So here is the Tweet, Rep. Pat Garofalo @PatGarofalo Follow Let's be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime 6:33 PM - 9 Mar 2014 Is it worthy of the publicity? Is it worthy of an an apology ? Is it really a racist statement? Probably not. For those who choose to make this a racist thing, there have been one or two or even three players who were not African-American in the NBA . I know this even though I would probably not notice if the entire NBA folded tomorrow. As far as street crime, I watch the news and keep an eye out for who is causing trouble in my own neighborhood and my eyewitness accounts could never be "tweeted." But then I don't use Twitter . I also don't believe that certain groups are being systematically discriminated against on a wide scale in 2014 the way they may have been in 1960. I think that when more of a certain demographic are...