The divorce filing comes amid a battle between the Sterlings that flared after the former owner was booted by the NBA over a leaked recording of him making racist remarks.

Here we are, in 2015, and Isiah Thomas is running a WNBA franchise. It seems fair to wonder, as a national issue, are we essentially saying racism is intolerable, but sexism, not so much?

As an African American, I have empathy for angry white men because I recognize that they are experiencing the pain African Americans have long borne -- of being bystanders to the shaping of their identities and possibilities in an uncertain world.

He's burning everyone.