NY Post Writer: Jay-Z’s Nets Should Be Called “The New York N—–s”
NY Post sportswriter Phil Mushnick is firing back at critics after he suggested that the Nets should be renamed “The New York N—–s” in honor of co-owner Jay-Z.
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!
After Twitter blew up over the piece, including comments from high profile figures like Questlove of The Roots, Mushnick did not back down. He claimed his work was “mischaracterized,” and that he was not supporting the racist language, but criticizing Jay-Z for profiting “from the worst and most sustaining self-enslaving stereotypes of black-American culture.”
Ok, so Mushnick was criticizing the misogyny and glorification of violence in hip-hop culture. Maybe I can buy that. But he still did it in the stupidest and most insensitive way possible.
It’s difficult to mischaracterize the portion of his column that dealt with Jay-Z, which is scarcely longer than the excerpt above. No evidence, no explanation, just the horribly off-target accusations and sarcasm. Some people are having a serious conversation about the state of hip-hop culture, but Mushnick is not one of them.
And accusing Jay-Z of representing a negative African-American image? The man is a legitimate business mogul and doting father. Mushnick should accept that he wasn’t being a “truth-teller”, but ignorantly opening Pandora’s box with a hacksaw.
What do you think?
[via Huffington Post]
I think they’re both bad examploes of men, end of story.
@andrew
Chip Stern comment to Mush’s article on NY Post:
“As a fellow descendant of lost Hebrew tribes, I am certain your outrage would be telling if someone proposed a team logo for the Crown Heights Jew B*ast*rds, and shrugged it off as all in good fun. I long suspected you were a pompous, self-righteous d-bag, Phil, and must confess I find an odd sense of peace descending upon my kike-ish shoulders to discover how truly flatulent a blowhard you are.”
The nBA is 90% black dork.if he has such a problem with the n-word being used by blacks then he would be addressing a bigger problem than Jay-z.Hes mad like you hat a black man has made it in a world full of people like you who hate them and tried to oppress them from every angle and we still cant be stopped. Hurts doesnt it.You live in a fantasy world thats why the leading mental illness for white people is Alzheimers. Forgot more than you can remember. Were all peole and white pople cant handle that lol…