Mickey Reilly
AP Language Period D
Ms. Hasebroock
September 7,2014
Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/us/atlanta-hawks-owner-bruce-levenson-racist-email/index.html?hpt=us_c2
Atlanta Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson is allegedly selling his team after being caught sending a racist email about 2 years ago concerned about how the fans at the games are almost all black. He stated that he wanted to bring in more white people to the games because the black people were scaring the whites away from coming to the game. Levenson had some ideas about how to 'bring the whites back in', such as bringing in some white cheerleaders and playing music that a 40 year old white man would listen to, however, they were all shot down. He is now willingly selling his team after the email was leaked to the public.
This is unacceptable for an NBA team owner to be talking bad about his team's own fans and he should be facing much worse consequences. Although being racist is not illegal, Levenson should have to pay for it somehow other than having to be looked down upon and having to sell his low income team.
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