President Obama slam dunked LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling on Sunday, calling out the "ignorant" basketball executive for racist comments attributed to him.
From a world away in Malaysia, President Obama took long-distance shots at the Clippers clown, who was apparently captured on tape, telling his young girlfriend to steer clear of black people.
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk. That's what happened here," said Obama, a high school basketball player and admitted hoops junkie.
Sterling was mad that his girlfriend V. Stiviano, who is 23, had the nerve to post a social media picture of herself with beloved NBA and LA Lakers icon Magic Johnson.
"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people," Sterling reportedly said, in a recording posted by TMZ.
"But why publicize it on the Instagram and why bring it to my games?"
Sterling's dubious statements, Obama said, shows that America still has a long way to go to heal its centuries-old racial divide.
"The United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation," Obama said. "That's still there, the vestiges of discrimination. We've made enormous strides, but you're going to continue to see this percolate up every so often."
The president urged Americans to denounce Sterling's outrageous words.
"We've made enormous strides, but you're going to continue to see this percolate up every so often," Obama said.
"And I think that we just have to be clear and steady in denouncing it, teaching our children differently, but also remaining hopeful that part of why statements like this stand out some much is because there has been this shift in how we view ourselves."
Amazingly, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP was set to honor Sterling next month with its lifetime achievement award — despite his mile-long record of racially insensitive comments about blacks, Latinos and Asians.
That NAACP dinner is set to honor, as its person of the year, MSNBC talk show host, the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The National Action Network leader on Sunday demanded that the NBA suspend Sterling immediately.
"You cannot have someone own an NBA team in this country and have these kinds of attitudes," Sharpton told "Meet the Press."
"You must remember, he's settled multi-million-dollar lawsuits in the past and he has a background [in racial insensitivity]."
Sterling's Clippers play Game 4 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series against the Golden State Warriors at 3:30 p.m. today.
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