“I think that diversity in ownership was important to the NBA,” says Charles Farrell, head of Rainbow Sports, a division of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH coalition.
In joining the NBA’s elite club, Johnson is helping to insulate the league against charges of running a plantation. Bush waged war on the estate tax and social security, Johnson lent an assist by framing both debates as civil rights issues. Beyond this, it also showed Johnson, again, positioning himself as the point man for rich white guys who want to get a message out to minority America. Johnson’s acquisition was just the latest evidence of a man elevating his money game to heights unseen by African Americans. Johnson paid the NBA some $300 million, more than twice the fee the last expansion franchise brought. It wasn’t the racial sleight-of-hand that Johnson tried to foist on Pollin that carried the day, but the same thing that gets anyone a pro franchise: cold cash. Last month, Johnson made history when the NBA awarded him the Charlotte franchise to replace the erstwhile Hornets. In any case, eight years after trying to buy the Wizards, he has won a team of his own.
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Throughout his career, Johnson has relentlessly traded off his skin color to get ahead-while at the same time, he’s been criticized by other African Americans for having little social conscience. The racial math may have made sense to Johnson, but Pollin didn’t bite. The city is mostly black, and the players are too.’ ” “I told him, ‘Abe, you’re from the suburbs, I’m from the city. “I made the appeal from a sociological perspective,” Johnson later told The Washington Post. There was nothing elegant about Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson’s attempt in the mid 1990s to buy the moribund Washington Bullets NBA franchise from Abe Pollin.
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