Michael Jordan Facts: Legendary Basketball Player Says He Use To Be A Racist + Talks Donald Sterling

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If you thought you knew all the facts about your favorite basketball player Michael Jordan, think again.




The legendary NBA star recently revealed that as a teenager growing up around the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the mid-seventies he was racist "against all white people.”




This confession comes from a new book written by Ronald Lazenby and entitled "Michael Jordan: The Life."




It is a fact that Jordan took up baseball before basketball. During that time, he was only one of two black kids on the team and constantly reminded how "inferior" he was. He even recalled a girl in school calling him the "N" word in 1977. As a result, he retaliated.




“So I threw a soda at her,” he said. “I was really rebelling. I considered myself a racist at the time. Basically, I was against all white people.”




It was Jordan's mom who actually changed his ways.




As the current owner of the Charlotte Bobcats basketball team, Jordan gave his opinion on Donald Sterling, the LA Clippers owner who was banned from the NBA due to racist comments he made to his girlfriend.




“I look at this from two perspectives — as a current owner and a former player. As an owner, I’m obviously disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views,” Jordan said about Sterling. "As a former player, I’m completely outraged. There is no room in the NBA — or anywhere else — for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed."




Jordan added that he is stunned how times haven't changed as much since he was a teenager.




“I am appalled that this type of ignorance still exists within our country and at the highest levels of our sport. In a league where the majority of players are African American, we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level,” he said, according to  Herald Sun .