Racism, really?

Racism is horrible, don't get me wrong, but in my opinion, people went to far.  We have the freedom of speech don't we?  You can't take those rights from people even if they say something terrible.  In my opinion, Donald Sterling should not have been banned.  He won't be able to attend anything and he still owns the team!  I do in fact agree with the fine of 2.5 million dollars.  They could have made it less, but I guess he deserves it.  If I were the players and fans I would just try to act as normal as possible.  They can't do anything about what happened.  What Donald Sterling did was horrible, but they could have cut back on the punishment a little bit.