This is still America, right?

So, the NBA playoffs are happening. The owner of the Clippers has a bi-racial girlfriend. If I understand things correctly, the girlfriend took a picture of herself with a black man and posted the picture online. The Clippers' owner, her boyfriend asked her not to post the pictures online or bring black men to the game with her. This conversation was a phone call that just happened to be recorded (apparently without the boyfriend's knowledge) and then the tape was released to the press. Now the media is in an uproar, the NBA has banned the owner for life, and is going to try to make him sell his team. For what? For a supposed private conversation he had asking his girlfriend not to do something? This was a (supposed) private conversation. He (as far as I know) has not danced around in a white sheet with the KKK. What happened to freedom of speech? Or is it now only freedom of politically correct speech? And what about people like Michael Vick, who tortured and killed innocent creatures, and is still allowed to make millions playing football? Yes, the owner of the Clippers may be racist. But I still believe that he has the right to voice his opinions, even if I don't like them. this is still America, right?