Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after racist email

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24. Denial is not just a river in Egypt,

which is why white privilege is so insidious.

The arrogance of white privilege denies the racism of this and assumes that the white is "universal" and everything else is "other". There is nothing in the email that claims that the black crowd is "normal", despite the fact that they were STILL paying supporters of a poorly managed and poorly performing team. Below (from the actual email) is typical racist dribble -

I have been open with our executive team about these concerns. I have told them I want some white cheerleaders and while i don't care what the color of the artist is, i want the music to be music familiar to a 40 year old white guy if that's our season tixs demo. i have also balked when every fan picked out of crowd to shoot shots in some time out contest is black. I have even bitched that the kiss cam is too black.

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In the past two years, we have created a section of rowdy college students that has been a big plus. And we do a lot of very clever stuff during time outs to entertain the crowd. Our kiss cam is better done than any in the league.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/us/nba-hawks-levenson-racist-email/index.html

In the privileged white world, "rowdy college students" (re: "white" college sudents) = "fun" whereas "noisy black fans" (re: "black thugs", even if they graduated from or were attending college themselves) = "scary and low income". And this despite the fact that Atlanta is home to a large consortium of black colleges - e.g., Clark-Atlanta U, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Spelman, etc.).

But such is the way things are and it will take a long time to dislodge this nonsense.