Political Quotes

“yesterday, all America watched while Commissioner Adam Silver and the National Basketball Association acted justly in punishing Donald Sterling for his harmful racist behavior. Commissioner Silver banned Mr. Sterling from the NBA for life, and there was a $2.5 million fine. I, along with most all of America, applaud the NBA's work in swiftly moving to stamp out bigotry from its ranks. Commissioner Silver and the NBA leadership have set the standard for how professional sports organizations should act in the face of racism. I wonder today how the leadership in the National Football League, the NFL--that money-making machine--I wonder if they have taken notice of the NBA's decisive action? How long will the NFL continue to do nothing--zero--as one of its teams bears a name that inflicts so much pain on Native Americans? I have 22 tribal organizations in Nevada. All over America, especially in the western part of the United States--but not only in the western part of the United States--we have large numbers of Native Americans. It is untoward of Daniel Snyder to try and hide behind ``tradition''--tradition? That is what he says--in refusing to change the name of the team. Tradition? What tradition? A tradition of racism is all that name leaves in its wake. Mr. Snyder knows that in sports the only tradition that matters is winning. So I urge Daniel Snyder to do what is morally right and remove this degrading term from the league by changing his team's name.…”