The Cost of Racism

It’s official: the Clippers–and the rest of us–won’t have Donald Sterling to kick around anymore. The NBA has barred Sterling for life and fined him 2.5 million dollars–the maximum amount allowable. League president Adam Silver says he will “do everything in [his] power to ensure” Sterling will be forced to sell the team.

What did we learn? There really isn’t room for racism in the NBA! Now who’s ready to tackle the racism outside the NBA?

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Author: Susan X Jane

Susan X Jane, Principal of Navigators Consulting, has over 30 years of experience exploring race and representation in both the public and private sectors.  Susan is a transracial adoptee—a Black woman raised in a White family and community—an experience that created an early focus on the way race shapes our concept of ourselves and each other. Susan has worked to address race and racism as a community organizer, nonprofit program developer, professor of communications, and consultant to corporations and impact-focused institutions.  As Principal of Navigators Consulting, she draws on decades of experience to work with organizations in the public and private sectors. To any who seeks to build a better world, she offers her skills as a teacher, coach, and strategic partner to help create diverse and inclusive environments where the humanity of all is respected and protected.

2 thoughts on “The Cost of Racism”

  1. Hmmm, we’ll see. The way institutional racism operates… maybe the only reason the NBA did what it did was because over 80% of the players they have are BLACK. Now imagine if they didn’t act on it. It would be a one in a million chance but if a majority of the Black players stood against this and said we ain’t playing until the entire NBA does something about it and to prevent it in the future, that’s not something that NBA would want to do damage control over. I guess the move they made was strategic, nonetheless.

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