But Emily ... he has earned a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP. Doesn't that count for something?
The NAACP is a vast organization, it was a local chapter that made the blunder. He put on a good public show, covered hos tracks and donates a heap of money. I'm not condoning it but don't get carried away, it wasn't a national decision. It's not like they called a successionist racist freeloader a patriot.
The insiders of the sport weren't shocked, apparently his behavior was well known in the inner circles.
On a personal note, my beloved late grandfather was an loud old Jewish racist. He was so racist he was convinced my sister's South Asian boyfriend was black, everyone darker then a tan was black to him. The difference is he would have been much older then Sterling, too old and set in his ways to be influenced by the civil rights and he didn't own a sports team where 70% of the players are people he feels are inferior. I don't understand why he or Sterling thought the was better, the Klan or Tea Party (same difference) hates Jews too, we weren't exactly revered until the Second Coming nonsense and that's only to convert us so they can get their rapture.