NY Post Writer Phil Mushnick Proposes Racist Nicknames for the Brooklyn Nets

I am willing to bet this guy has never criticized Donald Sterling in an article.

This kind of straightforwardness is actually kind of funny in the same way as a kick to the balls.
Not that I agree with anything he says tho.

As an sports team owner in the US, you don’t want your team to polarize in a limited market. Take the Utah Jazz for example. You don’t see to many dudes (of any ethnicity) rock their Merch in any type of urban scenario. You either love or hate them.
Same with the LA Raiders of the ’80s. As soon as NWA rocked their stuff, they were a “Gangster-Team” and so was all their Merch.
If I was the Nets owner, the only questions would be: how can I “Chicago Bulls” my team? Do I need a Jordan Area success to do so? Bulls stuff is not limited to any one sub-culture… or country, for that matter.
With Jay-Z, as successful he is, putting his signature on merchandise, you run the risk that his image will transcend on the whole team.
Personally I like the simple logos, and clean cut approach the Nets put out. I’m not so sure, though, if that even applies to half the folks in New Jersey.
I think that is the direction Mushnick was aiming for. But if you are a paid writer, you should be able to express yourself in a more tolerable way…

I might be ignorant of the issue, but for me it looks like the guy just played with Jay Z’s lyrics (maybe ignorantly). I saw it as mocking Jay Z and gangsta hip hop lyrics, and stupid because it touches too many sensitive spots. But I don’t see it as a racist attack or implying racist views. Maybe I am too charitable with the interpretation… In the same article he writes defending Amar’e and Tiger Woods. I don’t know, it does not look like a race hate rant to me.

To me, Jay stands for:
1) Joining the illuminati
2) Disrespecting women (oops, I meant to say B*&%%hes, Hoes etc
3) Using drug money to build the ROC (he talks about in his songs all the time)
I could list more but I’m watching Frasier…

Just another racist bastard looking for any “angle” to fit in his devilish way of thinking. Not surprised coming from the same rag that had the infamous Obama editorial illustration.

oh please, as if any rich person in the usa or anywhere regardless of ethnicity would have ever gotten rich without getting his or hers hands dirty. thats just the nature of capitalism.

Again if you think other people’s stupid behavior justifies your own stupid behavior then you are a mental midget.
Stop making stupid rationalizations for bad behavior.
And John F. Kennedy’s daddy was a drug dealer. Bootlegging=pushing weight.

Teddy on point as usual. I mean, that’s really the underlying issue. And Mike from Spain, let me just say that you don’t know a damn thing. A man from one of the most racist countries on Earth, (speaking from experience), speaking on what black people should and should not be offended by is hilarious to me. Speaking on race relations in a country from which you definitely are not is pretty bold. Not surprising though.

I read somehwere that jay-z only wones about 10 % or less of the nets anyways… the fact that he thinks they chose those colors because of jay is ridiculous

AND…..for all of you who feel that Jay Z and the industry he decided to make “PART” of his career, is based on B!tches and H0es, as well as saying the N word in songs, you all are just plain ignorant. Sure he COULD use different words to express himself, but then so could ANYONE else that writes/raps or sings. Actors COULD take on different roles, Donald Trump COULD get a new hair piece. Point is, taking one aspect of someones life and trying to twist it and say “this is what the industry is all about” is totally wrong. Especially when you have a multi talented person such as Jay Z. Music, clothes, fragrances, producer, writer, owner, are some (and not all) that Jay Z is about. Well thats what he does to bring in his money….doesnt necessarily mean thats what hes ABOUT. ONLY Jay, and those closely associated to him KNOW what he is ABOUT! To even speak on what YOUR perception is is simply YOUR opinion. NOTHING MORE!

Since when was having money, women, and guns controversial in America?

Do you think Ted Nugent doesn’t have guns, money and women (albeit dirty swamp ladies with B.O and a Confederate flag tattooed on their a$$)?

@Ldub no the whole MAINSTREAM Hip Hop industry is really actually all the same. AGAIN, white folks in general never face oppression that’s why they easily say ignorant stuff publicly.

While the words were harsh, certainly not poetic, they ring more of a grumpy old man who is lamenting his good old days while reciting the age-old “the world is going to hell in a hand basket and this generation is leading the way”, mantra than one of a hardened racist.

In the meanwhile, Jay-Z is going to have to deal with a new reality: Build your empire by romanticizing the lyrical vernacular of the ghetto-life, and every now and then, the chickens are going to come home to roost–just to remind you.

http://blazetelevisionnetwork.com/blog/ny-post-writer-to-jay-z-name-the-nets-the-ns-stay-true-to-your-art-form

charliewinning…. Jay Z is racist? really? that’s what you took out of this? incredible.

Mr. Mushnick is so stupid.
Jay-Z isn’t idealising the ghetto life nor does he talk like a gangster all the time. He is an artist, that uses an artform and the language of the ghettos/ streets to tell stories about the life there.
It’s like Mushnick questions the american dream, that everybody can achieve everything. I think he is just jealous, that a black guy can do what Jay-Z does. That makes him a racist.

@Speedy -> I hadn’t seen that angle, it makes sense… I stand somewhat corrected, I thought Munchnik just found the language in the songs questionable, you imply that the fact is he doesn’t like Jay Z’s success. The way you put it, Mucnhnik is racist. Is being blind to the intent of Jay Z’s songs racism, or does racism make Munchnik blind to the intent?

hahaha

@Speedy you clearly have never been to the projects, people don’t consistently refer to girls as b**ches. Artform doesn’t justify aiding in destroying the mindset of black youth.

Rap music is about whatever the artist wants it to be about. How that influences you to stereotype an entire race because of it, I’ll never know, especially when the majority of people buying these records about sex and drugs are white… As well as the majority of people actually buying, selling, and using drugs.
It’s not like other musical genres use phrases like “Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘N Roll”… Oh wait.

his ‘joke’ would of worked 20 years ago if Tupac had owned the Nets

what a tool

Nobody is fighting racism with racism here, I have no intent of degrading any one race by my comments. Teddy are u kidding me…drug sells are at high rates throughout black donated communities but yes white folk buy the music but black folks bootleg it lol.

The majority owner is Mikhail, so why not just call them Red Army and get red uniforms?

LOL@Diesel, you seem upset. Tarzan is an idiot, but you wack if you think Whites face racism in masses.