Lies, regardless of origin, are horrible.    However, when they are done to purposefully manipulate and create a narrative, lies can become worse.

Progressives should be *REALLY* careful with this story.    Progs -as a collective- (the various grievance check box groups) are being set up / used for the financial benefit of V. Stiviano and her attorneys.    {{{pass-the-popcorn}}}

Donald Sterling is a Democrat Fundraiser , and a democrat supporter/donor.  He’s a slimy bastard and has been for a long time, but the current accusation is constructed for financial benefit.
Sterling is the owner of the L.A Clippers his “former” girlfriend is V Stiviano a woman of dubious character.    She is, by race, Mexican and Black.   She is also being sued by Sterling Inc. for “embezzlement” of almost $2,000,000 ($1.8 million) from him.  Embezzlement is what they call it in Hollywood when you charge a Ferrari, two Bentley’s, and a $1.8 mil condo to drop your panties.

Donald Sterling Inc. also includes Mrs. Donald Sterling – D’oh….   Who is suing the “girlfriend” for return of family assets.   So, after Stiviano gets handed papers for the lawsuit she hires an attorney and tells Sterling she would “get him back“.
She’s set him up.
The “set up” is constructed around an oft argued personal issue they have/had historically between themselves.
Stiviano had often complained to Sterling that her friends didn’t like him -and consequently leery of her- because they thought her boyfriend, Sterling, was a prejudiced bigot, which he probably is – but that’s not the substance of the latest construct.
Against the backdrop of the prior conversations about her friends, and their racist opinion of her boyfriend within her social circle, she recorded a phone call.


THE SUBSTANCE IS actually IMPORTANT:
THE SET UP – Stiviano calls Donald Sterling and gets into a conversation of familiar historical reference.     She records the conversation, without his knowledge, because she wants to set up a racist element to assist her legal team.
During the conversation, to get the desired end result, Stiviano says she publicizes her friendships and relationships with black people (Instagram picture with Magic Johnson etc.) specifically because she needs to counter weight the opinion, within the circle of her friendships and relationships, that her former boyfriend, Sterling, is a racist bigot.
Stiviano is proclaiming because of her relationship with him, her reputation has been damaged.   Ergo she needs to re-image herself without the toxic relationship weighting down perceptions of her.
Mr. Sterling is telling Ms. Stiviano she doesn’t need to do that.
Sterling is telling her on the phone call that she does not need to broadcast herself with such intentions because a.) he doesn’t care,  and b.) he doesn’t need her efforts creating issues in his own racial Public Relations or brand.
The ensuing disagreement is about Ms. Stiviano saying she has a need to re-brand, and Sterling saying “fine”, but her re-branding is creating issues that he then has to deal with.    {{{whatever}}}
In essence he’s saying, ‘I don’t give a flip who you hang out with, have sex with, or whatever you do whatever you do with…  I don’t need your assistance managing public perceptions of me.  And your decision to re-create your own image is your own issue.  However, when you emphasize your own racial-rebranding componentry, I end up with phone calls having to deal with whatever it is’.   {{{It’s an LA thing – apparently}}}
The recording was done April 9th – after they had already broken off the relationship and after the Donald Sterling Team made the decision to address the embezzlement with Stiviano.
TMZ Edit Script from Audio 

— “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30) 

— “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want.  The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” (5:15)

— “I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” (7:45)

— “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.  And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)

The Donald Sterling issues with Magic Johnson are less to do with race than the rivalry between the LA Lakers (Johnson) and the LA Clippers (Sterling).
During the legacy of the Magic Johnson basketball era the LA Lakers became a dynasty.  The Clippers, um, not-so-much….
That Magic Johnson is black is generally secondary to the reasoning that Sterling doesn’t privately like him.    However, for the sake of immediate value Johnson played an important role in Stiviano’s scheme.
Stiviano knew that another publically broadcast picture of herself with Johnson would irk Sterling.    Hence the foundational door for the phone call is established.
Johnson probably doesn’t even know he was played as a useful pawn.   And probably doesn’t care now that a person of dubious moral character, that owns a competing franchise -that he generally didn’t care for- is going to be attacked as a construct of his participation.
Hey, if the Clippers suffer – the Lakers reap the benefit, right ?    Win/Win.
All is not what it appears….

….. but hey, let’s not tell the sheeple masses that part.
Lo-Fo’s are a valued commodity amid the various Grievance Industrialists.

What is going on? The Nevada Rancher & Clippers Head making racists statements. BUT the Gov. of Georgia allowing guns in churches? What?

— Rev Jesse Jackson Sr (@RevJJackson) April 26, 2014

ROFLMAO – That didn’t take long.