In the struggle between Golden Opportunity and Too Late Now, Too Late has become the prohibitive favorite.
Kentucky student-athlete Andrew Harrison, on a national stage Saturday, provided a golden opportunity with his muttered assessment of Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky: "F–k that n—-r."
That comment became an overnight media sensation. But that's all it lasted — overnight. One and done, to borrow an expression.
Report it, then run! Not for a second should the media, frightened to be branded racist by the shallow, the hopelessly cool and the selectively indignant, take advantage of the latest golden opportunity to advocate common sense and common decency. Some outrages are best quickly dropped or ignored.
Young Harrison offered us another chance to ask the who, what and why of the N-word's return, and why, once sentenced to solitary isolation, it has been freed.
Harrison could have fueled the latest demand among politicians, preachers, professors, police, political scientists and populists that no matter who's speaking it or rapping it, a slur so vile that it was almost dead as a matter of great-riddance, has been restored — and that, we could all agree, must stop!
But perversely, there hasn't been a first mass demand for such opposition, let alone another one.
"N—-r" isn't being spoken and rapped within cautionary tales, historical, or Mark Twain literary context, but either as a black-to-black putdown/threat/boast — recorded then sold as entertainment — and reflexively, indiscriminately spoken among blacks, 10-years-olds and up.
Where is everyone on this? Wherever they are, they're not out front, as this latest golden opportunity is already gone with the wind.
John CalipariPhoto: Getty Images
It's interesting that Kentucky coach John Calipari would explain and excuse his team's postgame misconduct after their only loss as being representative of what "kids" do. Exactly. Black kids are now prompted, encouraged to profanity and to call one another "n—-s." But I'm white, thus I can't write that. That would make me a racist. It's not about wrong or right; it's about black or white. And that's crazy.
Where were all the media-op activist black preachers, politicians and social police the last week, those who would allow "n—-r" to be resurrected among blacks, but only blacks? That's not merely backwards, that's crazy backwards!
Crazy, too, is that Calipari said Harrison will not be disciplined. Given that Calipari said he was surprised Harrison returned for his sophomore season in the first place, and that he has declared for this NBA draft, what discipline? Ban him from Kentucky's first two games next season?
A Jesse Jackson still commands the respect and attention of our President and media despite calling New York "Hymietown." But Donald Sterling, half-shot 80-year-old, is sentenced to hell by the same President and media after whispering a racist thought into the ear of his 30-year-old, see-through girlfriend.
It's crazy. The N-word wasn't allowed in my parents' household, or in my household. But my daughters had it hammered into their ears by blacks. They came to figure that they shouldn't use the N-word, not because it's wrong — a slur above slurs — but because they're white! That's crazy, no?
Anyway, NBC News's "Today" on Wednesday featured veteran rapper Flo Rida grabbing at his crotch while he and his troupe performed.
Flo RidaPhoto: WireImage
When he was done, Matt Lauer was delighted to share the stage with Flo Rida, one of scores of pro forma vulgar, violent, gun-loving, women-trashing, cash-waving "artists" who would never commercially refer to a black adult male as anything better than a "n—a."
Back to basketball: A public apology attributed to Harrison was a thoroughly modern contingency job — it was thrown back at us, as if he had been misunderstood. Said Harrison: "When I realized how this could be perceived … "
Perceived? The N-word? Or F-word? Is either open to right versus wrong usage? If a word synonymous with the worst of American race history and society — a word with no upside other than that it was nearly dead — hadn't been revived, then returned, we never would have to worry about how it's perceived.
No bad idea is ignored on TV
Clearly, network executives assign folks to develop, then implement, bad ideas. And they have folks assigned to monitor, then copy, others' bad ideas.
For some ants-in-its-pants reason, ESPN has removed its MLB score box from an unobtrusive, upper-corner, useful spot, and placed it over the infield, between the mound and third base. Why do we have to explain to an all-sports TV giant why that's a rotten idea?
And get that "K-Box" off the catcher during live play! Let us watch the game!
As for Monday's NCAA Final on CBS, again we have women not normally disposed to watch sports asking "silly" questions to which there are no good answers. Terry "Queen of Hewig" Andreas had a couple:
1) Why were each school's fans shown applauding after their team scored? Doesn't it stand to reason — and the audio — that they would?
2) Given that the game was televised, why was someone, at all times, talking?
Finally, reader Mike Harrington was left confused by CBS' announcement that "The AT&T Halftime Show is brought to you by AT&T."
When did it take "the presence of mind" to perform the expected? A wide receiver catches a tipped pass because, "he had the presence of mind" to do so. Was he supposed to swat it away?
On Wednesday, YES studio highlights man Bob Lorenz reported that after a great catch, the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton "had the presence of mind" to throw to first to double off the Braves' Nick Markakis. As opposed to what, throwing the ball into the bullpen?
Singleton's pickoff move good as Dickey's
Ken SingletonPhoto: Anthony J. Causi
In the bottom of the first, inning of the Blue Jays-Yankees game on Wednesday, YES's Ken Singleton said knuckleballers — perhaps all slow-ballers — such as R.A. Dickey generally have good pickoff moves.
A few pitches later, Jacoby Ellsbury was picked off first base.
Mike Francesa, with authority: Dickey would be bombed by the Yankees on Wednesday night. He can't pitch in the cold. Dickey went 6 ¹/₃ innings and allowed one earned run.
Reader Mike Panzella wanted to watch Wednesday's Masters' Par-3 contest on ESPN, but found that it was "a show about how Tiger Woods invented fatherhood."
On Thursday, ESPN showed how fast and hard — very fast, very hard for a guy, even without a bad back — Woods swung a 9 iron — by showing it in slow motion.
If only those NBAers caught up in that Manhattan stabbing had chosen to turn in at a decent hour, say, 3:45 a.m.
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