{"id":14412,"date":"2012-05-07T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14412"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:32:08","slug":"n-y-post-writer-brooklyn-nets-should-be-called-new-york-niers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14412","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Post Writer: Brooklyn Nets Should Be Called \u2018New York Ni**Ers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post columnist <strong>Phil Mushnick<\/strong> provoked outrage last week as he used a racial slur in an insensitive rant against the Brooklyn Nets and their co-owner rapper Jay-Z.<\/p>\n<p>Opining that the team should consider changing their name to the \u2018New York Ni**ers\u2019 in what one can only assume is meant to be a dig at<strong> Jay-Z\u2019s<\/strong> use of the n-word in his lyrics, <strong>Mushnick<\/strong> argues that since the team has a new \u201curban\u201d locale, it should get the full \u201c<strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As long as the Nets are allowing<strong> Jay-Z<\/strong> to call their marketing shots \u2014 what a shock that he chose Black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new \u201curban\u201d home \u2014 why not have him apply the full <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Why the Brooklyn Nets, ,when they can be the New York N\u2014\u2014\u2014s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B\u2014\u2014hes or Hoes. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be <strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> hip? Then go all the way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mushnick\u2019s<\/strong> comments have already fueled a firestorm on Twitter, with numerous commentators in the sports world calling for him to be fired by the Post immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick provoked outrage last week as he used a racial slur in an insensitive rant against the Brooklyn Nets and their co-owner rapper Jay-Z. Opining that the team should consider changing their name to the \u2018New York Ni**ers\u2019 in what one can only assume is meant to be a dig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}