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The interim president of the NAACP said Sunday morning that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will no longer receive a second lifetime achievement award that its Los Angeles chapter was going to give him next month.
Lorraine Miller made the announcement as a guest on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning.
"If you're silent about this, then you are accepting this," Miller told the show's host, David Gregory. "And people have got to say that this is not good and do something about it."
This would have been the second time in six years that the Los Angeles chapter would have been given Sterling its lifetime achievement award.
The NBA is investigating an audio recording purportedly of Sterling making racist remarks to his girlfriend. V. Stiviano. Commissioner Adam Silver said Saturday that the NBA needs to confirm authenticity of the audio tape and interview both Sterling and the woman in the recording.
"We do hope to have this wrapped up in the next few days," Silver said Saturday.
In the audio recording, the man believed to be Sterling questions Stiviano, about her association with minorities. TMZ reports that Stiviano, who is black and Mexican, posted a picture of herself with Magic Johnson on Instagram, a photo that has since been removed.
"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?" the man believed to be Sterling says. He continues, "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."
The website Deadspin released an extended 15-minute version of the purported conversation Sunday.
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