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Like the late Christopher Hitchens who only discovered his Jewish roots once he had moved to New York in the early Eighties, Donald Sterling has also had a revelation and is advertising the fact that he’s Jewish. For any of you who might not be aware who Sterling is, he was born Tokowitz 80 years ago but changed his name to Sterling to sound ritzier. He is a slum landlord who evicts poor women, began his career selling second-hand furniture to blacks and Hispanics, is as disgusting a man as you hope never to meet, and is, since a week ago, the most reviled man in America. His crime: telling a black girlfriend, who insists the relationship is platonic — one who has been arrested four times, however, and the recipient of at least 1.8 million big ones from Sterling — not to bring black people to LA Clippers basketball games, a team he owns, or rather owned.