Recently LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded making very bigoted and negative racial remarks.
This was not Sterling's first time making very classless remarks about people based on race and color.
Sterling is who he is.
I am penning this letter to express my feelings toward Glenn Doc Rivers The Clippers coach.
Rivers represents grown and season Black men, or at least he should.
It is my position that if he takes the floor as Coach of The Clippers moving forward?
Then Rivers for me will move himself from being a man I have long been proud of to one that I will be ashamed of. Likewise, he will become the latest example that I will use of what is killing Black Men in America.
Dear Doc Rivers,
I have followed your career since Atlanta. I have always been proud of you as man. As a black man.Over the years the examples of proud, respectable, Black men to the world have been few.
Infact, in basket ball there are few names I respect off the court other than Bill Russell, Mutumbo and a few others.
I am writing because of the owner of The Clippers. As frank as I can put this.
PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING!
PLEASE DO NOT COACH ANOTHER GAME UNTIL WE GET THIS RIGHT!
I am God awful tired of trying to explain to young people that we DO NOT have to do every damn thing for a dollar.
You and the members of the Clippers are millionaires already.
This is your CHANCE to show the world what GREAT BLACK MEN DO when confronted with hard choices.
If you guys take the court.
I cannot and will not be able to look at your team with RESPECT ANYMORE.
I will be very ashamed of you and the fact that at one time I held you in such esteem.
Is it fair that I am willing to be so hard lined and abandon the good will that I banked on your image over the years over this issue? Maybe...maybe not. However unfair, we know what kind of man Donald Sterling is. The question is what kind of men will you and the rest of The Clippers be remembered as?
Will you go down in history as a group of men that stood up, sacrificed for a better world for all of us?
I look to Glenn Doc Rivers to impress on the players he coaches the importance of this moment. I dare say some of your players may not understand, that this will be a moment in time that will cement how you are thought of one way or the other forever.
Or will you be counted as another bunch of athletes that were selfish and sacrificed your people in pursuit of ore fame, and more wealth.
Thank You.
Raymond Tyler
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I have followed your career since Atlanta. I have always been proud of you as man. As a black man.Over the years the examples of proud, respectable, Black men to the world have been few.
Infact, in basket ball there are few names I respect off the court other than Bill Russell, Mutumbo and a few others.
I am writing because of the owner of The Clippers. As frank as I can put this.
PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING!
PLEASE DO NOT COACH ANOTHER GAME UNTIL WE GET THIS RIGHT!
I am God awful tired of trying to explain to young people that we DO NOT have to do every damn thing for a dollar.
You and the members of the Clippers are millionaires already.
This is your CHANCE to show the world what GREAT BLACK MEN DO when confronted with hard choices.
If you guys take the court.
I cannot and will not be able to look at your team with RESPECT ANYMORE.
I will be very ashamed of you and the fact that at one time I held you in such esteem.
Is it fair that I am willing to be so hard lined and abandon the good will that I banked on your image over the years over this issue? Maybe...maybe not. However unfair, we know what kind of man Donald Sterling is. The question is what kind of men will you and the rest of The Clippers be remembered as?
Will you go down in history as a group of men that stood up, sacrificed for a better world for all of us?
I look to Glenn Doc Rivers to impress on the players he coaches the importance of this moment. I dare say some of your players may not understand, that this will be a moment in time that will cement how you are thought of one way or the other forever.
Or will you be counted as another bunch of athletes that were selfish and sacrificed your people in pursuit of ore fame, and more wealth.
Thank You.
Raymond Tyler
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