Comments on: Donald Sterling is Homeless and Needs Your Help

by: Stephanie Schwedler

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:49:56 +0000

AS a currently homeless individual (in Los Angeles), I too was perplexed by Sterling’s ad…bad grammar, confusing intent, etc. Besides, doesn’t bazillionaire Sterling have enough wealthy friends that he could just give each of them a call to solicit $$$, thereby saving any $ he laid out for the newspaper ad & purposing said$ for said center? I’ve frequently said that alot of homelessness is “a mental health issue”, and I don’t think that you necessarily have to be/have been homeless to have the compassion to be of any merit in the area of helping the homeless. “walk a mile in my shoes”, blahblahblah…I would like to see Mr. Sterling, as well as any of the proposed staff for the Sterling Homeless Center, sleep outside on ANY SIDEWALK IN L.A. for just one night, and then maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to figure out the intent of his ad.

by: MSGQuixo

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:49:23 +0000

Uh, yea, it hasn’t been built or properly planned yet, so it is vague. Fine. Ok. So why the ad? It sounds like he is soliciting help for the homeless. Ok, Donald Sterling, I want to help you help the homeless, what do I do? First this incomplete sentence: “For information regarding the proposed Homeless Center.” Then if I want to inquire about one of the many fine services to be offered, I need to do what, send a self addressed, stamped postcard? What is the point of this ad? Bad ad and poor communication. Waste of advertising space and waste of the time of anyone who actually may have wanted to help ‘the homeless.’

by: Sterling fan

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:22:31 +0000

It seems to me the reason the text in this ad is worded so vaguely is because this Sterling Homeless Center doesn’t exist. The “picture” is only a proposed rendering. I’d bet good money that it’s never built. It’s all about Sterling and trying to get him some good press. As if that wasn’t clear enough from the observation that his head is bigger than the entire building in this ad.