In case you missed it, Phil Mushnick weighed in again on Jay-Z. However, the New York Post columnist was more politically correct Sunday than in a previous rant about the rapper.
He wrote:
Nets point man, marketing strategist and part-owner Jay-Z last week said he fully supported President Obama’s reversal to support same-sex marriages. Discriminating against gays, Jay-Z told CNN, is “no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination, plain and simple.”
Agreed.
Of course, CNN didn’t dare ask Jay-Z why his rap songs have included hateful, vulgar references to homosexuals, including a Spanish slur for gays (not to mention violent, unprintably crude slurs of blacks and young women).
Yeah, I know, it’s “cultural.” Good for business, too. But be assured: Despite all the hateful lyrics he raps about women, gays, African-American men — how he makes his living — Jay-Z stands strongly against all forms of discrimination.
Compare that to what he wrote on May 4:
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!
Although I’m sure Mushnick heard from Jay-Z’s fans again, Sunday reference to the rapper didn’t trigger nearly the firestorm that resulted from the first column. Guess it’s all about how you phrase things, right?
I’m assuming Mushnick as an array of columns on why convicted felon George Steinbrenner was unfit to be Yankees owner because of his felony criminal record? And I’m assuming Mushnick realizes the inherent hypocrisy in attacking Jay-Z for making money with strong words, the very thing Mushnick himself does in printed form.