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CatWoman

(79,302 posts) Sun May 6, 2012, 03:57 PM May 2012

NY Post Writer: Brooklyn Nets Should Be Called 'New York N-----s' Because Of Jay-Z Ownership

Phil Mushnick, NY Post Writer: Brooklyn Nets Should Be Called 'New York N-----s' Because Of Jay-Z Ownership

A New York sportswriter is in hot water after writing that the Brooklyn Nets should change their name to the "New York N------s" because they are co-owned by Jay-Z.

Phil Mushnick, who writes for the New York Post, has apparently been a long-time critic of the rapper's role in the franchise. In a Friday column, he trashed Jay-Z's choices for the team's new uniforms:

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!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/phil-mushnick-jay-z-nets-racist-new-york-post_n_1477927.html

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NY Post Writer: Brooklyn Nets Should Be Called 'New York N-----s' Because Of Jay-Z Ownership (Original Post) CatWoman May 2012 OP

Wow, they aren't even bothering to hide liberalhistorian May 2012 #1

And crickets since then. Appalling. Faygo Kid May 2012 #2

And who makes 9-mm hollow-tip bullets? ellisonz May 2012 #3

Is he trying to say he meant a different N- word? bettyellen May 2012 #9

both sides need to bury that fucking word. I grew up with it all around me and roguevalley May 2012 #10

How about calling it ..... fuddyduddy May 2012 #4

All shell casings are hollow -- but have no tips. immoderate May 2012 #5

What else can you expect from a Rupert Murdoch owned publication? I can remember when they libinnyandia May 2012 #6

Unbelievable! Scurrilous May 2012 #7

The racists are becoming more brazen by the day malaise May 2012 #8

liberalhistorian

(20,818 posts)

1. Wow, they aren't even bothering to hide

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:04 PM

May 2012

it anymore, are they? They're really coming out of the woodwork and out from under their rocks. If I were the paper's owner this fucker would be fired as of yesterday. Pronto.

Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts)

2. And crickets since then. Appalling.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:04 PM

May 2012

Looks like he got away with it. Just a matter of time before Rush finally uses the word he has longed to say for so long, and he is likely to get away with it, too. Sickening.

Well, it's spring. Under these circumstances, it's time for Granny's tonic. I think I need a double right about now.

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

3. And who makes 9-mm hollow-tip bullets?

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:08 PM

May 2012

Not the Brooklyn Community. If he wants to talk about cultural slavery, let's talk abou the gun culture in this country that just can't help itself but to try to overturn and undermine meaningful gun control in this country. This racist shot himself in the foot with that remark.

UPDATE: Mushnick responded to the furore surrounding his column later on Friday. Writing to sports site Bob's Blitz, he said that there had been "obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations" of his words.

"Jay-Z profits from the worst and most sustaining self-enslaving stereotypes of black-American culture and I'M the racist?" he continued. "Some truths, I guess, are just hard to read, let alone think about."

This clown can go f--k himself.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

9. Is he trying to say he meant a different N- word?

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #3)

Sun May 6, 2012, 05:36 PM

May 2012

The Post has been toilet paper for years.
I only see commuters who are top afraid to actually live in NYC reading it. And the paper plays up to their fears 24/7. Bleeech.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

10. both sides need to bury that fucking word. I grew up with it all around me and

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #3)

Sun May 6, 2012, 06:20 PM

May 2012

I LOATHED IT THEN and I LOATHE IT NOW. Jay-z had better man up and drop that word. And the other guy? He needs fired. Yes, guy, you are a racist. Jay-Z? You're a dumb ass for helping to make a slave master word common place again. Fuck. That. Word.

fuddyduddy

(27 posts)

4. How about calling it .....

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:12 PM

May 2012

Бруклин сети as in Brooklyn Nets in Russian - the majority owner is the billionaire Prokhorov.

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

5. All shell casings are hollow -- but have no tips.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:15 PM

May 2012

They'll have to clean that up for the logo.

--imm

libinnyandia

(1,374 posts)

6. What else can you expect from a Rupert Murdoch owned publication? I can remember when they

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:24 PM

May 2012

ran the cartoon of Obama as a chimpanzee shot by cops. Nobody with any decency would pay for that rag and anybody advertising in it should be boycotted.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)

7. Unbelievable!

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:41 PM

May 2012

malaise

(269,004 posts)

8. The racists are becoming more brazen by the day

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 04:42 PM

May 2012

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