printWhat a relief: A panel of CNN cretins comprising Marc Lamont Hill and two interchangeable females magically coalesced around the following idea: There was absolutely nothing racial whatsoever about the beating by blacks of a white store clerk. Only a week back, the same sort of empaneled fools—at least an interchangeable one—intoned in unison about the ostensible racism behind the Ferguson killing ad nauseum.
Well of course.
Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson quickly shed his property—sold “his controlling interest” in the team—because, in the course of trying to “put customers in seats,” and “build a significant season ticket base,” as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar put it, he voiced some obvious concerns, as to:
“… whether … the emphasis on hip-hop and gospel music and the fact that the cheerleaders are black, the bars are filled with 90% blacks, kiss cams focus on black fans and time-out contestants are always black has an effect on keeping away white fans. … My theory is that the black crowd scared away the whites and there are simply not enough affluent black fans to build a significant season ticket base. … ”
One would think that it’s a team owner’s responsibility to state reality as he sees it.