Columnist Suggests Basketball Team be Renamed ‘New York N——s’
- Posted on May 4, 2012 at 4:54pm by
Becket Adams
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Brooklyn Nets logo.
Phil Mushnik of the New York Post is not too keen on rapper Jay-Z’s newly-branded Brooklyn Nets and he lets his readers know exactly how he feels in his Friday column [emphases added]:
As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?
Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N——s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B—-hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way! [Emphasis added]
Yikes. You know this isn’t going to end well for Mushnik. It wasn’t long before the columnist was being called out for “racially insensitivity.”
“There is so much going wrong at once that it’s a bit overwhelming,’” writes Mediaites Sarah Delvin.
Jay Z wearing the Brooklyn Nets Logo.
“Just…wow. It’s tough to believe that his editors let this slide, as backlash will undoubtedly ensue,” writes the Twitchy team.
“This Phil Mushnick take on Nets/Jay-Z is remarkably ignorant,” Sports Illustrated’s Andy Glockner writes.
Delvin provides further analysis:
…maybe particular attention ought to be paid to the phrase “full Jay-Z treatment.” My first guess about what the “full Jay-Z treatment” might mean regarding the Brooklyn Nets might be something along the lines of “courtside seats and maybe a surprise appearance by Beyoncé,” but that’s a bit of a boring interpretation if the goal is to be as racist and out of touch as humanly possible.
However, as the Twitchy team points out, Mushnik was most likely making tongue in cheek references to actual Jay-Z songs that use the “n-word” (and similar obscenities). Furthermore, the writer is “no stranger to taking aim at rappers in his work,” Chris Littmann of Sporting News writes.
New York Post columnist Phil Mushnik.
Still, even if his remarks were meant as a joke or a snarky reference to the rapper’s songs, it was a bad, bad idea.
You know there’s going to be backlash over this.
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Comments (67)
YesNdeedie
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:13pmNY Ganstas
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:47amSome folks just can’t handle the truth.
Report Post »huufarted
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:54pmLOL@The Blacklash…
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:30pmI like it, it’s free speech, remember that??? I think a lot of blacks are the ones in need of racial sensitivity training.
Report Post »Tax Revolt
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:30pmYou forget whites are not allowed free speech. A white man cannot stand on stage and make fun of black people or any other “RACE.“ Yet any ”PROTECTED CLASS” of people can make fun of whites without impunity.
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:13pmShow me one rap or “hip hop”(puke) lyric that isn‘t a retread of something that was already said in the 90’s. Hell, even the late 80′s. This idiot is well into his 40‘s and hasn’t had an original idea in his career. Hey jay-z, WEST SIDE b**ch!! The funny thing is I haven‘t been proud to be from California since the 90’s either.
Report Post »NLN
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:01pmIt has a good beat and you can dance to it.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:54pmI’d say that is the name that people have been calling them (the team) in private for years….
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:33pmHere is Jay z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA-xTBeHyM
Report Post »inblack
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:57pmWell we have completed the double standard.
JayZ can use the N word and call women Ho’s and bitches and is still allowed to own an NBA team.
But, a reporter cannot report on it and make the obvious points.
F me I’m white, I have no rights!
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:19pm@InBlack,
You’re wrong. You do have rights. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against in you in the court of public opinion. You have the right to apologize for your unfortunate skin colour.
Now, do you understand these rights as they have been written to you?
Report Post »MinCali
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:55pmWow. Can we say “imbecilic”…thanks for sharing that and ya, inblock, “Well we have completed the double standard.” is spot on.
Report Post »Forgive them as they know not what they do…
(did you catch the Mao jacket on one of the guys?)
Our history education is absolutely zilch…so, so pathetic
Baddoggy
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:31pmHe needs a new name…White Toast
Report Post »TRUMPETCALL
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:43pmCharles Manson was correct:
There will be a coming Race War.
Don’t ya kinda wonder how he knew – all those years ago???
Tic… Toc…
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:30pmWait what there is a team called the Nets?
Report Post »When did that happen?
johnVMFA122
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:28pmMushnick is a tool, pure and simple…
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:13pmI agree! It’s an ignorant word to use! I wouldn‘t want my kids using it and I’m not saying ban free speech, but we all know there are better ways to express!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:56pmStupid People… create Words… that they do not want Spoken!
Report Post »tonydanibradbury
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:26pmEyes……….shooting…………blood……..ahhhhhh
Report Post »Coonrapids
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:10pmWhat is basketball?
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:01pmMushnik was most likely making tongue in cheek references to actual Jay-Z songs that use the “n-word”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>Most likely?
>Yes.
Report Post »Hill60
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:57pmWasn’t it JayZ that tried to co-opt the Occupy movement with his own JayZ brand t-shirts?
So now he’s done it again – create a logo/look for the Brooklyn Nets – and cash in. Of course if people don’t like his ideas, they’re obviously raaaaaaacists!
