Barry Bonds is wrong — they do “build stuff for blacks.”

If the self-absorbed San Francisco Giants slugger ever lowered himself to walk through the public entrance at SBC Park, he would notice the nine-foot statue dedicated to his godfather, Willie Mays.

And that area of San Francisco Bay into which Bonds routinely slams home runs, that’s called McCovey Cove, in honor of another great African-American giant — Willie McCovey.

In fact, as Bonds someday will find out once his Hall-of-Fame career has ended, they’ll even build some kind of “stuff” to honor a pompous, rude, mean-spirited twit because he was a hell of a baseball player.

If Bonds thinks Boston is “too racist” a place for him to play, as he told the Boston Globe this weekend, that’s his prerogative.

But to do so while freely admitting that he has no firsthand experience of the city truly displays that ignorance, along with prejudice, has no racial boundaries.

To brand the entirety of any city something as hurtful as “racist” is just wrong. Boston has its problems, but so does every metropolitan area.

One has to wonder if Bonds counts the 46 percent of nonwhites in Boston and 17.4 percent in the Boston metro area (according to the 2000 census) as “too racist” also?

Those are the kinds of things you should think about before making a declaration as damning as Bonds did.

Four years ago, Atlanta pitcher John Rocker was suspended by baseball commissioner Bud Selig for making racial and ethnic remarks about foreigners, homosexuals and minorities in a magazine interview that, as Selig said, “offended practically every element of society.”

Selig also ordered Rocker to undergo psychological counseling.

Bonds only targeted Boston.

No word from Selig on whether Bonds is going to have to sit out some games or visit a shrink.

I don’t think Bonds should be suspended, just as I didn’t think Rocker should have been suspended.

Freedom of speech incorporates stupidity.

That being said, allowing you to say stupid things does not mean an entity like baseball doesn’t have the right to use its “good of the game” clause to discipline actions or words that clearly hurt its standing with the public.

And given the precedent he already set with Rocker, Selig should explain why Bonds is different.

I can’t understand why Bonds has been given a virtual pass on statements that are racially inflammatory at best and racist at worst.