{"id":8789,"date":"2014-05-03T21:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:47:29","slug":"stiviano-speaks-about-sterling-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/03\/stiviano-speaks-about-sterling-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiviano speaks about Sterling, recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>V. Stiviano: &#8220;I think Mr. Sterling is from a different generation than I am.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wL3J7TgNtR\">http:\/\/t.co\/wL3J7TgNtR<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/nJI3YHI4Du\">pic.twitter.com\/nJI3YHI4Du<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCLA\/statuses\/462548405655707648\">May 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">V. Stiviano says Donald Sterling&#8217;s racist comments on an audio recording leaked to the public were not the first by the Los Angeles Clippers owner in conversations with her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s been a number of occasions where Mr. Sterling and I had conversations just like this one. This was one of very many,&#8221; Stiviano told Barbara Walters on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;20\/20&#8221; in an interview that aired Friday night. &#8220;Part of what the world heard was only 15 minutes. There&#8217;s a number of other hours that the world doesn&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">Sterling told Stiviano in the recording that she should not post online photos of herself with black people, including basketball great Magic Johnson, or bring black people to Clippers&#8217; games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">The recording, which an attorney for Stiviano said was leaked by a third party, led to public outcry across the country and the NBA. Some sponsors dropped the Clippers and others re-evaluated their relationship with the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">On Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life, fined him $2.5 million and urged league owners to force him to sell the team. A three-quarters vote by the NBA owners is required to force him to sell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">Though Stiviano told Walters that Sterling should &#8220;absolutely&#8221; apologize, she said she still loves him like a father figure and does not believe he is a racist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">&#8220;I think Mr. Sterling is from a different generation than I am,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think he was brought up to believe these things &#8230; segregation, whites and blacks. But through his actions he&#8217;s shown that he&#8217;s not a racist. He&#8217;s shown to be a very generous and kind man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">Stiviano said that since the ban, Sterling has felt confused, alone and not supported by those around him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">&#8220;I think he&#8217;s highly more traumatized and hurt by the things that he said himself,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think he can&#8217;t even believe or understand sometimes the thing he says, and I think he&#8217;s hurt by it. He&#8217;s hurting right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">A real-estate mogul, Sterling has been accused of racial missteps before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">The billionaire had paid a $2.76 million settlement to resolve a federal lawsuit accusing him of systematically excluding blacks and Hispanics from his rental properties. He also won a wrongful termination lawsuit by general manager Elgin Baylor, who accused him of various slurs and slights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"color: #363636;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V. Stiviano: &#8220;I think Mr. Sterling is from a different generation than I am.&#8221; http:\/\/t.co\/wL3J7TgNtR pic.twitter.com\/nJI3YHI4Du \u2014 NBC Los Angeles &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1145,44],"tags":[2830,2829],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-headline","category-sports","tag-donald-sterling","tag-stiviano","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}