. >> tavis smiley weigh in on this financial question because a lot of people and alice hoffman just set the record straight for of us that this was the los angeles chant not the statewide entity. >> it's poor judgment. he should never have been honored in the first place particularly given his history that ali has laid out already. she's right about the fact these organizations survive on the contributions not of just the members and i'm frubd lifetime member of the naacp, but they also survive on these contributions from corporate america. i quite frankly don't have a problem with that. there's so much money that corporate america makes off the consumer spending of programs they ought to put money back in these organizations to help them do the repair work. donald sterling should never have benton tloibts honored in the first place. >> alice hoffman, tavis smiley thank you so much for joining us tonight. donald sterling is not a household name to most americans at least not before this weekend. one person who does know him personally is larry king, talk show host extraordinary and