
For the families in the Sterling apartment buildings, the most important thing no doubt would have been to live without having the landlord harass them and seek to drive them from their homes because of their race.
That was denied them.
And if Rochelle Sterling had anything to do with it, she should not be allowed to attend a game, much less to own the team.
Race Hustling 101!!