{"id":13493,"date":"2014-05-28T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2014-05-28T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T22:53:41","slug":"cuban-smoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/cuban-smoked\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban &#8220;Smoked&#8221;?!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is very eccentric<\/p>\n<p>He says what&#8217;s on his mind, &amp; always flashes that grin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13494\" title=\"Mark Cuban shark tank\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-shark-tank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-shark-tank.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-shark-tank-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>(&#8220;Tanks&#8221; for nuthin)<\/p>\n<p>Well, he stated this &#8216;line&#8217; the other day in <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-admits-prejudiced-bigoted\/story?id=23828818\">an interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I&#8217;m prejudiced, and I know I&#8217;m bigoted<br \/>\nin a lot of different ways. I think we&#8217;re all bigots<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any question about that&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how interesting. Um, no, many people <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have<\/p>\n<p>prejudices. Some do, many don&#8217;t. While he&#8217;s being so<\/p>\n<p>racial here, it&#8217;s not racist. Prejudice?! Yes. Bigoted?!?<\/p>\n<p>Most likely. He just thinks he&#8217;s &#8220;Telling it like it all is&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NO, that&#8217;s not how it &#8220;all is&#8221;. He, &amp; &#8216;Others&#8217; who only<\/p>\n<p>see the exterior don&#8217;t care. He is being &#8216;racialist&#8217; here<\/p>\n<p>But again, not racist. Methinks a reason, that he said<\/p>\n<p>this, &amp; partly defended Sterling based on the Slippery<\/p>\n<p>Slope argument is because there might be something<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13495\" title=\"Mark Cuban sleeping Clippers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-sleeping-Clippers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-sleeping-Clippers.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mark-Cuban-sleeping-Clippers-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/>(Irony: it&#8217;s the Clippers)<\/p>\n<p>out there taped in private where he said <em>horrible<\/em> shit<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s seeing what happened to someone else. But this<\/p>\n<p>is different. Cuban didn&#8217;t have a big history of racism<\/p>\n<p>His point is the &#8220;fragility&#8221; of taking or forcing out any<\/p>\n<p>owners. He voted to oust Sterling to his motives aren&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>in question. It&#8217;s just a guy worryin&#8217; about the PC police<\/p>\n<p>busting him someday. Don&#8217;t worry Mark, you&#8217;re SAFE<\/p>\n<p>RIP to &#8216;wonderful poet&#8217; Maya Angelou at the age of 86<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: Emotional Martinez The Voice Of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/05\/26\/shooting-victims-father-rips-rudderless-idiots-in-congress-i-cant-tell-you-how-angry-i-am\/\">Reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is very eccentric He says what&#8217;s on his mind, &amp; always flashes that grin (&#8220;Tanks&#8221; for nuthin) Well, he stated this &#8216;line&#8217; the other day in an interview: &#8220;I know I&#8217;m prejudiced, and I know I&#8217;m bigoted in a lot of different ways. I think we&#8217;re all bigots and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}