Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after revealing he wrote racist email

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LOL @ American sports

"Levenson apologized for the August 2012 email, which he said made "clichéd assumptions" about the differences between black and white fans in Atlanta.

“Over the past several years, I’ve spent a lot of time grappling with low attendance at our games and the need for the Hawks to attract more season ticket holders and corporate sponsors," Levenson said in the statement. "Over that time, I’ve talked with team executives about the need for the Hawks to build a more diverse fan base that includes more suburban whites, and I shared my thoughts on why our efforts to bridge Atlanta’s racial sports divide seemed to be failing.

"In trying to address those issues, I wrote an email two years ago that was inappropriate and offensive. I trivialized our fans by making clichéd assumptions about their interests (i.e. hip hop vs. country, white vs. black cheerleaders, etc.) and by stereotyping their perceptions of one another (i.e. that white fans might be afraid of our black fans). By focusing on race, I also sent the unintentional and hurtful message that our white fans are more valuable than our black fans."

[Clipper Nation]

Povertyball

[Holden_Caulfield]

if i ever run for office or own a sports team, they better not find my st account

[spurraider21]

if i ever run for office or own a sports team, they better not find my st account

i would get rejected by the bar

[Chinook]

I'd be fine, because it's okay for black folks to say racist things.

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Povertyball

I'll throw a banana on the field while you can't question blacks or else you will lose your home/job.

[Clipper Nation]

I'll throw a banana on the field while you can't question blacks or else you will lose your home/job.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/soccer-...7889--sow.html

Teams literally get kicked out of povertyball tournaments for having racist fans, but keep on pretending like it's any different or better than our sports....

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/soccer-...7889--sow.html

Teams literally get kicked out of povertyball tournaments for having racist fans, but keep on pretending like it's any different or better than our sports....

LOL @ i want my team to stay in a Tournament so I can keep sucking their black s

It's ing Sports.

[Clipper Nation]

LOL @ i want my team to stay in a Tournament so I can keep sucking their black s

It's ing Sports.

Punishing the players by kicking them out of a tournament because of racist fans
Literally stopping a game because of racist fans: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/12/sp...taly-football/
Making a team play in an empty stadium because of racist fans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26704368
Fining a team 40,000 euros ($51,806) because of racist fans: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27374486
Povertyball

[Blizzardwizard]

Boiled down:::

Soccer > Life

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Punishing the players by kicking them out of a tournament because of racist fans
Literally stopping a game because of racist fans: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/12/sp...taly-football/
Making a team play in an empty stadium because of racist fans: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26704368
Fining a team 40,000 euros ($51,806) because of racist fans: http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27374486
Povertyball

Fans are not willing to see Monkeys parading around their towns (causing mischief) in exchange for sport. This doesn't apply in the USA because every American city is infested with monks.

[Avante]

I'll never figure out this need to play pretend. With black superiority at running back, wide receiver, kick returner, defensive back, basketball, sprinting, hurdling being overwelming. What, we need to pretend its not like that.....why?


You want legit jazz, blues, hip hop, rap....black! Reggae....black!

Blacks have kinky hair, yep they do.

So by telling it like it really is.....racist?