Is Mark Cuban Being Racist?

Billionaire Mark Cuban is in his second full season as one of The Sharks He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and invests in companies, both on and off ABC’s Shark Tank TV Show. Mark Cuban has launched several companies including Broadcast.com (originally known as Audionet), a company that I enjoyed using in the nineties. He later launched the successful television network, HDnet Engaging Mark Cuban

Cuban's comments come at a particularly sensitive time for the NBA, which is in the midst of trying to force Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell his team after he made racially charged comments on an audiotape. Sterling was banned for life and fined $2.5 million by NBA commissioner Adam Silver after the release of a TMZ recording in which he told a female friend, V. Stiviano, not to bring black people to Clippers games. Retirement lasted five years when Cuban and Indiana alum Todd Wagner had an idea to stream college games via the Internet so they could listen to Indiana basketball. The duo started Audionet in 1995 with a single server and ISDN line. Broadcast.com cured the homesick fan, according to Cuban. OWNER OF THE N.B.A. CHAMPION

If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street,” said Cuban “If I see a white guy with a shaved head and tattoos, I’ll move back to the other side of the street. None of us have pure thoughts, we all live in glass houses.” If you're going to have a problem with what he said about the black person with the hoodie on then you have to have a problem with the white person he alluded to with tattoos all over his body," he added. "I don't think there is any ethnic group in America that should take issue with Cuban's comments as a personal affront to them or as if he were isolating them."

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