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:39pmThe Nets are a crappy team in a even crappier league. Does anyone with a life still watch pro- hoops? We’ve known for several years now that the NBA is as scripted as the WWE. Heck, at least the WWE winks at ya’. Jay-z, you Satan worshipping, Obama loving, untalented, greeze-ball!! Go away, already. Rap music has been dead since ‘96. I’m sick of being force fed you and your ditsy wife.
Report Post »jframza
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:56pmAt last!!!!, this is the “camel.’s nose under the tent” of double standard URBAN racist speech. Whites have “bitten their tongue” when it came to using the same language commonly used as blacks! The “gloves are off”! Let’s see how long this ghetto language is tolerated now!
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:40pmWhat an horrible way to try to prove a point. Rather than start your argument by mixing gas and matches try a little tact. I think asking if Jay Z is the kind of person you want managing and being the face of a basketball team due to his past and some of the sexist lyrics he has written in the past is a good argument.
Jay Z is a smart man and made a ton of money beause of it, just like Rush. However words have consequences and what you have said publicly(which you did to make money) will come back to haunt you.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:00pmeffem…Ghetto hood rats don’t actually take up much of my time..
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:29pmMaybe Mushnik just tells it like it is. In other words, call a spade a spade.
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 9:29amWould that be the ace of spades?
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:25pmStay classy NY Post! Another Murdoch rag showing the true colors of the racist right.
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:45pm@SPQR1,
Your “high cheek bones” are showing.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:00pmYou are as classy as ever. You had 0 class yesterday & you have 0 class today.
I have seen and heard of white kids you had many black friends (not just token black friends), listened to black music & were totally involved in black culture. Their black friends will say nword this & nword that. After being steeped in that atmosphere, you know that white kid is going to say the nword.
And then many indignant black racists will go “what did you say?”. To add insult to injury the lily
white race baiters/ will come out of the woodwork & berate the unfortunate kid.
So we know exactly what Mushnik means. He wants to put an end to the double standard of what people can say.
Report Post »Spqr1
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:56pmWalkabout: You missed the whole thing, it’s not about double standard, or political correctness, it’s about context and intent. It’s about being an a-hole.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:02pmSPQR1
Not buying it. This rapping controversy about the lyrics has gone on for better than 2 decades.
It has been pointed out that more than 1 rapper has had a middle class up bringing. the point is that the language is all affected & not real. It is all for shock value & to make money.
Jay-A is a fraud.
I see it really hypocritical of the left to defend Jay-Z’s right to be crude, but to get outraged over someone satirizing him.
Report Post »Ars21689
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:24pmThere’s nothing racist about criticizing rap music for having crude, violent, ignorant, and misogynistic lyrics idiot.
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:25pmAs an ex-wrestler, i’ve never liked Mushnik. He’s been known to bend the truth with the best of them but, that being said, his article about the nets is spot on. Kudos, Mushnik! ( never thought i’d say that ).
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:21pmHmmm…….someone remind me why Rush wasn’t allowed to become an owner of a NFL team? I’m becoming numb to the hypocrisy.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:20pmYeah, this is totally a nod to Jay-Z’s lyrics. Though the columnist went way too far using that language and should’ve allowed himself the luxury of expressing himself in a much more tolerant and respectful way. I heard Jay-Z, upon holding his new baby girl, promised to never use the B word again in a song. Weird how he never realized ALL baby girls came from a woman’s womb, just like what happened with Beyonce! Duh!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 6:04pmJay-Z is just like a Howard Stern. A shock jock.
Outside of shocking people, what talent does he have? How would he make money?
Report Post »OpenCarry
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:15pmRacially Insensitive — O give me a break — what a crock — Truth hurts — go ghetto all the way….Proud of the Post Writer — its about time someone shoved the gutter vermin back….
Report Post »chips1
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:14pmSounds like something Chris Rock would use in his routine. I have no problem pointing out the ignorant things coming out of Obama type people.
Report Post »AverageBear
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:32pmThe language is offensive or it is not. The deliverer is irrelevant.
I share the dream that people will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
When did that become a racist dream?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:13pmHe’s just elevating the rhetoric to match the divisiveness in the country. What a great leader we have who does absolutely nothing to bring our country together and allows this to continue! He is surely no MLK, Jr.!
The craziest part is that The Big Zero needs whites to vote for him to win. I guess he thinks the rank & file Dems are just too dumb and/or are indoctrinated to “the cause”.
Report Post »jg2pto
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:12pmSounds like a perfectly reasonable question to ask. Maybe Jayz can get the new team to sell fried chicken, watermelon, and malt liquor to go along with the new urban settings.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 5:05pmAnd the problem with this is…..? I’m thinking the PC police will now make sure that this guy has “99 problems and a b**** ain’t one”……
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