Phil Mushnick knows we're awash in race hypocrisy. Do you?

America's last real sports columnist took a shot [Oops!] at the soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets and what promises to be a new low in marketing thuggery to young white suburban boys. Naturally, he was called a racist.

Just as naturally, the name-callers conveniently ignored Mr. Mushnick's long career that is totally bereft of racism. I'm guessing Phil realizes these ass-clowns [the real racists, that is] are merely using the ultimate modern slur to protect their future bottom line.

I'm also betting Phil doesn't give a rat's ass.


Here's the offending snippet from a May 4 column entitled...



Don't rely on media to evaluate bad behavior


Nets on Jay-Z track
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!

“I guess I won’t need my color TV anymore now that the Nets will be wearing black and white,’’ writes reader John Lynch.

And reader David Distefano now wonders what’s left for the Nets to choose as “their alternate third-uniform to sell during nationally televised games.”