After working with Chappell, Common, Alicia, and Kanye, John Mayer thought it was high time he offended all of them collectively and unequivocally with one ignorant, self-indulgent blow of his continuously nonsensical yet equally offensive mouth. Just in case you didn’t hear, Mayer’s full quote (in which he discusses whether he’s a ‘douche bag’) from Playboy’s Q&A reads:
First of all, is this man illiterate? Like, what the fuck is he talking about? Mayer goes on to dig himself a deeper grave with his remarks concerning his views on black women versus white women.
When asked, “Do black women throw themselves at you?” Mayer replies:
Ok so David Duke is the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a strong believer in both racial segregation and white separatism and your trying to tell me that this is your dick, John Mayer? I must applaud you for being both racially and sexually degrading in one moronic swoop but really are you trying to pop some kind of sick-ass joke ‘cause I don’t get it. How about this, you are a vile, ignorant, self-indulgent, irrelevant ‘star’ whose most obvious purpose in this life is to demonstrate that posing as a self proclaimed intellectual, ‘soul’ music playing, celebrity-dating hipster, is even more hypocritical and revolting than it sounds given your obvious lack of basic social norms.
Just so we’re clear, given America’s diabolical history with slavery, when a Caucasian person uses the word ‘nigger’, they are historically, emotionally, and socially ignorant of their surroundings as well as insensitive to the fact that their slur directly associates their character to rape, slaughtered babies, burning crosses, and human savagery. Reclamation of the word as a neutral term in black culture was attested first in the American South, then later (1968) in the Northern, urban-based Black Power Movement. As such, since African-Americans were the body of individuals who, in this case, historically received race-based persecution, the same connotations do not arise when stated from their lips, as it would be asinine to associate the abuser’s behavior with the jargon of the abused unless as an apparent victim. Furthermore, the issue of ‘fairness’ in relation to ‘nigger-utilization’ is a moot desire that ignores the purpose of its role because, as any disenfranchised somebody trying to make the best out of a horrifying embarrassment will tell you, ‘nigger’ is not a privilege that Caucasians can’t utter, like being locked out of the cool kids club-house, it is an attempt at unification in the face of the shared historic experience of torture.
Lastly, it does not matter whether the given Caucasian individual saying the word ‘nigger’ happens to be friends with black people (this, in fact, may make it worse) because no matter how ‘down’ the Caucasian individual in question is, the blasphemous degradation will ultimately only serve to annihilate any possibility of real friendship between sensible individuals of different socially constructed race boxes. So, to be clear, white people using the word ‘nigger’ remind everyone (including deservedly offended black people, no matter how ‘cool’ you are with them) of white masters, KKK members, and bigots.
So as to depict all sides, Mayer tried to cop the plea via twitter writing:
“Re: using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged.”
About a half an hour later on Twitter, Mayer added to his apology:
“I think it’s time to stop trying to be so raw in interviews…it’s gotten out of hand and I’ve created somewhat of a monster. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it. Again, because I don’t want anyone to think I’m equivocating: I should have never said the word and I will never say it again.”
Mayer sat for this Playboy interview weeks ago, where was his apology or retraction then? My point is, I don’t think Mayer was trying to be ‘raw’, I think he was just being himself and regretted being open about what he believes after (and only after) outrage ensued. It seems, John Mayer, that you have not even a shred of common sense. You are not bright, you are not clever and I really wish with all my might that based on this deserved public slander you never do an interview or open your boorish, deluded mouth, ever again. If, and only if, you shut up will I have any peace.
