Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Clippers for $2 billion

[olddad56]

18. I wonder how many white men in their 80s in the US actually are not racist...

even though many of them would never see themselves that way. I'm not excusing Donald Sterling for anything, but I honestly don't think he saw himself as a racist person. I say that because in the recorded private conversation that went public, he didn't use any obviously ugly racial slurs or show any hatred toward people of color. White people of his generation had racism so extremely embedded in in their minds that there is no way most people of that time saw people of color as being equal. It is sad, but in many parts of this country that mentality still exists. People who grew up when this country was so much more racially divided that it is now, have learned to be more politically correct, and are not necessarily haters, but I don't think many of them, deep down inside, have ever gotten to the point where they would consider people of a different skin color to be equal. Just my opinion.