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  • With respect to the statements by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers -- for our Malaysian audience,

  • this is a sports team, basketball team in the United States.

  • The owner is reported to have said some incredibly offensive racist statements that were published.

  • I don't think I have to interpret those statements for you; they kind of speak for themselves.

  • When people -- when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance you don't really have to do anything,

  • you just let them talk. And that's what happened here.

  • I am confident that the NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, a good man, will address this.

  • Obviously, the NBA is a league that is beloved by fans all across the country.

  • It's got an awful lot of African American players. It's steeped in African American culture.

  • And I suspect that the NBA is going to be deeply concerned in resolving this.

  • I will make just one larger comment about this.

  • The United States continues to wrestle with a legacy of race and slavery and segregation that's still there -- the vestiges of discrimination.

  • We've made enormous strides, but you're going to continue to see this percolate up every so often.

  • And I think that we just have to be clear and steady in denouncing it, teaching our children differently,

  • but also remaining hopeful that part of why some statements like this stand out so much

  • is because there had been -- there has been this shift in how we view ourselves.

  • And like Malaysia, we constantly have to be on guard against racial attitudes that divide us rather than embracing our diversity as a strength.

  • And I know that the people of Malaysia

  • are committed to wrestling with those issues as well.

  • We have to make sure that we stay on top of it -- and we will.

With respect to the statements by the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers -- for our Malaysian audience,

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