No outrage whatsoever.

No newspaper columnists calling for him to be suspended.

No TV commentators calling for him to be fined.

An owner and a coach who have essentially remained silent about comments so heinously offensive that they have painted an entire city as the racist, redneck capital of the country.

A police video from a November arrest was made public a few days ago and it shows Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Khalif Barnes profanely portraying the city he plays in as some sort of cross-burning throwback to the days when Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan ran rampant throughout the South.

After being arrested, Barnes referred to Jacksonville as a “hick town” and called the Jacksonville sheriff’s deputy who arrested him a “white KKK devil who hates all colored people.”

As he sat handcuffed in the back of a police car, Barnes railed: “It’s all racist. That’s all that was right there. All racist. This is unbelievable, man, unbelievable being a pro athlete in Jacksonville. I can’t wait to get out of here. Can’t wait.”

You’re probably asking yourself what minor offense Barnes was targeted for by this so-called “racist” cop?

Oh, it was just a tiny matter of Barnes’ 2007 silver Mercedes being clocked at 101 mph in a 60-mph zone. And did we mention Barnes failed a field sobriety test and had a blood alcohol level, according to police, 1 1â2 times Florida’s legal driving limit?

This just in: When you’re driving 100 mph, you’re going to get pulled over – whether you’re a black NFL player or a white professional golfer.

Somehow, I don’t think Martin Luther King would have backed Khalif Barnes on this one. I don’t believe King would have ever stood at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered this impassioned speech: “I have a dream where spoiled-rotten NFL players will get a free pass for driving their luxury sedans drunk at over 100 mph.”

Is there anything more harmful to the civil rights cause than professional athletes using “racism” as a crutch for their own sense of entitlement? And isn’t there enough real racism in the world without creating it just to try and camouflage your own bad behavior?

Maybe this is why the general population is getting more and more turned off by professional athletes who seem to care nothing about the fans who pay their salaries. That “hick town” Barnes talks about has made him a rich man. Next time Barnes runs out on the field in Jacksonville, he might want to check out all the white faces cheering for him and paying hundreds of dollars a ticket so he can make millions of dollars a year.

He has portrayed all those fans as rednecks and racists, and, yet, nobody seems to care. Not the media. Not the team. Not the league.

Where’s the outrage? Where’s the anger? Where’s the discipline?

Fuzzy Zoeller nearly had his career ruined for telling one bad joke. And here you have an NFL player invoking the most atrocious, violent images of the segregated South and he gets to pass go and collect $2 million.

We have all lampooned Jacksonville’s reputation as perhaps the biggest small town in America. But there’s a difference between making fun and spewing hate. No way should Khalif Barnes slide on this one.

Who cares if he was already suspended for one lousy game last November after the drunken-

driving arrest? There needs to be further ramifications not just for what he put into his body, but for what came out of his mouth.

Sometimes, words actually do speak louder than actions.