Racing together at the Final Four

Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky has brushed off the obscenity and racial slur that Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison directed at him during a postgame news conference at the Final Four. Harrison muttered 'F*** that n****' into a live microphone when another player was asked a question about Kaminsky after Kentucky lost 71-64 to the Badgers Saturday. The loss ruined the Wildcats' undefeated season; they finished 38-1. Harrison has since apologized for his comment. 'He reached out to me, we talked about it, [I'm] over it,' Kaminsky told reporters Saturday. 'Nothing needs to be made out of it.' I agree. As long as Harrison, who is black, was using it in its reclaimed sense, of course nothing more will need to be made out of it. But if Harrison were white, then he shouldn't have used that word, be it the one ending in -er or the one ending in -a.